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Apologies if this has already been explained on other threads. I could not find anything.
I’m trying out tidal, I use Roon with Squuezelite (which has identified a number of end points, of which I use a series of Unitiqutes) and with a Sonore Bridge (set up for my NDS).

Tidal, in her wisdom, selects music with MQA embedded, if that’s the word, when I start iRadio. Could someone please explain a few things for me.

  1. Why can I play some MQA through the ‘Qutes and not others?
  2. Of course, the NDS feed behaves normally.
  3. I can’t use multiroom with MQA files.
  4. Is there something I can set up in Roon to improve the MQA experience?
  5. Does bit depth conversions make any difference to MQA playback and SQ?
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In Roon under MQA Capabilities what is your setting?

Mine is set to ‘No MQA Support’ and Roon then seems to take care of everything.

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Regardless of MQA you can’t multiroom HD music on the old streamers. So maybe the files that won’t multiroom are HD?

Best

David

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That’s helpful. Thanks. I’ve turned it off (device setup, advanced).
I’ve also turned off Flac compression.

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I suspect David’s explanation is correct, the streamer can’t multiroom hi-res music. It would have saved people a fair amount of head scratching over the years if you got a message on the screen explaining this, rather than just silence!

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