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This is the best summary I could come up with:

Tidal seems to have decided that there just aren’t enough people willing to pay upward of $20 per month for the highest-possible audio fidelity.

At a high level, it sounds like this new, much simpler subscription model will still include all the perks — high-res FLACs, Dolby Atmos mixes, etc.

Now Tidal is caving and throwing in its large catalog of high-res tracks without demanding extra money on top.

With this move, Tidal could be trying to head off an eventual rollout of the rumored “Supremium” Spotify plan and avoid potential subscriber losses.

Either way, it’s an attempt to remain competitive in the streaming music landscape — or at least to stay relevant.

Tidal laid off 10 percent of its staff in December amid other cuts at parent company Block.

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Does this mean we're stuck with MQA? Or can we still forcibly use FLAC. I was on the lower tier purely to avoid MQA.

Awesome! I've been enjoying Tidal for a few months now, and now that it's starting to learn what I like, I'm starting to like its recommendations as well.

Here's hoping they keep staying on the relatively good side.

Actually this is a good deal. Curation on tidal is good, meaning they have cool playlists handpicked by people. In the past when I used it it was with questionable MQA encoding, which had a lot of controversy. But 24/192khz flac, If you care about audio quality is a better offer than Qobuz.

Can't go wrong for the price. But I think the main driver should be audio quality. Because FLAC files (esp 24/192khz) can be very data hungry, for those who use it mobile only. So you need to be careful with that. You can use lower sample rates and higher bitrate mp3 as well if my memory serves well. But that defeats a bit the purpose of what Tidal stands for

Tidal is still around? I'm impressed

Not surprised, I was fed up with the cost so setup a new account with a Nigerian VPN, only a few pound per month with that method.

Might switch back to a UK account if they make the price more reasonable here.