Tidal does not have a limited selection. Who told this you this? Can you give me examples of major artist tidal is missing?
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I'm sorry, I completely misread the intent of your post based on your misleading title. I thought you were asking what people thought was the best and why, not trying to start an argument over those opinions to defend what most think of as an inferior product. Wikipedia (I know, right?) shows that Tidal has a library of around 25 million tracks, which is nearly 17% less than Spotify's 30 million tracks - or in other words, Spotify is at least 20% larger. So while I'm not going to go compare the exact tracklist, but it seems that about 1 in 6 tracks that Spotify has is missing from Tidal. That, and there is a significant difference between the Tidal STREAMING library and the SALES library. So that 25 mil is probably a bit inflated.
Now that I've reread your post, wondering why people hate Tidal, here's the short list, although I'm sure there's more that could be added:
1. The app is absolute garbage. It has a 3.5 Star Rating in the Play Store, with over a 1 in 4 ratings as 1 star. It hasn't been updated since March, so it's basically unsupportd.
2. The services are MAJORLY overpriced
3. Lossless is inconsistent and doesn't work on many (or possibly most) songs
4. The max bitrate for songs that are either A) not available in lossless B) being streamed on a lower connection speed is less than or equal to (depending on the song and conditions) to the competitors
5. The library is limited (all 3 major competitors are at least 20% larger in libary)
6. AFAIK still doesn't support Chromecast... which is stupid.
7. The fact that I'm up to 7 counts as 7 and I don't feel a need to continue....
So the answer to your title is, "No, Google Play Music is better, by a lot. Then Spotify, then either Apple Music or Tidal ... or possibly even Pandora or iHeart Radio... because once you're past first and second, why are you still installing apps?
The answer to your claims about library size are in my answer above, but No, Tidal is not larger than Spotify in anything but price. Spotify has a bigger library and more users. And when we talk Quality, if most things are streaming at max 320kbps, then that's the quality. A few outliers don't change the fact that almost all mobile users are getting 320kbps, 256kbps or sometimes even less.