I would like to see a more thorough account about what happened with Tidal being removed. I’m sure that users like me who only use Plex/Plexamp for music and nothing else are a small minority of users, but the removal of Tidal is a gut punch. From everything I have read, Tidal is only being removed from Plex and no other services, not even from open source projects like LMS. So this whole situation seems fishy. An explanation more than “Tidal decided to pull support from Plex” is needed.
Right now I’m wondering if I should wait and see if Plex adds another streamer like Qobuz, if I should go back to Roon (which I did not like nearly as much as Plexamp), or investigate other similar services.
As one example of the personal investment I put into Plexamp, I spent many hours creating a script that allows me to query ChatGPT to create playlists, create a Plex formatted playlist, fill in any tracks that aren’t in my local library using Tidal, and save the playlist to Plexamp. Using these playlists in Plexamp with the DJ Stretch turned on is like a dream come true. I can listen to a near perfect, non-repeating custom mix for DAYS.
And now all of this is going away? Even though it sounds silly, I almost want to cry. Plexamp + Tidal is the solution that I had hoped to find for years, and now I’m not sure what’s going to happen after October.
