Could this signal the rise of modern indie radio stations?

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Hi-fi music-streaming service Tidal is about to change how we discover new music.

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These DJs were great.

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You could listen until you heard something you liked.

Tidal’s DJ Sessions may or may not be intended for this, but why not?

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There are, of course, some catches.

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It also means that you are limited to songs already on Tidal.

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Imagine a big-name artist dropping an unreleased track during a DJ session.

That would be pretty wild.

A music producer working in a recording studio.

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Tidal’s biggest problem might be that this idea is so easy to copy.

If it takes off, then Spotify and Apple Music could easily replicate it.

What this really highlights is how much better people are than algorithms at finding music we might like.