Tidal Masters post possibly hundreds of Universal Music Group titles


The first fruits of the announcement earlier this year that UMG will support MQA are now appearing, totally unheralded as Master recordings on Tidal. I have found dozens and dozens of titles from artists sprinkled throughout their catalog. At this point it seems mostly focused on the Capitol pop catalog and the DG classical one, although I have seen a few Philips and Decca recordings, too.  The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, The Band, Nat King Cole, Glen Campbell, Iron Maiden, Tina Turner, Daniel Barenboim, Herbert von Karajan, Gustavo Dudamel...just to name a few.

Preliminary auditions are also favorable. Listening to  "The Band" right now. "A drunkards dream" indeed.
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The M is for Master quality tracks. You need a DAC that can process MQA files in order to take advantage of that feature from what I understand.

The buffering is the app negotiating with your internet connection. If you can adjust your router/modem to produce a stronger signal you might not see that anymore.

Tidal HIFI/MASTER is entirely worth it IMO.