Kuro wrote: > Using Roon, I noticed that sometimes there are 2 albums, one with > 16/44.1 and the other one with MQA, but also labelled with something > like 24/48K FLAC. > > With Roon, you see which one has the word "Master" next to the album, > but with LMS, there is no way to tell. > > I'm using the Hi-Fi subscription. > > When 2 versions of the same album are available, I tried to play both > versions, and both of them are being streamed as 44.1K to me, as seen on > my DAC. > > So if you request LOSSLESS, is there a way to capture the bit depth and > sample rate info, so that can be displayed on iPeng? Right now, all I > see is "File Format: FLAC (Tidal)". > > Would be wonderful if I can see "File Format: FLAC 24/48K" or something > like that. > > Or maybe the search function of the Tidal plug-in is not locating the > higher-res version?
Tidal Masters are encoded with MQA, which requires a licence to decode which LMS doesn't have. However, playing a Masters recording on non-MQA equipment will actually give you less quality than the non Masters version due to the encoding process that's been applied - the bit that non-MQA systems can read has been processed to work with the MQA encoding, which we can't read. So, the best you get from tidal with LMS is the HiFi (CD quality) non-Masters recordings. If you want > cd quality, you need to look elsewhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ psketch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56555 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113672 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
