{"id":160931,"date":"2023-04-29T10:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T09:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=160931"},"modified":"2023-04-29T10:58:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T09:58:02","slug":"tidal-will-soon-start-streaming-flac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/tidal-will-soon-start-streaming-flac\/","title":{"rendered":"TIDAL will soon start streaming FLAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest streaming services\u00a0<b>TIDAL<\/b>\u00a0has announced that it will soon\u00a0begin streaming high-definition music in\u00a0<b>FLAC format as part of its\u00a0<\/b><b>HiFi Plus<\/b>\u00a0subscription .\u00a0Before that TIDAL used this format for broadcasting in standard definition 16\/44.1, and now the turn has come to high-res.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-160932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pasted-65.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pasted-65.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pasted-65-770x509.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whether this decision is related to problems with\u00a0<i>MQA Ltd<\/i>\u00a0, the format of which TIDAL used to broadcast tracks in high resolution, and which we\u00a0talked\u00a0\u00a0about quite recently, is unknown, but the fact of switching to FLAC in itself will insure the service from possible problems.\u00a0This is despite the fact that the\u00a0<b>MQA<\/b>\u00a0format is more efficient and better suited for streaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest streaming services\u00a0TIDAL\u00a0has announced that it will soon\u00a0begin streaming high-definition music in\u00a0FLAC format as part of its\u00a0HiFi Plus\u00a0subscription .\u00a0Before that TIDAL used this format for broadcasting in standard definition 16\/44.1, and now the turn has come to high-res. Whether this decision is related to problems with\u00a0MQA Ltd\u00a0, the format of which TIDAL [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/tidal-will-soon-start-streaming-flac\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":160933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-160931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}