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In Reply to: RE: Are they adding Masters to Tidal? posted by zacster on February 04, 2017 at 11:34:53
This is the best all-around list I have found so far. Slim pickings depending on who and what you like, but a little bit for most everyone.
Sony and UMG are talking about a Spring release for their remastered Masters. I have already noticed a lot of "double" Sony albums; I suspect they are space savers for the eventual roll-out.
Now if Audioquest will just release their upgrade of the Dragonfly, we'll be in business.
Jeff
"Decaf is for cowards."
Jack Kevorkian
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When I went to the list it starts with "A"
Alan
for the past day or so, it began with "R" but now it begins with "A." Anyway, it is too sparse and cumbersome to be of much use.
I have tried accessing it with my tablet a couple of times. It is clumsy to use.
For now it is not that hard to look through the Tidal Masters list, and mark favorites.
I have learned to use the Tidal player, but it is got it's own set of quirks and bugs. I do not understand why there is no way to tell if a file is a Master, except by finding it in the Masters list or playing it. MQA files should be easily identifiable.
And for those with MQA dacs, be sure to click on that dac's settings, and set the option to bypass interal processing. I think it is allow pass through of MQA.
My buddy has an Explorer 2 and until I showed him, he was doing half the unfolding in Tidal's app.
And I hate how the mac version keeps going back to the top of the Masters list. It makes it really hard to go to an album and sample as you keep going back to start. After going back once from the end of the list I can't be bothered to scroll through it all again, especially since the scrolling isn't smooth.
I'm listening to Fragile/Yes right now, down at the bottom. I have to keep saying that it really sounds good. Whenever I click on something that isn't high res I'm not nearly as satisfied even if I want to hear the music. 16/44 sounds grainy by comparison.
I find it easier just to click stuff in Masters as a favorite. Then when I am done with going through the list that doesn't seem to know whether to use an artists first or last name, I can then look deeper into it. Easy enough to remove from favorites.
I have had mixed results with CD resolution entries. First time I listened to something I thought it sounded worse than my rips or CDs played on my transport. I finally came to the conclusion that it is the quality of the version they have. Some are very good, others not so much.
I don't think they took 62 year old audiophiles into consideration when designing their player.
There is another bug, if you put some albums in the queue, start playing, and add something to the queue, it doesn't add on to the bottom of the list, it plays next. Leaving tracks from what you are listening to, below that entry.
I have a little over two months left on my trial, and then I will decide, but I am leaning towards keeping it. The selection is surprisingly good. I just looked, they have the Blodwyn Pig albums. Most people don't even know they are.
If we were kids listening to Mp3s, it would be awesome. When I started buying albums, I think they were around $4. I was buying at least four records a month, plus a lot of $2 cutouts. And any LPs or "playlists" were copied onto cassettes.
As someone who only got into a computer music source about 18 months ago, I still find buying downloads an unnatural way of owning music. If I were to die, all my albums and CDs would be sold or donated, while the downloads would probably end up deleted.
it's focused on those who like oldies pop & rock. :)
It's focused on Warner's back catalog, but yeah, that's what it is now. They don't have a deep jazz or classical roster either.
But when UMG and Sony get in on it, it may be a whole new ball game.
At some point they're going to have to let us know which albums are MQA and make them easier to locate.
Jeff
"Decaf is for cowards."
Jack Kevorkian
...but yeah, that's what it is now.
Hence my observation.
Nothing of interest to find here. Move along!
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