Hi. I’m new here. And my English isn’t very good. Sorry about that.
Please help me up.
I have problems to playback files that I ripped from MQACD (352.8kHz).
It’s difficult to explain. Seems that there are gabs between songs and make my MQA decoder goes off and on. Creating clip noise at the beginning of every song. I use Audrivana too and it has no problem to playback the same albums. This really annoying. Is there anyone has the same problem? Or is there anyone knows how to solve this? Thank you.
Btw. No problem to playback MQA files from Tidal. Including 352.8kHz files.
Core and out put : Mac mini 2018. 3.2GHz Core i7 16GB 512GB SSD
DAC : Pro-Ject Pre Box S2 Digital
Ripping software : X Lossless Decoder （FLAC）
I have encountered problems with ripped MQACD files too.
I ripped a japanese UHQ MQACD (Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms) to lossless FLAC using dBpoweramp as ripping software. Accurate ripping was confirmed.
When I play the Album from my Nucleus+ internal SSD, track 1 and 8 play as a 16/44 redbook file, whereas all other tracks (2-7, 9) are recognized correctly as MQA including Authentication as MQA Studio 352,8 and core decoding to 24/88,2.
Those 2 tracks not authenticated as MQA do not seem to be corrupt, as they are decoded perfectly on my other MQA-enabled Systems, when they are played without Roon:
My Bluesound Node2 (using Bluesound Player software, not Roon), my Meridian Explorer2 (using foobar player in exclusive mode on my WinPC) and my Onkyo DP-X1 all can authenticate and decode those 2 tracks as MQA Studio 352,8.
So imho this must be a Roon-specific problem in not recognizing those 2 files as mqa.
By the way all 9 files were left as ripped without any modification of tags and show mqa.flac as their file extension.
Screenshots of track1 (not OK) and 2 (OK) included:
@KENKEN -
Thanks for sending those files over. I did indeed notice the same clipping that you have, and it appears that the album is a mix of MQA and non-MQA content. I will forward these files to QA to take a look and will let you know what they say.
@Hubert -
Thanks for sending those files as well, I have asked QA to review them.
I will be sure to let you both know the outcome once this request has reached QA’s queue.
@KENKEN I ripped an MQA CD awhile back and didn’t have proper playback. I discovered that you need to have the .mqa extension at the end of each track. For example, <The_Raven.mqa>. If your files are not tagged this way, edit one of them and see whether it makes a difference. It did for me.
@Hubert Try editing those ripped files and put the .mqa extension at the end, such as <The_Raven.flac.mqa>. I had the same problem and the solution I have proposed made the difference.
When I rename the tracks on my ripped copy of the Raven to .mqa from .flac Roon deletes the album. If I rename to .mqa.flac the album shows back up as a FLAC 44.1kHz 16bit CD.
