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META: Tidal links will open most subscription services

Hi all! Awesome to have new people participating and contributing! Thanks for helping make this place more than an echo chamber. I just wanted to mention something others might find useful-

Links from Tidal offer gateways to almost every other streaming service when clicked.

Here's an example: Clicking the song linked in this post will bring up this screen:

Tidal Link Clicked

From here you can choose your preferred service and in theory the track starts playing. It isn't perfect, but I thought it was a much nicer implementation of music sharing than a link that's useless to people who don't use a given service.

I would guess the vast majority of people browsing in communities like this are just scanning titles for names that they recognize and don't click links that aren't YouTube or whatever service they subscribe to. Being able to access the majority of streaming services from Tidal links seemed really useful so I thought it was worth mentioning for people who aren't clicking links for services they don't use.

Long-term or in a perfect world it would be great to have a bot that posts a top level comment with some information about the song or the band and links to the relevant services. In the real world I don't have the energy to bother with all that lol.

Anyways I thought it was worth passing on that there's more to Tidal links than it may seem. Keep the garden rocking 🤘

Edited title and post for clarity.

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  • I wanna post some music, but I don't have a tidal account, do I have to have an account or subscription to post a tidal link for folks?