With major music labels such as Universal, Warner Bros and Sony Music offering music in MQA, there was a time when we thought more music streaming services would get in on the action too. Unsurprisingly, many MQA-supporting hi-fi brands are now supporting Tidal Connect. Essentially Spotify Connect for Tidal, it allows the native Tidal app to be a controller for connected devices – like Chromecast can, only Connect supports Tidal's MQA and Dolby Atmos Music catalogue. Tidal HiFi Plus subscribers can now easily 'cast' MQA Tidal Masters from the app to compatible kit, too, thanks to a new feature called Tidal Connect. However, the only way to entirely unpackage an MQA file for playback, and therefore give you a more accurate representation of the file, is by pairing the app with an MQA-compatible product (as listed above) that takes the decoding process away from the software (the Tidal app). These apps can complete the first 'unfold' of MQA file decoding, outputting streams to a maximum of 24-bit/96kHz. If Tidal Hi-Fi Plus subscribers don't have MQA-supporting hardware, they can still play Tidal's "millions" of Masters tracks through the Tidal desktop, Android and iOS apps, which can decode and play them through, say, your phone or Macbook.
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