Originally Posted by ncpl
For every album that gets MQA'd they will no longer need to keep the other legacy versions (i.e. standard FLAC or MP3 etc). The files are backwards compatible.

Imagine the impact longer term with vendors and streaming providers just storing one version.
It's a nice idea, but it would not allow the vendors and streaming providers to differentiate in $ terms between the different qualities.

In the short term, Tidal cannot only stream MQA if it wants to add a tier on top of its existing "CD quality" offering, because customers with MQA decoders get analogue lossless!

Edit: I wonder if they could "nobble" the MQA stream for non-premium subscribers to prevent it being decoded?

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