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 ...

So much for MQA on Tidal, with the music streaming service announcing that it will soon wipe any remaining MQA-encoded tracks from its catalog of tunes. Also going out with the bathwater are tracks ...

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, ...

Listening to MQA tracks on TIDAL using BluOS just got a lot harder. Is this the end for MQA? In October 2023, BluOS 4.0 was released. It provided improved navigation, customized content, centralized ...

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 ...

Since dropping its price by a significant amount, Tidal has begun the process of removing MQA-compliant tracks from its streaming service. MQA has long been a hot point of discussion. The standard is ...

Ever since Tidal announced that it would begin adding hi-res lossless FLAC tracks to its library, we’ve known that, sooner or later, the service would kill off MQA support entirely. That day, ...

TIDAL is introducing hi-res FLAC to the platform but does that really mean the end of MQA? We take a deeper look into a story that has customers confused. In my coverage last week of MQA’s Chapter 11 ...

Tidal was in the high-resolution music streaming game long before such newcomers as Amazon and Apple, and its format of choice has historically been MQA, a lossy but incredibly efficient high-res ...

Canadian audio group Lenbrook has announced today that it has acquired the assets of MQA, the British-based technology company that developed the MQA high-resolution audio encoding technique used by ...

A recent blog post from Hideaki Nishino, senior vice president of platform experience for Sony Interactive Entertainment, announced a beta software release for the PlayStation 5, bringing with it new ...