Hi, does this mean that the tidal app will now support gapless playback?
Regards
Malcolm
A money problem? Itās largely down to it being lossy; proprietary and different rather than necessarily better. Itās doomed.
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If it were absolutely irrefutably astounding in any way then Iām sure weād all be queuing up for it. There was huge anticipation for it for sure but, in reality, itās one of the great let downs of recent years. It sounds nothing like a Master anything and the quality is at best debatable.
Thatās just an assumption. At best you might, if you ignore the potential downsides of lossy compression, get MQA sounding as good as lossless 24 bit material which you can get for less money from Qobuz.
I get the increasing sense we may just be being trolled.
The two things have nothing to do with each other whatsoever. Roon does not change the bits in the music, and it does not try to force licensing fees on the whole industry, which is what MQA would do if it became the only hi-res option.
Regarding the Roon functionality: You donāt have to like Roon, but your description reads as if you donāt know about the majority of its features. Did you per chance only use it on a phone?
MQA is the biggest scam ever foisted on audiophiles! Bravo to Naim for not including it in their gear.
I used Roon through a PC. Iām fully aware of all that it does. None of what it does makes it anything more than an app. It aggregates music based on an algorithmic assumption (and very poorly in my personal opinion), and charges a ridiculous amount for the privilege.
If thatās all you think it does no wonder you think itās expensive. Sure, itās not cheap and you donāt have to like it just because others do, but at least give it credit for what it can do.
Yes of course itās an app and not a planet or a car
If you used it on a PC you still didnāt even scratch its surface. Thatās like saying Microsoft Word only lets you type words, Excel only lets you add numbers, and Netflix only lets you see colored dots on the screen.
Anyways, what it does and doesnāt do still doesnāt have the slightest relationship to what MQA is doing and trying to do
I didnāt say, or infer, that aggregation was all it does. As I said, I road tested it on a PC, and know all that it does. To suggest that its features are worth the hundreds of pounds that a lifetime subscription costs is somewhere between insane and insulting. It costs more than the PC that runs it, than a yearās subscription to Tidal, which provides access to a myriad of songs. Itās an app.
Imply.
I think youāll find that infer is perfectly grammatically correct in the context of the sentence. Or are you implying otherwise
Why do you believe MQA will not sound better?
Have you listened once to MQA files streamed by a capable MQA dac?
Or do you just believe what some say here about, but having no MQA dac to prove what they affirm.
This thread has become like a Tesla car thread where people complain that they canāt fill it up with gas.
I love(d) the Tidal Connect on my Naim Atom - BUT - since last week I cannot stream directly from the Tidal app. Got the āFailed to connect to serverā message.
Iām using an android mobile, all apps and system is up to date. So is the Atom.
All works fine when listening directly on the mobile from the Tidal app.
Any ideas?
Have you signed out of Tidal and then back in again?
Yes, Iāve also fully reinstalled the Tidal app (and then had to login again) - doesnāt help.
My gripe with Tidal Connect is that I seem to have to start something playing on my iPhone before I can see the option of connecting the stream to my Atom. Am I missing something?
I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but logging out and back into TIDAL on the Naim App is also recommended.