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One hope I have for this service is that it will have a tier like Qobuz which offers (discounted) purchase of MQA files for download.
It was always very difficult to purchase MQA encoded albums and I’m not sure why? Clearly this was a flawed business model, essentially leaving all eggs in one basket - Tidal - and we know how that worked out.
I would like to actually permanently own some of my favourite albums in MQA to ensure I continue to have access to them in future, plus streaming lots more.
There is also an environmental benefit to downloading, at least once you have streamed something enough times to ensure you will listen to it again and again. Streaming is far from free in terms of energy costs, and downloading once is much better in this regard.
The terrible fires raging in L.A. should be a wake-up call, if any were needed, that every little thing we can do to reduce our carbon footprint is essential. MQA’s reduced bandwidth is useful in this regard, the option of MQA downloads would be even better.
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