Just some personal feedback on issues that others have experienced with TIDAL. I signed up for TIDAL HiFi a few weeks ago. Since that time I have experienced the following problems and seem (so far) to have remedied them in my environment.
1) hanging (presumably buffering) between songs. ==> This was significantly reduced by using Google DNS servers (as suggested previously in this thread).
2) ticks, pops, mini dropouts during song playback. These usually happened at the beginning and end of songs, although sometimes in the middle. ==> This issue was solved for me by changing my laptop network connection from wireless to a wired ethernet connection.
That having been said, I do not believe it was the fault of my wireless network (slow speed, crappy router, etc). I believe it was an internal data bus interference/overlap in my laptop between activity on my my wireless card and the USB output to my DAC. When I changed to wired, the ethernet port was likely on a different internal bus from my USB connection. Have been running TIDAL now for 2 days with no ticks,pops, etc. Before trying this I experimented with Fidelizer to play around with services, task priority, etc. That did not help with my issues although I may stay with Fidelizer anyway.
Hope this helps.
