Last September, I decided to try Spotify again once it was announced that lossless quality music was coming to the streaming platform. I hadn’t at that point decided to leave Tidal, as it still had an advantage over Spotify in the highest available streaming quality, going all the way up to 196kHz at 24 bits, compared to Spotify’s 44kHz at 24 bits.
During this period, something happened that had nothing to do with Spotify, and it even brought Qobuz back into the picture as a streaming option.
Music Import/Export
On my return to Spotify, I thought it made sense to pay one of the music transfer services to not just transfer music from Tidal to Spotify, but also from Spotify to Tidal.
I had been a subscriber with Tidal for a couple of years, so a lot of tracks I liked on Tidal went across to Spotify and the list of likes went well over 10,000 with no problem.
I admit, before my switch to Tidal I had been a subscriber with Spotify for several years from 2016, so I had a large number of likes to bring across from Spotify to Tidal. Tidal hit 9,999 and didn’t move. Were all my likes there? Would new likes that I added be listed?
I did a web search and apparently it does add them to your library, but I had lost faith in Tidal and cancelled my subscription at that point.
At the time, Spotify hadn’t rolled out lossless music to my premium account and I wanted to be able to listen to my music at the best quality I could, so I subscribed to Qobuz. I transferred my likes across. Qobuz went over 10,000 with no issues.
Conclusion
Using any system or service is a matter of trust and I stopped using Tidal as I no longer trusted it to keep track of the music I liked.
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Further reading
- Spotify Review 2025: My most recent review of Spotify.