


Anything that Tidal has stored for offline can't be accessed by UAPP, so it will be streamed instead. UAPP cannot, however, play from your downloaded Tidal library. I like that I can create a playlist with tracks from my library as well as streamed tracks from Tidal. At first, I thought the app a bit cumbersome, but now I really enjoy it. This provides the benefit of bypassing Android processing, which the Tidal app cannot do. UAPP, while having a wonky UI, allows you to log in to Tidal and stream through the UAPP app itself. From what I understand, and can hear, it's a small decrease in audio quality, as well as slightly more battery drain. It's not a free app, but I think it's well worth the money.Ĭurrently, all of your audio is being processed by Android software, THEN it's handed over to the Quad DAC for it to do its magic. In addition, some titles "disappear" of the main library for no particular reason, and sometimes they re-"appear" in the library, so maintaining a collection of playlists can be challenging sometimes. Qobuz tends to keep several variations and successive remasters of the same titles, which makes very cumbersome and annoying for the subscribers. Qobuz is a much more "messy" than Tidal, e.g. In practice, the titles released in high resolution are those published by the main music publishers, and they should be roughly be the same for Qobuz and Tidal (or other services, obviously). Those BNF titles have been digitized in a a rushed studio, and they sound terrible, even compared to vinyl rips published on Youtube. Qobuz has a terrible quality control, and many of the so-called "masters" that are on the service are actually poor quality digital captures published by the french national library (BNF), from when it had its entire vinyl library digitized by a Belgian company about 5 or 6 years ago.

There are several apps that bypass the phone's internals, but none that incorporate a lossless music service. The app bypasses any processing by my phone and sends the signal straight to the DAC. The primary reason I chose Tidal is that it integrates with this app: hl=en_US Saw this, didn't realize it was you from the other thread.
