Yesterday I used a tool from GitHub to scan my music collection for MQA-encoded content, and it turned up quite a bit (some I knew of, some I did not.) While I have an Explorer 2 headphone DAC, and I have confirmed the LED lights when playing direct to it, I would kind of like to try playing them one of my real systems, which are sadly all too old to decode MQA. I know there's some commercial software out there which will do the "first unfold" when playing directly to an output, but I'm a Linux household so the options are limited and mostly cost £lol just to try out, even assuming I could get the bits to my G68s.

I'm assuming since the Lensbrook purchase, MQA Ltd. has repositioned themselves as a production tooling company rather than something a consumer ever sees as it looks like they're selling the individual parts of the "white glove" process but no longer the actual MQA encoder. Does that mean no new MQA-encoded content? Does it mean my MQA-encoded owned content is now essentially unplayable unless I use hardware from a very specific window of time? Can somebody licence the decoder for personal use? Or is the whole thing dead now and we should move on? (In which case, I'll think about stripping the LSB byte from all the recordings and save myself a few GB!)

B.