Bigger fish to fry as they say
There can’t be that much to do in Gastonia, can there?
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I was in Rhode Island for a week. Lots to do there.
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If money is about to be spent on licenses, I would expect roon and its community to first discuss how important this feature is and how many people actually use it. I have the feeling - I might be completely wrong - that buying MQA downloads and playing them was rather a niche phenomenon compared to playing MQA sourced by Tidal.
I admit that I would rather like to see roon spending money on licenses and time on integrating formats which might play a bigger role in future, such as Dolby Atmos sourced from Tidal, MKV or Auro3D in WAV. I understand that these have other legal implications and would not come anytime soon.
Fully understand the disappointment of listeners who appreciated their MQA content but I think it is time to move on.
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I don’t use MQA unless it’s a Qobuz stream, there are a few apparently (I haven’t noticed and I don’t look at the signal path much) and ATMOS doesn’t interest me at all, but Roon should appeal to as wide an audience as possible, so am happy for both to be supported.
The new MQA venture, if incorporated into Roon as a streaming source may well please a lot of people and bring more subscribers.
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nice, nice.
Hi, I have changed back to tidal after the dropped MQA, my understanding was that it would have been out rolled now, in August 2024, but I am still seeing MQA?
See screenshot
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Roll out seems to take some more time for roon integration, see this thread:
A status from Roon was posted here:
https://community.roonlabs.com/t/if-you-use-tidal/278048/115
If the Roon Signal path is showing that the stream is MQA, then it’s MQA. This has nothing to do with Roon integration, because Roon does not choose the stream; it only plays back what TIDAL provides; and TIDAL is still serving up MQA.
Note: although TIDAL has removed MQA indicators and decoding from its own apps, as I understand it, if you were to playback the same track (using a bit-perfect configuration) through an MQA DAC, you would similarly get an MQA stream and decode.
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Tidal did a little bait and switch. They claimed MQA files would be replaced after that date but all they did is update their software to no longer play it. These were mostly the 44/16 MQA files they never got around to replacing during the first year of their rollout out. I dropped Tidall since o find this a bit misleading.
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Tout à fait!
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Tidal claim(ed) 110 million tracks and around 10% of which were MQA
That equates to 11 million albums say at 10 tracks per album so say 1 million MQA that is a lot of albums to replace no matter how automated it is.
My guess is their license is about to expire but but they still have a bit of time left . I wouldn’t like the job of fishing out all those albums 
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Yes, there are other fish in the pond.
I buy all music I like now and use Qobuz to fill the gaps and audition new music.
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Nice to know they still haven’t purged MQA yet. Makes my decision to leave Tidal for Qobuz seem better.
But honestly, hopefully the few of you hanging to MQA will be happy enough when that new service launches soon. And maybe even roon will carry them. Good to have choices.
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we happy few.
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