Tidal streaming quality setting ignored

[SKBubba]

Setup: Windows 10 server, Windows 10 remote/playback, wired ethernet, roon 1.8.778

Issue: settings → services → tidal → streaming quality set to “HiFi” but roon radio still picks MQA files. Also, signal path shows different MQA quality than album info.

[ged_hickman1]

You see MQA, you get cd quality.

Can Roon default to non-MQA version of Albums

This is pretty much on the money. Note that Roon will still display the highest quality available next to the album, because we don’t have that kind of granularity of metadata. Signal path will be correct though and show what is actually being streamed. That would be one use case (and clearly we have customers who want to do this), but in general, being able to control the streaming bandwidth is the important consideration, for both TIDAL and Qobuz. You may need to restrict Qobuz to 24/96 o…

[SKBubba]

Oh, just looked closely at signal path. It shows flac 16/44.1. Never mind.

[SKBubba]

Oops spoke too soon…

[WiWavelength (Andrew J Shepherd)]

This is well documented in other threads. Tidal HiFi does not exclude 16 bit 44.1 kHz MQA. But for 24 bit MQA, Tidal Masters is required.

AJ

[beka]

Hey @SKBubba,

Thanks so much for bringing up this topic. I’m sorry we weren’t around to chime in sooner - we’re doing our best to reply to everyone

@WiWavelength and @ged_hickman1 thanks for your interventions

Is there anything we can help with at the moment, @SKBubba ?