# TIDAL's upcoming MQA changes? What are they? **URL:** \ **Category:** TIDAL\ **Created:** [May 4, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tidals-upcoming-mqa-changes-what-are-they/158380 "2021-05-04T22:53:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![miguelito](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/miguelito/32/60227_2.png) [@miguelito](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/miguelito)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tidals-upcoming-mqa-changes-what-are-they/158380/1 "2021-05-04T22:53:57Z")
I understand there are some changes coming to TIDAL regarding MQA, subscription tiers, or something similar. Does anyone know what these are? Thx. ---
**Author:** ![rrwwss52](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/rrwwss52/32/49748_2.png) [@rrwwss52](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/rrwwss52)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tidals-upcoming-mqa-changes-what-are-they/158380/2 "2021-05-04T23:28:42Z")
First word I’d heard, but wonder if it has to do with the new Square (Dorsey) ownership. ---
**Author:** ![dabassgoesboomboom](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/dabassgoesboomboom/32/131673_2.png) [@dabassgoesboomboom](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/dabassgoesboomboom)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 12:19am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tidals-upcoming-mqa-changes-what-are-they/158380/3 "2021-05-05T00:19:26Z")
2 threads already been discussing > [@Tidal “HiFi Plus” Introduced](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tidal-hifi-plus-introduced/157461): > > [@New TIDAL tiers and MQA](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/new-tidal-tiers-and-mqa/157785): > > This is a great suggestion on the surface, but as I understand it now Tidal no longer provides standard PCM 16/44 for much of their catalog, having replaced it with lossy MQA. If we do this, won’t we be streamed MQA anyways when we play these albums, and if this is true how will it help you as Roon will still rightly detect the source file as being MQA correct? ---
**Author:** ![Carl](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/carl/32/49779_2.png) [@Carl](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Carl)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tidals-upcoming-mqa-changes-what-are-they/158380/4 "2021-05-05T20:34:49Z")
Yep we have two topics open already, so I’m closing this one. ---
**Author:** ![Carl](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/carl/32/49779_2.png) [@Carl](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Carl)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tidals-upcoming-mqa-changes-what-are-they/158380/5 "2021-05-05T20:34:58Z")