NinaB said:

FunkyBrotha said:

Absolutely fantastic! Great to have everything in one place finally! Just 20ten missin

& Gold Nigga

& N.E.W.S.

Se7en said:

Just an FYI - none of those albums appear in the Tidal Store for purchase, so they must be a streaming exclusive for a while.

The Black Album
The Gold Experience
Ghaos And Disorder
Crystal Ball
1999: The New Master (please don't buy this)
Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic
The Rainbow Children
One Nite Alone... Live
One Nite Alone... The Aftershow
Indigo Nights
Exodus
Newpower Soul

1-800 New Funk
Girl 6
N.E.W.S.

If Tidal were smart, they would have made all of Prince's music available to stream for non-members today only.
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suomynona said:

Se7en said:

Just an FYI - none of those albums appear in the Tidal Store for purchase, so they must be a streaming exclusive for a while.

The Black Album
The Gold Experience
Ghaos And Disorder
Crystal Ball
1999: The New Master (please don't buy this)
Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic
The Rainbow Children
One Nite Alone... Live
One Nite Alone... The Aftershow
Indigo Nights
Exodus
Newpower Soul

1-800 New Funk
Girl 6

If Tidal were smart, they would have made all of Prince's music available to stream for non-members today only.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I was so disheartened to think that they were available for streaming only. I work in a far corner of a big building and can't always stream music because of the signal that I receive. But now I can buy the few that I don't have.

traceyp23 said:

suomynona said:

The Black Album
The Gold Experience
Ghaos And Disorder
Crystal Ball
1999: The New Master (please don't buy this)
Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic
The Rainbow Children
One Nite Alone... Live
One Nite Alone... The Aftershow
Indigo Nights
Exodus
Newpower Soul

1-800 New Funk
Girl 6

If Tidal were smart, they would have made all of Prince's music available to stream for non-members today only.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I was so disheartened to think that they were available for streaming only. I work in a far corner of a big building and can't always stream music because of the signal that I receive. But now I can buy the few that I don't have.

I don't believe they are available for purchase at this time. (You do NOT have to be a member to purchase music on Tidal.)

Send me an orgnote about what records you are missing and I will see if I can find them for you elsewhere.

Nothing new here, but sure, it's nice they added it I guess.

laurarichardson said:

RODSERLING said:

The big question is : was it already schedulmed before Prince's death ? How the hell could they release 15 albums that were on so various record companies ? Prince had the masters of course, but did he gave the loseless tapes to Tidal before he died ?

-- Of course he did how else would Tidal have been able to get a hold of Exodus.

So he gave all the tape of everyone of his albums, but Tidal is releasing them only now ? Does it sound logical to anyone here ?

RODSERLING said:

laurarichardson said:

RODSERLING said: -- Of course he did how else would Tidal have been able to get a hold of Exodus.

So he gave all the tape of everyone of his albums, but Tidal is releasing them only now ? Does it sound logical to anyone here ?

Don't you think though if Tidal didn't have a prior agreement with him they'd have to get clearance from somebody/his estate for this, and obviously nothing has been settled on that as yet

gusmcq said:

NinaB said:

FunkyBrotha said: & Gold Nigga

& N.E.W.S.

N.E.W.S. is availabe at Tidal, at least in my country.

skipthecharades said:

gusmcq said:

& N.E.W.S.

N.E.W.S. is availabe at Tidal, at least in my country.

Feel free to post a link so I can add it. Searching both Tidal search engine and Google via site:tidal.com doesn't work.

Se7en said:

Just an FYI - none of those albums appear in the Tidal Store for purchase, so they must be a streaming exclusive for a while.

And that is the opposite way from the latest tracks released when Prince was alive; the Piano tracks were download first (he said something like "For now, support the artist" on Twitter)

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Curious about the quality of the Black Album!

suomynona said:

skipthecharades said:

N.E.W.S. is availabe at Tidal, at least in my country.

Feel free to post a link so I can add it. Searching both Tidal search engine and Google via site:tidal.com doesn't work.

Hope this works: http://listen.tidal.com/album/50976983

skipthecharades said:

gusmcq said:

& N.E.W.S.

N.E.W.S. is availabe at Tidal, at least in my country.

Yeah, N.E.W.S. is definitely available and has been for some time.

skipthecharades said:

suomynona said:

Feel free to post a link so I can add it. Searching both Tidal search engine and Google via site:tidal.com doesn't work.

Hope this works: http://listen.tidal.com/album/50976983

Thanks. Added to my post. Hilarious that you can't find it via their search engine. Seriously, their site is THE WORST.

RODSERLING said:

laurarichardson said:

RODSERLING said: -- Of course he did how else would Tidal have been able to get a hold of Exodus.

So he gave all the tape of everyone of his albums, but Tidal is releasing them only now ? Does it sound logical to anyone here ?

Prince probably had a predetermined schedule for how he wanted things released and either today is in line with that schedule OR he didn't have a schedule, but had already cleared certain material for distribution at some point and this is Tidal making an executive decision which legally it seems they are within their rights to do. NOW, it could also be that these 15 albums are ONLY available for today. We'll find out tomorrow :/

suomynona said:

skipthecharades said:

Hope this works: http://listen.tidal.com/album/50976983

Thanks. Added to my post. Hilarious that you can't find it via their search engine. Seriously, their site is THE WORST.

Yeah, they are kind of weird when it comes to how they have artists/albums layed out. When you search certain artists you get their music AND the music of other artists w/ similar names. The R&B group Switch is an example of this.

PurpleMusic07 said:

RODSERLING said:

So he gave all the tape of everyone of his albums, but Tidal is releasing them only now ? Does it sound logical to anyone here ?

Prince probably had a predetermined schedule for how he wanted things released and either today is in line with that schedule OR he didn't have a schedule, but had already cleared certain material for distribution at some point and this is Tidal making an executive decision which legally it seems they are within their rights to do. NOW, it could also be that these 15 albums are ONLY available for today. We'll find out tomorrow :/

If you offline the albums now, they'll remain in your downloaded albums even if Tidal later removes them.

OperatingThetan said:

PurpleMusic07 said:

Prince probably had a predetermined schedule for how he wanted things released and either today is in line with that schedule OR he didn't have a schedule, but had already cleared certain material for distribution at some point and this is Tidal making an executive decision which legally it seems they are within their rights to do. NOW, it could also be that these 15 albums are ONLY available for today. We'll find out tomorrow :/

If you offline the albums now, they'll remain in your downloaded albums even if Tidal later removes them.

Lol seriously? That's a crazy glitch and really bad quality control on Tidal's part. Not that I'm complaining. Lol. So if you offlined Oui Can Luv when it was available you still have it?

suomynona said:

Doozer said:

suomynona said:

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So far, the only things Prince made available through Tidal that haven't been released digitally before are:

Little Red Corvette/Dirty Mind
Joy In Repetition SOH Live
Black Sweat (Live)
God 12" Instrumental (on the Purple Rain EP) -- at the hilarious price of $19.79 for the lossless version
If Eye Could Get Ur Attention
Pretzelbodylogic Reloaded
Free Urself
Ruff Enuff (with Mono Neon)

Hopefully there will be more of those kinds of releases, not rehashes that lifelong fans already have.

The brief appearance of "Oui Can Luv", too.

I don't believe that Oui Can Luv was available for purchase. It has been a long time since I've been interested in an associated artist release. I mean, I've bought the ones available for purchase, but haven't listened more than once. I mean, Prince's output for a long time was hit and miss -- so the songs he gave to other artists in the last couple of decades haven't been up to par.

Still, I wouldn't mind hearing it since most of the tracks were covers of other artists.

PurpleMusic07 said:

OperatingThetan said:

If you offline the albums now, they'll remain in your downloaded albums even if Tidal later removes them.

Lol seriously? That's a crazy glitch and really bad quality control on Tidal's part. Not that I'm complaining. Lol. So if you offlined Oui Can Luv when it was available you still have it?

If I remember correct this is true, as long as you have a subscription and don't log out on your device.

When ruff enuff came out it was instrumental first, which I saved for offline.

When it was replaced by the ' vocal' version i still had the instrumental in my playlist.

Don't know what happens if the release is withdrawn completely though.

Se7en said:

skipthecharades said:

PurpleMusic07 said:

Lol seriously? That's a crazy glitch and really bad quality control on Tidal's part. Not that I'm complaining. Lol. So if you offlined Oui Can Luv when it was available you still have it?

If I remember correct this is true, as long as you have a subscription and don't log out on your device.

When ruff enuff came out it was instrumental first, which I saved for offline.

When it was replaced by the ' vocal' version i still had the instrumental in my playlist.

Don't know what happens if the release is withdrawn completely though.

Thankfully someone saved the instrumental, because the vocal version just wasn't the same. (Same with Da Bourgeoisie after horns were added. The early version is just better -- and I love Prince's music with horns.)

PurpleMusic07 said:

RODSERLING said:

So he gave all the tape of everyone of his albums, but Tidal is releasing them only now ? Does it sound logical to anyone here ?

Prince probably had a predetermined schedule for how he wanted things released and either today is in line with that schedule OR he didn't have a schedule, but had already cleared certain material for distribution at some point and this is Tidal making an executive decision which legally it seems they are within their rights to do. NOW, it could also be that these 15 albums are ONLY available for today. We'll find out tomorrow :/

If they had the rights legally, they would have done it some weeks ago, even before Prince dies.Righ

If this was Prince's schedule (on his birthday?) , they would have advertised it as such, it would have made great publicity, such as "the prince's last gift".

RODSERLING said:

PurpleMusic07 said:

Prince probably had a predetermined schedule for how he wanted things released and either today is in line with that schedule OR he didn't have a schedule, but had already cleared certain material for distribution at some point and this is Tidal making an executive decision which legally it seems they are within their rights to do. NOW, it could also be that these 15 albums are ONLY available for today. We'll find out tomorrow :/

If they had the rights legally, they would have done it some weeks ago, even before Prince dies.Righ

If this was Prince's schedule (on his birthday?) , they would have advertised it as such, it would have made great publicity, such as "the prince's last gift".

I think we can all agree that nobody on the forum knows the answers to these questions.

RODSERLING said:

laurarichardson said:

RODSERLING said: -- Of course he did how else would Tidal have been able to get a hold of Exodus.

So he gave all the tape of everyone of his albums, but Tidal is releasing them only now ? Does it sound logical to anyone here ?

I'm pretty sure these are just CD rips.

PurpleMusic07 said:

RODSERLING said:

So he gave all the tape of everyone of his albums, but Tidal is releasing them only now ? Does it sound logical to anyone here ?

Prince probably had a predetermined schedule for how he wanted things released and either today is in line with that schedule OR he didn't have a schedule, but had already cleared certain material for distribution at some point and this is Tidal making an executive decision which legally it seems they are within their rights to do. NOW, it could also be that these 15 albums are ONLY available for today. We'll find out tomorrow :/

Only for today ? It would have been advertised as such.

bluegangsta said:

RODSERLING said:

So he gave all the tape of everyone of his albums, but Tidal is releasing them only now ? Does it sound logical to anyone here ?

I'm pretty sure these are just CD rips.

This is where I wanted to get all of you...This material is highly suspicious, since Warner didn't own these masters.

Do you all really think Tidal just ripped some CDs or downloaded some torrents to put up on their service? OF COURSE they had the legal clearance to put up those albums, NPG Records wouldn't have given them to Tidal otherwise. The history has been with Phase One and Two that catalog albums were added to Tidal along with those releases for a bigger splash. It's likely the original plan was to trickle the back catalog out along with new releases (for instance Phase 3 accompanied by Gold and Crystal Ball), but now that there won't be any more true "new" releases from Prince perhaps it was decided they could release them all at once.