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In Reply to: RE: Whatever happened to MQA? posted by ahendler on May 05, 2017 at 18:38:13
Alan, thanks for the updated figures. I assume that file = album and not track.
This means that 186 master albums have been added to Tidal since January and the launch. Is that a reasonable rate of expansion?
I am not making any comment about MQA as to its sound quality or Tidal subscribers enjoyment of it. I am simply trying to answer the question posed by the OP.
Whatever happened to MQA? Comparing the current situation with the position announced by them at this year's CES the answer seems to be one of regression not advancement. Most importantly there seems to be little activity visible which is not encouraging three years after the initial concept launch.
Licensing fees if accepted should not hold up the roll out but will affect the decision of whether or not to become involved in the first place. Currently it appears that for most record labels and hardware manufacturers that decision has been negative.
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" little activity visible"
Again UMG and Sony are batch processing there catalogs for MQA. Why is everybody in such a hurry?
Alan
Why hurry? Of the hundreds of thousand titles out there we have less than a thousand on MQA, that's just not enough to keep me interested. Consider that maybe 25% (I'm being generous here) are of interest. As I posted below I've taken possession of at least that many LPs in the same time. I would think Tidal can do better than my sister in providing me music.
I'm losing interest in it, and I'm one of the people interested enough to post on a forum about it.
After the original Tidal free trial I decided to not pay to renew as the pace of rollouts was only a trickle. But then about 2 months later I tried again and paid my money (or my daughter paid my money for her student account) and it is still only a trickle. I have a setup with an old macbook hooked into my main system, but I started using the computer for work again, and never plug it back in even though it is as simple as inserting the connector into the USB. The content just isn't compelling enough.One other complaint about Tidal. On Spotify, Amazon, and Apple music I could always find decent playlist mixes that I could set and forget for an hour or two. Playlists on Tidal are almost all curated by Tidal, and they are almost all single artist. What's the point? I always used playlists to discover new artists mixed in with more familiar ones. Never mind the fact that Tidal caters to a different audience than myself in the first place.
So, 186 albums? I think I've collected more than that on vinyl in the last few months, and didn't pay for a single one.
This is all reminding me to cancel before the next auto payment goes out.Oh, and the sound quality of MQA is pretty good compared to the non-MQA. Try Eric Bibb's Migration Blues on Tidal Masters. Really nice sounding.
Edits: 05/06/17
Now over 700 albums
I know you guys are tired of me posting but the Mis-information is huge. You post without reading any of the other posts which would give you correct info
Alan
Zacster's number of albums is correct. 186 albums added since January. if you search the forum's archive you will find that on January 30th there were 514 master albums on Tidal. You say there are now 700. 700-514 = 186. No misinformation.
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