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Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically (www.techradar.com)
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[–] thrawn@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’ve preferred Qobuz to Tidal since they were hocking MQA snake oil and lying about being lossless. Tidal eventually stopped using MQA, but I can’t help feel leftover ick at their dishonesty.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

MQA was so weird, replacing a perfectly fine lossless open codec that plays on everything with a proprietary lossy codec that plays on barely anything. Also, so many people suddenly telling you that MQA sounds better than FLAC.

I once wrote a downloader for Tidal and always "downgraded" to 16-bit FLAC when I detected the "high quality" version is in MQA format.