TIDAL

If your friends think of you as a sort of geeky audiophile based on both your love for music and your need of staying up to date with the latest music-related news, then there's a good chance you've heard about TIDAL.

Launched at the end of 2014 (and relaunched in March 2015), the Jay Z-owned streaming service is becoming more and more popular, and for good reason. The service is about "musicians making music," as the famous rapper himself stated at a gathering even before TIDAL's launch, and is backed up by an extensive music catalog with handpicked playlists by Jay Z and Beyoncé, alongside other curated lists from Tidal employees.

Of course, this modern service provides its users with stylish, dark-themed clients for some of the most popular desktop and mobile OSes alike such as Windows, macOS, respectively iOS and Android.

There are two monthy subscription plans to choose from, namely TIDAL Premium and TIDAL HiFi, both with 30-day trials, so you can thoroughly test the service before actually committing to it. It's worth pointing out that in order to activate the trial period, you are required to enter your credit card information.

We'll be talking more about the Windows client which is, by all accounts, a very stylish app that runs and looks right at home on Windows 10.

The application provides you with instant access to all of the service's sections like What's New (Featured), TIDAL Rising, bespoke playlists for relaxation, partying, workout, dinner, and other situations, music videos, and even exclusive movies and shows. As expected, you can also save albums and playlists to your personal collection and even make them available for offline usage.

Regarding TIDAL's Windows client, there's not much we can say, apart from the fact that it's a very stylish and very user-friendly app that is sure to help you enjoy everything this high-quality music-streaming service has to offer.

About the service itself, with songs around the 50 million mark, TIDAL is by no means the "biggest" music streaming service out there, nor should it be.

However, it's quite clear that TIDAL is in a sense more about Hip Hop and R&B, being the brainchild of famous rapper Jay-Z this shouldn't come as much of a surprise. This, and the possibility to attend Tidal X concerts, access Jay Z-curated playlists, as well as listen to some of the other big names of the industry are some of TIDAL's main selling points.