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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.
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.