MQA creator goes bankrupt and Tidal announces changes

The creator of the MQA format, e.g Reported by WhatHiFi, a popular magazine and website run by Future, a popular multimedia company established in 1985 in the United Kingdom. Hence, Tidal, the streaming service that has adopted MQA as the platform’s main format, has announced that it will be making changes to its app. The topic was discussed in a post on Reddit and below you can see the details.

MQA creator declares bankruptcy

last week, WhatHiFi reported the site That the company responsible for creating the MQA format went bankrupt. The company is said to have stated the following:

Following the recent positive reception of the latest MQA technology (SCL6), international interest in the acquisition of MQA Ltd. has increased. At the same time, the main supporter of MQA is looking for a way out. Opportunities and streamlining the process, the company has undergone a restructuring initiative, which includes going into administration and is comparable to a US Chapter 11.

During this process, MQA continues to trade normally alongside its partners.

We will not comment further while negotiations are in progress.

The company responsible for creating MQA declares bankruptcy and Tidal announces the changes. Source: Vitor Valeri

today (12), Said the website of the American magazine Billboard That in the UK, when a company declares bankruptcy, the state protects the insolvent company from creditors for a period of time. According to reports, this “breathing space” gives the company a chance to somehow get out of its financial troubles. There is also a scenario where a court-appointed trustee advises the company to take steps such as selling assets to pay off debts.

Tidal announces changes to its platform as MQA creator goes bankrupt

Jesse DorogosukerTidal CEO, A AMA (Ask Me Anything or Ask Me Anything) In the subreddit “TidaL”. In a comment created by Jesse (“TIDAL_Jesse” on Reddit), says Tidal was interested in high-quality and even experimental audio formats long before they were legal or popular among streaming music services. The reason for this concern, according to Tidal’s CEO, is “because artists care about making their art and want/expect their work to be presented in the best way.” This statement is directly related to Bob Stewart’s intent when creating the MQA format, which was to bring “studio quality” to streaming music. According to its developer, MQA was created based on “recent neuroscience research”.

Traditional encoding in formats like FLAC discards information to reduce size, Pope says, while MQA captures the entire signal and performs a process called “folding”. This folding causes the audio file to be smaller than the FLAC song. That’s why, Jesse says in his Reddit comment “We live in a world dominated by mobile devices and mobiles have limitations on memory, data plans and coverage maps – so there’s always consideration for customer needs among more quality and more bandwidth/storage efficiency.”

As mentioned above, the company responsible for creating MQA went bankrupt. Since Tidal used the MQA format as its premium feature for transferring songs, there was a need for the company to explain what happened. Then that was Jesse Dorogosuker made a comment In his AMA (Ask Me Anything) on the “TIdaL” subreddit, where he says:

We will soon be introducing FLAC Hi-Res to our HiFi Plus subscribers. It is a lossless and open standard. It’s a big file, but we’ll give you controls to dial up and down based on what’s going on.

What will change in the tide?

According to the CEO of Tidal, The broadcast application will stop using MQA and replace it with high-resolution audio files in the FLAC format. Since the company knows this will result in higher data usage on the platform, that being said Users will have a way to increase or decrease the bit rate (data stream) as needed.

With this change, Tidal’s Hi-Fi and Hi-Fi Plus plans will offer:

Tidal Hi-Fi Plus Plan: “High-Resolution” FLAC (minimum 24-bit/96kHz), Dolby Atmos, Sony 360 Reality Audio
Tidal Hi-Fi Plan: FLAC 16-bit / 44.1 kHz (CD quality)

What will be the maximum supported resolution for transferring FLAC files on the Hi-Fi Plus plan hasn’t been announced, but it’s believed to be at least 24-bit/192kHz, as practiced by Qobuz, Apple Music, and Amazon music services.