Music Streaming service TIDAL has launched Live, a new in-app feature for HiFi and HiFi Plus TIDAL subscribers to share live music remotely.
Live allows listeners to come together as groups for a special event, an album release, road trip, or a get-ready-with-me moment.
From TIDAL: “Through music, we are giving fans a way to connect with each other or with other creators, brands, and personalities through simple, one-click sharing”
Live is a new way for fans to share the music they love in-the-moment. This new option makes it easy and convenient for fans to also find and follow music tastemakers.
How To Get Started
To start a Live session, TIDAL subscribers can choose the session name to set the tone for what they’re playing and share a link for others to join. Shareable links to Live sessions let anyone join – from text messages and social media to emails.
- Step One: Be a TIDAL Hi-Fi or Hi-Fi Plus Subscriber
- Step Two: Pick an Opening Track
- Step Three: Tap the Live Icon
- Step Four: Name your session
- Step Five: Share your link so others can join in
- Step Six: Party On!
From Agustina Sacerdote, Global Head of Product at TIDAL: “Through music, we are giving fans a way to connect with each other or with other creators, brands, and personalities through simple, one-click sharing…Using Live offers music fans a simple route to finding new music from other fans in-app or wherever a link is shared. We’re excited to see how Live is used to power moments through sharing music and bringing people together”.
Live is available in the TIDAL app on iOS and Android. TIDAL offers subscribers over 100 million tracks to listen to.
Tip: Subscribers can only start and listen to sessions taking place in the country where their TIDAL account is registered.
TIDAL Curators
The key to providing music selections and organization of each music genre is TIDAL’s team of music curators. Some Live on TIDAL Curators include:
Brad Farberman: Jazz
- Vibe: soul-jazz, jazz-funk, avant-garde jazz
- Bio: Brad has done work in immersive audio and legacy programming at TIDAL, however, he is also a music scribe whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice, JazzTimes, and more. He has also served as an editor at Genius and an editorial assistant at Wax Poetics.
- Brad’s perspective on the key to a great set is: “storytelling. I love when a set starts off big and ends on a mellow note, showcasing the peaks and valleys of an artist or genre.”
Evan Haga: Rock/Indie
- Vibe: Ondie new and old, classic rock, all things punk and punk-adjacent, garage rock, rockabilly, blues-rock, electric blues, vintage jazz-rock.
- Bio: Before joining TIDAL in 2019, Evan was the editor of JazzTimes. During that time, JazzTimes won three ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards, including one for an article he wrote on the confluence of jazz and metal. He has also written for NPR Music, Rolling Stone, the Baltimore Sun, Vinyl Me, Please, Living Blues, and Jazz at Lincoln Center.
- Evan’s perspective on the key to a great set is: “striking a balance between the comfort of familiar sounds and the thrill of discovery.”
Gabriel Szatan: Dance & Electronic
- Vibe: house, techno, jungle, and futuristic club music; noir electro, electro-pop, and disco/funk spanning multiple decades; New Age, ambient, and Zen sounds.
- Bio: Gabriel is from the U.K. and currently lives in New York. He was Boiler Room’s Senior Curator and an editorial staffer for Red Bull Music Academy and Resident Advisor. He has also been a contributor to Pitchfork, The Guardian, Billboard, and other outlets. He’s currently finishing his first book, After Daft, on 21st-century dance music and Daft Punk.
- Gabriel’s perspective on the key to a great set is: “to start strong, know how you’ll eventually wind down to a classy stop, and watch out for tempo leaps song-to-song — then just go with the flow.”
Check out more TIDAL Live Curators for all branches of music ranging from K-pop to Classical, and everything in between.
To stay up on the latest Live sessions and special events, follow TIDAL on Twitter and Instagram.
Tip: Live has limited functionality with third-party devices. Also, subscribers can only start and listen to sessions taking place in the country where their TIDAL account is registered.
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April 8, 2023 at 6:14 am
Hello the House!
Once Tidal bowl drops the Toadsbane that is MQA (a Pox on Blob Stewfart!) I may well give them a try. I have no need for the subject of this informative piece but I can see that it would be enjoyable for a great many folk! Thank you so very much, Sir Robert of Silva!
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