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16  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Recent Tidal Masters on: February 06, 2023, 05:27:52 pm
Hi Peter

When I said "Even 44/16 MQA albums work." in an earlier post I only meant the files played OK I recognized then that they just upsampled and did not unfold.

I have done more tests by playing tracks using my DAC into soundcard and generating FFT spectrums and averaging about 10s music. With no upsampling applied by XXHE. Comparing with decoding on and off. I can quite clearly see if they unfold to get data above 22KHz

Results are attached, my conclusions relating to Tidal albums so far are:-

48/24 MQA all decode correctly

44/24 MQA only 1 found so far that decodes this one from 2L.

44/16 MQA not found any that unfold.

Next I will try measuring some 44/24 files by playing from the Tidal App .

Regards
Colin
17  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Recent Tidal Masters on: February 01, 2023, 05:32:35 pm
Hi Peter

Updated 2.2.23:-

I generated some spectrograms 48/24 & 44/24 MQA files do show data above 24/22 KHz but no 44/16KHz MQA files I have tried show any content above 22KHz.

Bob Stuarts info does imply to me that MQA16 should also decode (unfold).

https://bobtalks.co.uk/a-deeper-look/deeper-look-mqa-16b-in-the-last-mile/

Best Regards
Colin
18  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Recent Tidal Masters on: January 31, 2023, 11:24:41 am
Hi Peter

You established that the 44/16 Tidal Masters don't unfold in XXHE and I agree with that finding.

Do we know for sure that XXHE will unfold genuine MQA16. If there is doubt about this I thought it might be possible verify this by buying an MQA-CD and ripping it for replay with XXHE. There are MQA-CD's which can be purchased on ebay.

Best Regards
Colin
19  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Recent Tidal Masters on: January 02, 2023, 06:04:09 pm
Thank's for the explanation. The justification of editing the 44/16 MTT files is just that they do play in XXHE with MQA decoding enabled, so I don't have remember whether I have to turn off decoding.
I fully accept the 44/16 albums in Tidal and marked as MQA will not have best SQ but if I like the music I can always look elsewhere for a better version.

Regard
Colin
20  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Recent Tidal Masters on: December 30, 2022, 10:24:47 am
Hi Peter, try this one:-
https://tidal.com/browse/artist/9985127

Its 44/16 unfolds to 88 and plays fine after editing the MTT files.

Quite a few recent additions to Tidal are 44/16. Apparently CD's with MQA are available now so I think they are genuine.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/mqa-encoded-cds-yes

I have worked through my library of Tidal downloads and edited the MTT files and they all play.
Just a few would not play with a custom filter but they all play with Arc Predict.

I use the Tidal App to find albums & copy/paste the share link into XXHE TT search.

Regards
Colin
21  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Recent Tidal Masters on: December 30, 2022, 08:51:26 am
To speed up editing the MTT files I have created 2 macros using Macro Toolworks free edition.
Download and install it:- https://www.pitrinec.com/download
Copy the 2 attached macros to the Toolworks macro folder.
Start Toolworks and open both the macros.
Attached jpeg MQA Macro Start shows what it should look like.
Open the first .MTT file and position cursor below last line of text (as in jpeg).
When you stream a Tidal album note sample rate, the MQARate will be twice this.

If MQARate is already there without a value just highlight it before running the macro.

ctl+8 runs the 88200 macro or ctl+9 runs the 96000 macro.

Result should be like attached jpeg MQA Macro Done.
Close MTT file and repeat for remaining MTT files.

I have streamed a lot of MQA albums and all play well after editing the MQARate. Even 44/16 MQA albums work.

Good Luck & Happy New Year
Colin
22  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Recent Tidal Masters on: November 09, 2022, 05:20:05 pm
In defence of Tidal/MQA I have been going through my previous downloads and adding the MQADATA rate to the .mtt files (see first post of this topic) and they all unfold and play OK. Had to do this to all downloads in past 12 months. Amongst them were 44.1, 48, 88.2 and 96K before unfolding files.

I did find this album
https://tidal.com/browse/album/60714019
 which I downloaded 17 months ago and already had
MQADATA d44100 played but did not unfold. change to d88200 and files unfolded and played OK.

So for the time being at least I am happy using Tidal & editing MQADATA if necessary .

Colin




 
23  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Recent Tidal Masters on: November 06, 2022, 12:12:07 pm
Recent Tidal Master give error message when I try to play them:-
File Allocated but cannot play...........

I found that the track .flac.mtt files do not contain a value in MQARATE :
Looking at MQA albums that do play I saw that the MQARATE : should be twice the rate displayed by XXHE when you add an album to Play list.
I edited the .flac.mtt files to include the appropriate MQARATE and album decoded & played OK.
Example: https://tidal.com/browse/album/228798472

See attached edited file

Colin
24  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Music Server Connection Problem on: December 05, 2021, 11:15:55 am
I have lost connection to my Music Server mapped folder.
I can still connect with RDC to the Audio PC but the Audio PC no longer sees the Music PC mapped folder.
I've put Audio PC back to normal OS and gone through setup instructions again, shared folder on music pc is definitely setup OK but Audio PC still does not see the music folder.
Ran Network Troubleshooting on Music PC and it says "ethernet doesn't have a valid IP configuration"
Lots of stuff about this issue on web but non of the fixes suggested that I tried worked.
Music PC is W10 20H2 last updated 16.11.21 with the 2021-11 update.

Colin
25  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: MQA 44.1 problems on: November 12, 2021, 04:49:30 pm
Hi Peter

Any news on the new XXHE version.

Most of the recent MQA additions to Tidal only play in XXHE with MQA decoding turned off.

However those that I have played from the Tidal app do play at the unfolded sample rate. I checked this by measuring the LRCK frequency in my DAC.

Best Regards
Colin
26  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Tidal / MQA - Update - Heading 2.12 on: September 09, 2021, 05:52:42 pm
Hi Peter

I have some MQA albums which are 24bit/48K but don't play with MQA decoding switch on. I Just get blank screen with message 'device allocated but can't play
2/24/384000/2304000/6'

It should be 192000 for my DAC and is if I switch off MQA Decoding and then it plays OK.

Example:-
https://tidal.com/browse/album/194761739

Regards, Colin
27  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Playback jumps to next track prematurely on: June 05, 2021, 04:30:25 pm
Thanks David,

I tried your suggestion. Actually I created a new album folder & copied the contents of the Streams folder to it. Chose the Dave Holland album that is 24/48 and prematurely jumps with MQA decoding turned on. From the folder (streams) it plays fine.

https://tidal.com/browse/album/175754495

So for me this is a better solution than having to switch off MQA for the problem albums.

Sound quality seems ok, could download a track from Quobuz to compare its available there 16/44 & 24/96.

Colin
28  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Playback jumps to next track prematurely on: May 31, 2021, 08:35:24 am
Hi Peter

Most of so called 'Master' albums I have downloaded recently have the problem of jumping prematurely to next track so we take to not really be MQA.

Some of these are 48K/24 bit EG:-
https://tidal.com/browse/album/175754495

Is it possible to add a button on the Playback screen to allow MQA decoding to be switched on/off without having to go into Settings each time, would also help if MQA status could be shown in unattended play.

Best Regards
Colin
29  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Tidal Times are over on: May 10, 2021, 05:24:02 pm
What bit rate do they play at ?. If its 1411 they are fake MQA but should play ok with MQA switched off in XXHE setting.

Colin
30  Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: MQA: A Review of controversies, concerns, and cautions on: May 02, 2021, 05:19:19 pm
More analysis/review of MQA:-

https://youtu.be/pRjsu9-Vznc

Colin
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