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TIDAL Rolls Out FLAC HiRes All Image Credit: TIDAL Following the announcement in April 2023 that Tidal would be adding hi-res FLAC streams to its catalogue, the music streaming service’s CEO, Jesse Dorogusker, has now confirmed the roll-out has begun and stated that Tidal is “choosing FLAC as our preferred format […]

TIDAL Rolls Out FLAC HiRes

July 3, 2023 in Audio / News tagged FLAC / HiRes / MQA / Reddit / Tidal by fromvinyltoplastic

TIDAL To Offer Hi-Res FLAC For HiFi Plus Subscribers Image Credit: MQA & TIDAL Its been less than a week since it was announced that MQA Ltd. was going into Administration, the British equivalent of US Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Currently TIDAL uses FLAC for its CD quality streams but uses […]

TIDAL To Offer Hi-Res FLAC For HiFi Plus Subscribers

April 13, 2023 in Audio / News tagged FLAC / Hi-Res Audio / Hi-Res Streaming / MQA / Tidal / TIDAL HiFi Plus by fromvinyltoplastic

Tidal Releases MQA Android and iOS App — TIDAL – A Free Tier Plus Artist Direct Payments TIDAL has made several significant changes and updates to its services, and to supporting the music artists. They have recently announced that: There will be a new free tier. Lossless 16-bit 44.1kHz audio streams in its standard plan: TIDAL HiFi, which […]

TIDAL – A Free Tier Plus Artist Direct Payments

December 4, 2021 in Audio / News tagged Direct Artist Payments / Free Streaming / Tidal / TIDAL HiFi / TIDAL HiFi Plus by fromvinyltoplastic

Tidal Releases MQA Android and iOS App — Tidal Releases MQA Android and iOS App Introduction Let me first say that I am not a big fan of MQA. I have tried it at home using Tidal and was not impressed when compared to 24bit 96/128KHz Linear Pulse Code Modulation (LPCM), Free Lossless Audio Compression (FLAC) or […]

Tidal Releases MQA Android and iOS App

March 27, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Android / App / Apple / iOS / MAC / MQA / Tidal by fromvinyltoplastic

High Resolution and Master Quality Authenticated Audio - MQA — An Introduction into High Resolution and Master Quality Authenticated Audio – MQA. A Little Historical Perspective It all started in 1982 when Phillips and Sony released the compact disc or CD. This was the introduction of digital audio to the public. Those early discs sounded awful, despite being uncompressed, due […]

High Resolution and Master Quality Authenticated Audio – MQA

December 27, 2017 in Audio / News / Technical Posts tagged Hi-Res Audio / Master Quality Authenticated / MQA / Tidal by fromvinyltoplastic