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minus-squareTheFrenchGhosty@lemmy.pussthecat.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoMQA is literal garbage, so no, Tidal doesn’t. Qobuz and Deezer do however.
minus-squareTheFrenchGhosty@lemmy.pussthecat.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 years agoTidal proprietary lossy codec, that they advertized as lossless. https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=NHkqWZ9jzA0
minus-squareYote.zip@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoIt’s been a long time since the MQA controversy but I remember this was a great video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc IIRC Tidal basically applies subjective post-processing onto the lossless files and pretends they sound better.
MQA is literal garbage, so no, Tidal doesn’t.
Qobuz and Deezer do however.
What is MQA?
Tidal proprietary lossy codec, that they advertized as lossless.
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=NHkqWZ9jzA0
It’s been a long time since the MQA controversy but I remember this was a great video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc
IIRC Tidal basically applies subjective post-processing onto the lossless files and pretends they sound better.