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In Reply to: RE: Apple in talks to buy TIDAL? posted by Ivan303 on June 30, 2016 at 17:36:02
Do you use Tidal with the Tidal App on Mac? I haven't signed up for the trial but I was just screwing around the Tidal app on my Mac and thought the interface wasn't bad. Of course I only messed with it for a few minutes and hope to dive deeper into it after the holiday.
Where am I going with this? I'm wondering if there's any advantage of using Roon with Tidal, or just going straight Tidal.
I don't care if Apple buys Tidal so long as they keep the uncompressed streaming.
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If this comes off it will, no doubt, behave in the same manner as most takeovers- the dominant service becomes the only service.
It is a very expensive option for a company to run two distinct operations that offer substitutional services (as the majority of people would see it, superior SQ is not a significant benefit for the mass market). So Apple will want to migrate Apple Music users to Tidal or Tidal users to Apple Music. Which way round do you think it would be?
but one can hope. ;-)I may still play around with Tidal on an open ended monthly plan, rather then buying 6 mos at a discount.
Edits: 07/02/16
I use the tidal app on my phone, but the Roon interface is better for the desktop. I had some epic listening sessions last weekend with the wife out-of-town, and had a buddy over too. We listened to a mix of Roonified Tidal and vinyl along with a few from my collection of hirez files. My original MoFi Dark Side of the Moon, which has been played maybe 20 times, was the best thing all night.I have been disappointed a few times by Tidal lacking some titles I wanted to listen to. I pulled up Aldo Nova and a rare GRP release by Billy Cobham, but Billy Thorpe's Children of the Sun was absent. It is still the best sounding service. Use Roon with HQPlayer and there's no going back...
Edits: 06/30/16
Paul, I have a variety of file types mostly AIFF and some ALAC. I know that HQPlayer does not support ALAC but when used in conjunction with Roon, will it 'pass' ALAC. In other words if I'm in shuffle mode and an ALAC file is chosen, will the Roon/HQPlayer combo halt, crash, or will the ALAC file still play via Roon (w/o HQPlayer processing of course)?
Yes, Roon handles most file types and passes them to HQP as PCM, so there are no problems with playback. Most of my library is ALAC with a few .dsf files and a few FLAC files. That is the real advantage of Roon into HQP: it is a great front end for all these files types including ALAC.
My understanding of Roon + HQPlayer may have been 'backwards'. So it is Roon that is passing the PCM to HQP, not HQP processing the file then passing it to Roon ?
If what you say is true, that's encouraging as I won't have to bulk convert my ALAC to FLAC.
Roon is the front end, HQPlayer is an endpoint. It's a software endpoint, but acts as hardware endpoint. Roon is a media management application although it does have an audio processing core. You need to set up HQPlayer with your DAC or another endpoint for playback. One of the cool things Roon does is to mimic LMS, so you can have a bunch of squeezeboxen and even synch them for background use.
Excellent. Thanks for clearing that up.
Yes, the OS-X app is fine.
Search is not so good for classical. QOBUZ and ClassicsOnlineHD are both better for classical.
Still, would hate to lose TIDAL.
I remember MOG, which I liked. Beats bought it, then Apple..... Where is it? .... Must be Lost.
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