Tidal class-action


MQA declared bankruptcy.  I smell the fear of a class action lawsuit against Tidal.  We could do that.  Tidal has 8 million subscribers, we don't know how many or how long they all were paying double by subscribing to the 'nobody can prove Tidal has any tracks higher than 44.1khz' plan.  They probably have lots of people on phones who haven't even heard of MQA who trust them and wanted the one that sounds better.  They're right not to have to listen to any talk about MQA if they want the plan that sounds better.

MQA means you can't prove the file is an original copy or not. That Beethoven track you like it says is 192 could actually be Dua Lipa at 11khz.

The bankruptcy move was probably to protect themselves from Tidal, who is the receiver of people's funds.

 

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bowinkle:

mqa’s use of upfolding instead of upsampling can indeed make your yamaha indicate whatever they want. When Tidal gets a 384 track, they will say that if you bought the same 10k dac with their cheap chip in it first, your dac will light up 384, also, from a 44.1 stream, instead of them streaming you the original 384.

If you're listening in your car, you'll have to trade it in for the current model with the chip in the dashboard that only works on Tidal, to get upfolded bitrate from Tidal.

This could become explosive. So many manufacturers have already gone to great effort and expense to incorporate MQA into their equipment. Then on top of the losses there, I am thinking that this is just another tactic to eliminate 'ORIGINAL Recording Quality' from the market just like they did years ago with SACD.
Also I have to say just look at WHO is saying what. I mean there were so many people BRAGGING about the quality and saying this is the ultimate and I wonder if those aren't the exact same folks that are now crying about being duped into thinking they are being cheated. That only shows how gullible the minds are when discussing Audiophile topics.

I'm a Qobuz subscriber so i don't have a dog in the MQA fight but I have a question I hope someone here can answer. Qobuz transmits files in the FLAC format which allows various lossless compression levels. Does Qobuz compress its FLAC files to save bandwidth?

I did a search and I can't find anywhere that addresses this question. BTW, when I ripped my CD library I used the zero compression setting in dbPoweramp because I don't want the processor to work any harder than it has to when it plays the files.

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