Tidal Hifi via Bluetooth vs via Apple CarPlay

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curtpenn

Discussion Starter · Aug 22, 2018

I have a new-to-me '18 coupe with 12-speaker Bose system. I commute about 2 hours per day and prior to this car have just been listening to my own playlists via bluetooth while in the car. Usually check Waze before leaving the house, too, but don't normally run nav while driving. So, I seem to have difficulty getting CUE to always "see" or find Tidal when I first start the car. It often wants to start iTunes instead, or just nothing happens even though I always have Tidal running on my phone before I get in. Not sure if there's something I'm doing wrong?

I'm also wondering if anyone thinks they hear a difference in sound quality between bluetooth streamed music versus something wired via CarPlay or played from another source such as USB or SD card.

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pissedoffwookiee

· #2 · Aug 23, 2018

wired and SD Card, playing high bitrate, high quality or lossless music files will beat bluetooth in most cases (depending on generation of bluetooth profiles used and codecs used over bluetooth) .....the latest higher quality bluetooth profiles will almost always land on CE products like headphones and music players before car electronics....since the time to getting tech into the car manufacturing pipeline is so long compared to Consumer Electronics.

because of this it's almost guaranteed that your tidal is getting compressed to fit within the bluetooth streaming profiles bandwidth limitation, regardless of how good the tidal music started.

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duolly

· #3 · Jan 20, 2020

Hey, if you worry about the quality of Tidal music will be changed via Bluetooth or Apple CarPlay. There is an alternative way for you to keep the original audio quality of Tidal music. It is the tool called DRmare Tidal Music Converter, which can convert the audio to common audio formats and then you can save them to your computer as the local files. You can customize the output audio formats and other parameters for Tidal music as you like. After that, you can transfer the files to other devices for playback.

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Lucy Ann

· #4 · 12 d ago

duolly said:
Hey, if you worry about the quality of Tidal music will be changed via Bluetooth or Apple CarPlay. There is an alternative way for you to keep the original audio quality of Tidal music. It is the tool called DRmare Tidal Music Converter, which can convert the audio to common audio formats and then you can save them to your computer as the local files. You can customize the output audio formats and other parameters for Tidal music as you like. After that, you can transfer the files to other devices for playback.

I prefer using the Tunelf Tidal music converter. It converts songs at a faster speed. The downloaded files can be moved to any device for offline playback. What's more, Tunelf even allows to retain original sound quality from both Tidal Free, Tidal HiFi and Tidal Plus plans.

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