MQA Tidal to launch MQA Hi-Res audio streaming in 2016

Haha. Yeh, thought it’d be good to jump in before you all speculated your hair off.

  1. Right now it’s just exclusive mode/wasapi yes and whenever there’s MQA content it will pass this off to external decoding on hardware. But a decoder can of course also live in software. Unfolding and rendering can of course happen in application as well. Right now it doesn’t.

  2. To give users control. Some people would like to have this limited on some devices for some reason and we’re all for that control. It also gives us a lot of flexibility to how we roll things out in the future. As vague and as simple as that :smile:

  3. I can’t comment on this yet. But as a general thing I can say that we are trying to make a great music experience affordable to as many as possible. To hear music at its original and finest quality is not an elitist thing, every music lover should have that opportunity to connect with their favourite artists and recordings.