here, I have set tidal in to HIFI, and set the MQA capabilities to NO MQA support…
When streaming most MQA labeled Tidal files, I see the signal path as standard flac, but ex playing Bil Evans Living in the crest of wave, I still see that roon is decoding MQA…
I can not other than asume that this is a bug as this should now be turned completely off
In your “device setup”, scroll down to “show advanced” and click. Scroll down to the “enable MQA core decoder” and put the slider to the off position, and see if that changes things,
The second album seems to have a tag error: in Signal Path no “MQA” appears in “Source”. It seems that the second album is not MQA.
NOTE: If you are listening to MQA albums, then it is not recommended to disable the MQA core decoder.
Since the OP has chosen HiFi quality instead of Master quality, a conclusion of tag error cannot be drawn. Forcing a 48kHz album to become 44.1kHz all MQA signaling is destroyed.
Only if the OP has chosen Master quality, then a MQA mismatch between the label and the signal path may warrant an investigation into whether this is a tag error. Even then this is very complicated due to regional album quality licensing vs user subscription, plus possibly a few other factors, etc.
Indeed. The Eliane Elias album I was looking at had both mqa and cd versions available on Tidal; although I got lost trying to work out exactly what the OP was playing…