He sounds confident in Tidal's star power: We asked the CEO of Jay Z's streaming company whether he was concerned by the threat of Apple's new streaming service. Will fans continue to pay £19.99 per month to have videos slightly earlier than everyone else? That remains to be seen. Minutes after Beyoncé uploaded a video of her playing a new song (filmed by her husband Jay Z), it was available to watch on YouTube. But the problem with exclusive content is that it simply doesn't stay exclusive content for long. Now, Jay Z is turning Tidal mainstream, consolidating two service (WiMP and Tidal) into one, and introducing a cheaper £9.99 plan.Ĭan Tidal keep its users when Apple launches its own streaming site? It certainly has a chance - fans of Daft Punk, Kanye West and Jay Z's other famous friends are fiercely loyal, and may choose to stay with Tidal. But that price comes from the company's history as a little-known, niche streaming service catered towards well-off audiophiles. Many people were shocked at how expensive Tidal is (it costs £19.99 per month for its HI-FI service). You guys are going to do great things with Beats, but … you know, I don’t have to lose in order for you guys to win, and let’s just remember that. Listen, Jimmy you’re Jimmy Iovine, and you’re Apple, and truthfully, you're great. Here's what he claimed to have said to Jimmy Iovine, co-founder of Beats, which was acquired by Apple last year: Is Jay Z worried about Apple attempting to recruit its own roster of artists to join its service instead of Tidal? If so, he isn't letting on. Kanye West at the Tidal press conference. For the serious music fan with a taste for cutting-edge technology, there's no reason not to scrobble to both Last.fm and Facebook.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Besides, scrobbling to Last.fm lets you enjoy all sorts of hacks and apps that run on your Last.fm profile. If sharing your music habits with Facebook freaks you out, perhaps you'd rather share them to Last.fm, to keep your musical identity separate from your Facebook identity. It continues to scrobble not only from iTunes, but from cloud-based music services. In fact, "scrobbling" to Facebook is so easy that when Facebook added the feature, we called Last.fm the biggest loser in that equation. In that one simple step, you'll start sending your listening history to Facebook, so your friends can see what you've been listening to (unless you turn off Facebook sharing).
All you have to do to send your playback history to your Facebook Timeline is use your Facebook identity to log into a music service. Now, Facebook does pretty much the same thing (except for with iTunes).
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