Something very strange

[Jimbob54]

Shout when you see it.

 

[mansr]

Not sure which of all the oddities you're thinking of, but you should let Qobuz know about the MQA content so they can complain to the label.

 

[CDMC]

The fact that it does a sample conversion from 88.2 to 96khz for no good reason or that MQA is supposed to store all the info in a 44.1/48khz 16 bit container and there is no such thing as 352khz mqa?

 

[Jimbob54]

The fact that it does a sample conversion from 88.2 to 96khz for no good reason or that MQA is supposed to store all the info in a 44.1/48khz 16 bit container and there is no such thing as 352khz mqa?

And its on qobuz, which doesn't "do" mqa

(the 88 to 96 upsample is mine. One dac won't play 88 nicely)

 

[Jimbob54]

Not sure which of all the oddities you're thinking of, but you should let Qobuz know about the MQA content so they can complain to the label.

The really odd bit is that I transferred this from tidal library to qobuz when moved recently. On tidal it was the only >192 album I found. I think they found a way to cheat the mqa flags. No other qobuz file has reported mqa

 

[Jimbob54]

The fact that it does a sample conversion from 88.2 to 96khz for no good reason or that MQA is supposed to store all the info in a 44.1/48khz 16 bit container and there is no such thing as 352khz mqa?

Every mqa file I've seen (although only on tidal) was 24 bit iirc

 

[mansr]

The really odd bit is that I transferred this from tidal library to qobuz when moved recently. On tidal it was the only >192 album I found. I think they found a way to cheat the mqa flags. No other qobuz file has reported mqa

Labels occasionally deliver MQA to Qobuz despite it not being ordered. MQA's poster child 2L, for instance, has done this.

Are you able to capture a few seconds of the track without any MQA decoding or other processing? It's easy enough to check whether it is MQA or Roon misdetected it. There have been reports of the latter too.

 

[Jimbob54]

Labels occasionally deliver MQA to Qobuz despite it not being ordered. MQA's poster child 2L, for instance, has done this.

Are you able to capture a few seconds of the track without any MQA decoding or other processing? It's easy enough to check whether it is MQA or Roon misdetected it. There have been reports of the latter too.

This is indeed a 2L recording! Some nordic classical comp!

 

[Jimbob54]

Labels occasionally deliver MQA to Qobuz despite it not being ordered. MQA's poster child 2L, for instance, has done this.

Are you able to capture a few seconds of the track without any MQA decoding or other processing? It's easy enough to check whether it is MQA or Roon misdetected it. There have been reports of the latter too.

No capturing ability. See previous re 2L. Suspect they've just sent qobuz same files as tidal. Presumably the streaming companies stream whatever they are given but specify certain limits /format restrictions. Presume they don't check automatically and the file might just present as standard flac on a simple scan

 

[mansr]

Write to Qobuz and tell them you're disappointed to find MQA in their catalogue. It's important to push back against this crap.

 

[Jimbob54]

Write to Qobuz and tell them you're disappointed to find MQA in their catalogue. It's important to push back against this crap.

I'll let them know. I'm more ambivalent to than I am anti mqa but I get the strong feelings anything resembling drm and snake oily generates.