Tidal FLAC vs. Qobuz

@p05129 I too was angry that Tidal didn’t honor their agreement with Best Buy’s customers and negated those who had already paid for a year’s subscription and forced us to start paying the full monthly price - without offering a discount for a yearly subscription. So far, I’m still with Tidal, but yeah, that definitely rubbed me the wrong way and makes Tidal "expensive" compared to yearly subscriptions of Apple Music and Amazon HD. After jumping through hoops using a 3rd party software (TuneMyMusic, which is not free for large collections, I had to temporarily subscribe to it, do the transfer, then cancel) to transfer all my Spotify albums, tracks, and playlists to Tidal, I guess I’ll stick it out and see how it goes, and if they’ll ever offer a yearly discount again.

One cool thing about TuneMyMusic was that I was also able to download a comma delimited file (.XLS format) of all my music.  That was a definite plus. 

The upshot is Tidal seems to be abandoning MQA and moving to FLAC. But for now, much of the catalog is still available in lossy MQA. I have Tidal but none of my DACs support MQA so I’m glad for this development. Also note that MQA has been rebranded by the company that bought them out to another acronym I can’t recall right now. MQA might have had a purpose for about 5 years or so when the Internet was mostly DSL in speeds, but now, with people getting down 100Mbps or more, there’s little reason to use it anymore at all. I don’t "hate" it, but just see it as a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist anymore. Thinking the current licensing scheme adds about $5 to $10 to a DAC, no biggie.

Once Qobuz ever has a "Connect" app and streamers support it, I’ll give it a shot, but for the most part, I’ve been happy with Tidal. Even Deezer would be cool if they too had a connect app to make life easier.

I’m confused, which is somewhat normal these days, but isn’t the whole purpose of Tidal Connect is that you pass off the streaming URL directly from the Internet to the Bluesound Vault via the Ethernet cable from your modem/router? No lossy Bluetooth should be involved at all. Parker65310 said, "Support came in their 4.0 software release.", so maybe you should look into that if needed.

I mean, if a $219 WiiM Pro Plus can do this task, surely the Bluesound Vault can too.