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minus-squareTheFrenchGhosty@lemmy.pussthecat.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoMQA is literal garbage, so no, Tidal doesn’t. Qobuz and Deezer do however.
minus-squareTheFrenchGhosty@lemmy.pussthecat.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoTidal proprietary lossy codec, that they advertized as lossless. https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=NHkqWZ9jzA0
minus-squareYote.zip@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt’s been a long time since the MQA controversy but I remember this was a great video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc IIRC Tidal basically applies subjective post-processing onto the lossless files and pretends they sound better.
minus-squareuseful_idiot@lemmy.eatsleepcode.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoSnake oil at best.
MQA is literal garbage, so no, Tidal doesn’t.
Qobuz and Deezer do however.
What is MQA?
Tidal proprietary lossy codec, that they advertized as lossless.
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=NHkqWZ9jzA0
It’s been a long time since the MQA controversy but I remember this was a great video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc
IIRC Tidal basically applies subjective post-processing onto the lossless files and pretends they sound better.
Snake oil at best.