Tidal stutters on phone trying to play highest quality

[bigboss]

Android Devices Are Turning Lossless Streams Lossy on Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, and More, Based on New Tests

Independent tests confirm that Android resampling ruins bit-perfect playback, but there is a workaround.

www.headphonesty.com

 

[abacus]

The 17 is e-SIM only in the UK.

Here are the specs iPhone 17

Bill

 

[gasolin]

Strange it's fine thru bt speaker

limit of usb on my phone ?

 

[gasolin]

It does it again with 24 bit 192khz song usb headphones

 

[RTHerringbone]

What happens if you download the affected track(s) to your phone? Even if just as an experiment, it will help you narrow down the issue.

I've never had a single issue with Tidal buffering when streaming, but I don't stream through a phone.

 

[gasolin]

Not shure what quality it downloads it in

 

[RTHerringbone]

You have three download options in Settings > Downloads > Audio. Low, High and Max, and Max is 24-bit, 192 kHz, so the format you're experiencing buffering with.

 

[gasolin]

It does it when using + usb https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frack.xeq

 

[DCarmi]

If your phone has battery saver is on then apparently the Motorola software will aggressively reduce power to the USB port which can cause a stuttering effect. The solution is to turn off the battery saver in settings.

Also make sure Tidal is set to "unrestricted" in battery settings. Settings->apps->tidal->battery

 

[gasolin]

No it's XEQ – Equalizer & Bass Booster that does it

If i do one thing, take my heaphones out and in again, it's fine

 

[RTHerringbone]

So the solution is to stop fannying about with EQ!

 

[gasolin]

There is more settings than i realized, together with the devoloper i tried some settings that didn't worked

Here is what worked

Tried increasing buffer size and it worked, it was at min and i guess for big files,streaming high res songs, it wasn't high enough