MQA files skipping and stopping via TIDAL

[Tony_Devitt]

Hi @Josh_Gordon, this issue was discussed here

TIDAL: a network or connection error is interfering with TIDAL playback

If I could clarify re Patrick’s comment above … I spent a little time comparing a Tidal MQA album with its FLAC equivalent (Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man). This showed that during the first 5-10 seconds of a track the following track on the album was being cached, in the Roon cache. Further, each MQA track cached almost three times the size of the non-MQA track (26Mb vs. 9.2Mb, 42Mb vs. 15Mb, 30Mb vs. 11Mb etc.). Correspondingly, processor load during the cache operation for MQA tracks …

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