Something is seriously wrong, and possibly Tidal doesn't know that themselves.
First a conclusion of what's below, because I don't think I knew this : it should be so that the Tidal MQA presentation always was done on the fly. Read : during the playback (download if you will) the album is processed and turned into MQA. This should be derived from the "fact" that the Album ID stayed the same (see below) while today no 24 bit file comes from it. You will believe me when I say that the bottom version was denoted Max.
It may be less easy to grasp that the original MQA album was 24/96, but see below to proved that (2nd picture).
So one hour or so further and I have not been able to find even one album that would be Hires, so what remains is the proof that the Tidal app plays them as Hires. So let's see how we do that ...
Well, no clue. I guess this starts with not being able to play anyway because of (a Tidal message) "There's a network issue - unable to play".
Oh well.
An intermittent other conclusion seems to be that with the one album showing Max and the other showing nothing (= "Lossless") both are always 16/44.1 for those cases I examined and this includes existing ones on my HDD which are 24/48 at the file level. I have no clue / hint about whether these albums now are album-originals (CD's) or that now all flaws over at Tidal's and that Album ID's have been mixed up or what not.
If someone is able to verify the playback rate of the Stevie Wonder album (see in the first picture below) by Tidal app means, please don't hesitate. This should not be done by something like Roon, because that will upsample by default, once it detects MQA (and that tag sure is still in there - it now implies the Max tag).
I suppose it is very well possible that all is now tweaked such, that all prior MQA playback now thinks it is Hires. Why ? well, because
a. It was MQA's prescription for a few years already that upsampling should be done 2x by standard (I just did not comply to that with XXHighEnd);
b. I heard that MQA lights still lit, but that the blue/green led comes not on any more.
Ad b.: This would testify that officially MQA was shut off, but that we are fooled as much as we already were. Just by full automation. You can't see it on anything. Yea, with XXHighEnd ...
Or download the files and throw some knowledge at it (look at the file size - play through Foobar and *know* that it s*cks to begin with or else you'd be sure to do something wrong (while you are doing it right).
Pfff