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That's so odd. I'm playing from the same page perfect in Safari.

What is "the Safari tech preview"? And why did you play from a browser when you should be playing in Audirvana

Weird. We don't do Flash.

What browser was this in? And what page?

I can save you a lot of hassle. What we have is delivered directly over FTP from the record label. Except some very specific cases the files are exactly the same redbook files the label would print on CD and call CD. Only difference would be the quality of the error correction of your disc player and the ripper itself. Which means if there was a difference, it was the CD rip being different from the original redbook file delivered by the label. Best, Pål

MQA is not lossy compression.

You'd be surprised how sincere record labels are when working with their recording archives. To convert and qc is not a very difficult thing. It's just a lot of music. And you won't have to sit and do active listening on every track unless you want to. The key is that MQA is a wonderful archiving format as well as streaming format so anyone a bit pragmatic will get that a lot of music content will come.

They don't have to be remastered individually. It is entirely possible to batch convert, but someone (read artists, producers, mastering engineers or label) should QC.

We have been focusing on making Exclusive Mode and WASAPI work and now it does. Speculations above on content are...well... speculations and not analysis. We would not just take redbook and batch convert without any qc just like that. Even though that would speed things up and give a high volume of files. But that would be missing the point about MQA completely. It's important to take the time it takes to do properly. Or else it would just be another codec.

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Right now, TIDAL is available in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States of America.

Hi, Jimmypowder. Have you tried in the last week or so. We have turned on a huge Akamai CDN rig and a lot of other improvements. From our logs we run 99.x% crash free sessions and dropouts have gone down radically, and is actually declining the more traffic coming in.

Love MusicScope. Use it all the time to look at whether things are high-res, if they have been upsampled from lossy etc.

But, Chris - you can do this on the fly with MusicScope from Xivero AND not break with your EULA with any of the services. Why hijack the file when you can do instant analysis on the stream itself? So much more fun.

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