I stopped my tidal subscriptions a while back and are now on Spotify again (320kb ogg )
But when on tidal hifi I did notice that only about 80% was flac and they where very slow on the uptake to fix the remaining MP3 only files . But that was my use case how much MP3 only still in thier system nobody knows I bet they don't . Streaming services from the record labels perspective is almost " self service " you upload your catalog to the system , you do the work . For a hifi service I would expect some sanity checks on the files , verifying which master it is from to ensure the best version of the work , this is more important than the actual file format but nobody does that ,because it's work :) and requires human intervention . There is some older treads where varius member of your forum tries to figure what kind of soundquality you get from thier lossy MP3 or ogg options , no conclusion really but it seemed that they don't always use best practice when doing lossy , so it can sound worse than it should . Like in thier stach of MP3 or ogg files there are some really old crusty encodings they won't fix . I suspect a dodgy track on a streaming service don't get fixed until the record label does it for them . Their quality control consit on waiting for user compliant and forwards them to the labels who in most cases could not care less . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104740 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
