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TIDAL – MQA And Sony Audio Formats Gone Image Credit: TIDAL & MQA Labs According to TIDAL, starting July 24th 2024, there will be no further access to either MQA and 360 Reality streams from their hi-res streaming service. They have officially confirmed that they will have replaced all or […]

TIDAL – MQA And Sony Audio Formats Gone

June 21, 2024 in Audio / News tagged 360 Reality Streams / FLAC / Hi-Res Streaming / MQA / Spatial Audio / Tidal by fromvinyltoplastic

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