I'm noticing issues today (Nov. 6) as well. I'm on day three of the 30 day trial, and the first two days were flawless. There were occasional pops/clicks, especially after starting a new song or skipping to another track, but never had issues with getting a song to play smoothly all the way through or having random drop outs.
Today, though, has been full of hiccups. Songs will take a long time to load, will freeze in the middle of a song and showing the "buffering" spinning wheel of death and not resume, and will either stay stuck or I'll have to skip forward/backward to restart the playback.
I'm using the Chrome based player on Windows based system. If you open the Task Manager and compare memory usage with the standalone app, the Chrome based player is WAY less of a system resource hog. Just FYI, because I don't think I saw that mentioned anywhere in this thread.
I don't think this is an internet connectivity problem on my end. I'm able to stream Netflix HD content and my download speed test shows I'm getting everything Verizon promises I should be getting. However, when I drop the quality of playback down to 320, though, I do get flawless playback. My Spotify streaming at that speed has also worked flawlessly (it always has). So, maybe just an issue with FLAC streaming today??
I want TIDAL to work so badly. Even more than that, I want Spotify to start offering CD quality playback, as that's what I've been on for a long time and have playlists on playlists there! None the less, TIDAL sound quality is most definitely a step up from Spotify. Can't wait to see what the future brings!
