Somnath Khole Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 @andrewilley Is PA Supports MQA ? Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/28563-does-poweramp-support-mqa-audio/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 4 hours ago, Somnath Khole said: Is PA Supports MQA ? Very unlikely, MQA is a somewhat esoteric lossy proprietary format, mainly designed for streaming use, which requires license payments. As the saying goes, the nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from, and if you don't like any of them you can just wait for next year's model. Andre Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/28563-does-poweramp-support-mqa-audio/#findComment-133112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somnath Khole Posted November 11 Author Share Posted November 11 @andrewilley If MQA is a lossy format then how is it possible to encode it in flac. Bit Confusing 🤔 Tried On Fiio Music after Subscription of INR 180. Sounds Great. Improved Sound Quality. Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/28563-does-poweramp-support-mqa-audio/#findComment-133115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Quality_Authenticated Andre Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/28563-does-poweramp-support-mqa-audio/#findComment-133116 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzian Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 A solution without a problem, aka snake oil. Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/28563-does-poweramp-support-mqa-audio/#findComment-133117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 3 hours ago, Fitzian said: A solution without a problem, aka snake oil. But proprietary snake oil, so mainly for the licencing bucks. Even Tidal dropped it earlier this year. To be honest, "MQA Ltd prohibits digital output of unpacked MQA in any digital format, only allowing the unpacked data to be fed to an on-board MQA-compatible DAC and output in analogue form" would kill it even without the fee. Andre Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/28563-does-poweramp-support-mqa-audio/#findComment-133121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somnath Khole Posted November 12 Author Share Posted November 12 @andrewilley Agreed 👍 My INR 180 Wasted Successfully. Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/28563-does-poweramp-support-mqa-audio/#findComment-133125 Share on other sites More sharing options...
6b6561 Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 23 hours ago, Somnath Khole said: @andrewilley If MQA is a lossy format then how is it possible to encode it in flac. Bit Confusing 🤔 Tried On Fiio Music after Subscription of INR 180. Sounds Great. Improved Sound Quality. You can also convert MP3 to FLAC, the resulting FLAC file will be lossless, but you will inherit the losses from the previous formats. I would say that MQA is something like a high quality lossy codec with strong DRM, so quite much a commercial product. I just stumbled upon an article about Tidal moving away from MQA and most of their content is already FLAC, there is some remnants still to be converted. https://support.tidal.com/hc/en-us/articles/25876825185425-Audio-Format-Updates Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/28563-does-poweramp-support-mqa-audio/#findComment-133127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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