After an awkward debut of the FLAC format on Tidal's Hi-Fi Plus subscription tier, the service now lets you see which tracks use FLAC and which use MQA.
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, there was no way to know which one you were getting unless you used an external digital-to-analog converter .
Recommended Videos However, when Tidal debuted the new FLAC versions, it came with several disappointing caveats. You couldn’t filter your searches by your preferred format, and there was no way to even see which format you were getting unless you used an external DAC. Unsurprisingly, audiophiles in both FLAC and MQA camps were frustrated.
Eventually, these concerns will become mostly academic. Tidal’s new policy is that when it adds a 24-bit FLAC version of a given track, that song will no longer be available to stream in MQA. It may take a while, but there will come a time when the entire Max collection will be exclusively available in FLAC.
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