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Tidal‘s Hi-Fi Plus subscription tier recently became the first place in the streaming music world where you could stream hi-res audio in both FLAC and MQA formats on your smartphone. Unfortunately, ...

I had the chance to try out Tidal’s new Max audio quality setting — which integrates hi-res audio FLAC files into the streaming service’s HiFi Plus subscription tier — while it was still in beta. It ...

Music-streaming app Tidal has begun rolling out hi-res FLAC streams across the platform, according to CEO Jesse Dorogusker via a Reddit post. FLAC (free lossless audio codec) streams offer high ...

My system does not play FLAC files if they have a .fla extension but if I change the extension to .flac then everything is ok. MPC just says "Cant render file" and ...

One of the most iconic and quality-focused music streaming platforms, Tidal, is up for a drastic change, deciding to replace its MQA with new formats and experiences. It also follows the recent price ...

FLAC is acronym and it stands for Free Lossless Audio Coding. Since its developed in early 2000s, it’s become one of the most common and popular digital audio lossless formats; and it is open format, ...

Things appeared to be looking up for MQA. The company behind one of the audio world’s most controversial technologies recently launched a new (and largely unrelated) piece of tech called the SCL6 ...

as the SL suggests, i've been using EAC to rip my CD collection to .mp3 via LAME encoding. What i'd like to do moving forward is to create a lossless copy in addition to the lossy(for playback on a ...