Tidal, Could the PC User Interface Get Any Worse?
DaveHo
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Why yes, yes it can. They've gone & changed it again. Where did the Masters section go? There used to be an easy way to see a list of Masters (MQA encoded) albums. Gone! Now, it wasn't an all inclusive list, but made it easy to at least get your feet wet & possibly discover something new. Fugtards!
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Since going to Roon I no longer have to use their desktop app, but I agree that it’s horrible to use.
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From what I've read, MQA sucks.Political Correctness'.........defined
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When I use tidal on my phone I feel like smashing it on the ground. Thankfully lightning DS makes tidal much more user friendly.2 channel:
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It’s like any other audio format that’s ever existed, there are some good masters and not so good masters. For me the thing about MQA isn’t the technology itself because I don’t even know what it is, but rather the masters themselves that happen to get tagged as MQA. I don’t know if the Yes MQA stuff sounds better because it’s MQA, I just know it aohbds better.From what I've read, MQA sucks. -
Is it just me, or does everyones phone app just plain suck ?HT SYSTEM-
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Is it just me, or does everyones phone app just plain suck ?
Majority yes, I find Spotify to not be that bad. The shuffle feature could be improved but overall the Android and Ps4 apps are pretty intuitive.
Spotify added new voice features and a car mode so you can shout out at thin air and the music plays...pretty cool.Just a dude doing dude-ly things
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Agreed I think Spotify and Apple Music both are clearly ahead of Tidal with the interface, although even that statement still ultimately comes down to personal preference and I could see an Android user (which covers the majority of smartphones), having an issue with Apple Music in particular.
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I think Tidal's software is all about being sleek and cool first and functional second.
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AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
It’s like any other audio format that’s ever existed, there are some good masters and not so good masters. For me the thing about MQA isn’t the technology itself because I don’t even know what it is, but rather the masters themselves that happen to get tagged as MQA. I don’t know if the Yes MQA stuff sounds better because it’s MQA, I just know it aohbds better.From what I've read, MQA sucks.
It's a proprietary format dreamed up by Meridian Audio. It is a compressed format that is not lossless, has serious copyright protection and I'm pretty sure you need a device that can decode it. It's bad news.Political Correctness'.........defined
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Every bit of that may be true, and if it sounds better I could care less. Sometimes it sounds better, sometimes the same and sometimes worse...I attribute that more to the mastered version of the album than the MQA technology.
All I know is that there’s no way anyone can listen to the original and then the Steven Wilson remaster with MQA of Chicago II and think the original sounds better, -
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I don’t know. For me when something aohbds better it usually means I did something wrong, or right.
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From what I've read, MQA sucks.
MQA is apparently the third rail of digital audio
https://www.audioasylum.com/forums/critics/messages/9/92651.html
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