TIDAL MQA FILES HOW TO
TIDAL MQA FILES FULL
TIDAL MQA FILES ANDROID

Bad Guy by Billie Eilish in FLAC format on Tidal. Long Way by Eddie Vedder in MQA format on Tidal.

TIDAL MQA FILES HOW TO

I cannot find way, how to sent DSD stream from LE to my DAC without transcoding to PCM. Unsurprisingly, audiophiles in both FLAC and MQA camps were frustrated. Problem is, LE always does transcoding DSD format to PCM.

TIDAL MQA FILES FULL

I have been listening to many MQA and FLAC files on my LG G7, which does the full MQA unfold, and many of them do sound better, but that could be the result of using better masters and the bit-perfect processing that preserves that better mastering. My configuration: LE on RPi and IFi ZEN DAC V2 connected via USB. MQAs are included in the Tidal Hi-Fi subscription, so there is no additional cost there. With the frustrating addition that if you are a Tidal user, even if you have no MQA dac, and use the 'Hifi' streaming quality setting, MQA encoded/lossy files will still be. MQA side-stepped the issue of FLAC and other. TLDR: MQA isnt lossless, is arguably worse than normal flac, and is seemingly nothing more than a (quite effective) scheme to generate licensing fees.

TIDAL MQA FILES ANDROID

It works from file on filesystem, works perfect with TIDAL Master and TIDAL2 addon and works also as stream from my Android phone with mconnect application streamed via DLNA to LE Yep, when mass-market streaming services were offering low-bitrate streams five years ago, Tidal decided to offer better quality and to achieve that, it used (and licensed) MQA technology, a method of digitally packaging and storing studio master recordings as files small enough to stream. Now I'm probably going to get downvoted for thid, but the one thing about MQA which I find pretty cool is the purple color on my DAC. Which of course is good because of how controversial MQA is. Probably some time in the near future there won't be any more songs in the MQA format. In this configuration all are working perfectly, LE plays MQA files without problem, DAC right recognizes MQA content and makes final MQA unfold with full original quality without problem. So Tidal seems to slowly replacing all the MQA songs with Hi-Res. Because of LE don't recognize MQA content and don't have MQA playback license, LE cannot makes first unfold MQA file and if we have MQA DAC as renderer only, DAC don't recognize MQA content and plays core only.īut because LE plays audio content as bit perfect (except DSD) we can play full MQA with full quality files if we have DAC MQA full decoder (not renderer only). Why? LibreELEC (KODI) isn't MQA player, it means LE cannot recognizes MQA content inside normal FLAC (PCM) files or streams, plays all MQA files as normal PCM and plays from MQA files core content only, usually as normal 44,1/16 and maximally as 48/24, depending of MQA core file or stream. Shortly after contacting MQA for clarification about the issues, the files in question were deleted from Tidal. But external DAC with full MQA support is necessary for right full working.

Good message: LibreELEC is full capable of playing MQA content with full quality. After few days of research and testing, there are some new information about playback MQA files on LibreELEC:

Tidal mqa files