![]() Dorogusker said that TIDAL will invest at least $5 million in this program, more than 10 times what it paid artists via DAP since early 2022. In lieu of DAP, TIDAL is investing more money into its TIDAL Rising program, which promotes emerging musicians. He said that 70,000 artists were enrolled in the program, but they only paid out $500,000, which was “far short” of TIDAL’s goal. “The DAP program focused only on a listener’s #1 artist, which left much, much less room for emerging artists to get paid,” TIDAL CEO Jesse Dorogusker wrote in a Twitter thread today. In April, TIDAL will end the DAP program. For customers on the $19.99/month HiFi Plus tier, each individual subscriber’s most-listened artist would get 10% of their subscription fee.Īs it turns out, that plan didn’t work. ![]() The platform, which targets consumers who seek a higher-quality audio experience, introduced a novel direct artist payouts (DAP) program last year. Unlike Spotify and other market leaders, which pay musicians small fractions (…of fractions) of pennies for each play, TIDAL has taken a more imaginative approach to artists payouts. Even though the overall average measured bitrate of Apple Music was 117 Kbps, the fact that a few of the songs were 140-161 Kbps seems to indicate that Apple Music is encoding at either AAC 192 Kbps VBR or 256 Kbps VBR (more likely, since this is what Apple Music uses on other platforms).The Block-owned music streaming service TIDAL is shifting the way it pays artists after an experimental program failed to generate results. For that reason, you can't really determine the true encoding bit rate by measuring file size alone. For example, if you encode 4 minutes of silence with AAC 256 Kbps fixed bit rate, you might end up with a 7.5 MB file, but if you encode it with AAC 256 Kbps VBR, you might end up with a 0.1 MB file because very little data / bit rate is required for silence. With variable bit rate, you set a maximum bit rate, but the encoder can encode certain portions of a song at a lower bit rate if it's a simple part of the song and the encoder determines it can use a lower bit rate without reducing quality. all of these streams are VBR (variable bit rate). Shoutout u/allegory_corey for performing a similar test not too long ago on Tesla OS 2022.40.4.2.It seems like the bitrate is either around 64 Kbps or 128 Kbps based on my test results. Based on the test results, I do agree with u/OverlyOptimisticNerd in that Tesla's Apple Music app is leveraging HE-AAC behind the scenes.I hope in a future update Tesla will add support for Lossless as that should put it on par w/ TIDAL from an audio quality perspective. Even though I had high hopes for Apple Music it seems like for now Tesla has limited the in-car app to a bitrate of ~118 Kbps.While I'm happy the Spotify app was updated to support a higher bitrate I still wish Tesla would allow it to stream at >=256 Kbps esp. After TIDAL the in-car Spotify app took 2nd place as it had an avg bitrate of ~157 Kbps.The average bitrate for TIDAL was ~1165 Kbps. ![]()
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