Decoding MQA in the TIDAL player....

Posted by Ivan303 (A) on July 14, 2017 at 06:47:04

In Reply to: RE: Good question... posted by zacster on July 14, 2017 at 02:34:25:

uses significantly more CPU time than playing 16/44.1 tracks. Obviously my MacBook Air with the slowest CPU available at the time (mid 2011) is going to have a larger percentage of CPU time used to decode MQA in TIDAL than my recently purchased maxed out i7 iMac.

But still, it's using at least 3 time the resources to stream MQA and decode it in the player that it is to just stream 16/44.1, or so it would seem. Enough to make the fan come on. But that happens when I streaming a YouTube video and have a dozen Firefox tabs open anyway.

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Topic - identifying streaming quality on Tidal - Jim D. 08:55:30 07/12/17 (17)

Here's another twist - Tidal from within Roon - AbeCollins 20:15:03 07/14/17 (2)

What device actually is decoding the MQA encoded file... - Ivan303 20:56:00 07/14/17 (1)

RE: What device actually is decoding the MQA encoded file... - AbeCollins 21:23:38 07/14/17 (0)

It would depend entirely on the player software Bluesound Node 2 uses.... - Ivan303 19:33:43 07/13/17 (12)

RE: It would depend entirely on the player software Bluesound Node 2 uses.... - double28 07:24:58 07/14/17 (7)

But will in decode the MQA encoded signal... - Ivan303 13:36:51 07/14/17 (6)

RE: But will in decode the MQA encoded signal... - double28 14:03:38 07/14/17 (5)

RE: "will do 96 kHz"... - Ivan303 19:09:53 07/14/17 (4)

Mere micro? - E-Stat 12:01:48 07/19/17 (3)

One step at a time! - Ivan303 19:54:15 07/19/17 (2)

At least 3 or 4 used uRendu at Audiogon - AbeCollins 10:45:11 07/21/17 (1)

LOL! Already have one on the way... - Ivan303 08:10:59 07/22/17 (0)

RE: It would depend entirely on the player software Bluesound Node 2 uses.... - PAR 20:34:14 07/13/17 (3)

Good question... - Ivan303 21:26:47 07/13/17 (2)

RE: Good question... - zacster 02:34:25 07/14/17 (1)

Decoding MQA in the TIDAL player.... - Ivan303 06:47:04 07/14/17 (0)

RE: identifying streaming quality on Tidal - ahendler 11:23:01 07/12/17 (0)

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