352.8 khz and MQA titles on Deezer.

Hey @JakobG 

Thanks a lot for that!

Can you perhaps make a playlist of all the titles? I'd like to share that further with our devs 

Hello Rudi 

I made a list already 

You can find it on related topics : 

" List of MQA titles on Deezer " 

Hey @JakobG 

Thank you! I've seen it.

But I was thinking more of a playlist, with the Deezer links. Is that something you can do? By adding the titles to a public playlist? 

Dear Rudi 

I made this one and hopefully you can find it on deezer, let me know!  

👍

Thanks a lot, bud @JakobG 

I found it! 

I've added to my favourites, as well 

Here’s another one and I can confirm, that the above album is indeed MQA.

 

Playback system:

BlueSound Node 2i coax output to

Lyngdorf TDAI 2200 RoomPerfect Amp

Lyngdorf SDA 2400 Amp

Lyngdorf DP1 + BW1 Speakers 

Hi Jakob,

What app are those captures from?

I use UAPP but Deezer is not part of their supported streaming services.

Regards

Found another one!  

Hi Jakob,

The MQA logo and sampling freq. on the notification bar is put there by the Deezer app?

If so, is the OS IOS or Android?

If not, what app is doing that?

Hi Jof 

Here you can see an example of MQA decoding by the DAC and show by USB audio PRO app

Hello Jof. 

USB audio Pro doesn't support Deezer. 

I think they do not know that Deezer has hi-res music. 

I don't need USB audio Pro necessarily to stream music from Deezer. 

My device ( Fiio M11Pro ) allways shows the sample Freq and - when present- MQA. 

The Fiio connected to my masterclock ( playing Deezer)  gives a very high-end sound that - in my opinion - even betters Tidal and Qobuz. 

Everybody is yelling MQA!  MQA!  

The story is that MQA is lossless,  but it isn't. In my opinion MQA is a little bit to late. 10 years ago it would be top. 

Nowadays we can stream and store immense files and compression is not necessarily needed anymore. 

Don't stare yourself blind on sample freqenties and bits. Music stands or fall by the recording and mastering. 

A recording from ECM f.i on 16bit/ 44 khz sounds most of time far better than the usual recordings. 

16 bits is more than enough headroom and 96kHz more than fantastic in your room. 

Regards Jakob 

Hmm… so it’s only available on mobile devices with certain DACs connected to them? I don’t see this functionality on a desktop, and even if the files were indeed different from our standard FLACs that would necessitate bit and resolution mode switching from Deezer app itself, which it doesn’t do. Does that mean that mobile apps have a different way to pass the audio, bypassing the native decoders and just dumping the stream over to the DAC which would automagically select the correct mode for playback? Hmm…

All in all I would prefer either more hi-res (but still standard) FLACs and/or DSD. Both are open-source, standard, lossless, and perform quite well. Along with mode switching for whatever audio hardware you’re using. The concept works quite well in Swinsian app on macos: https://swinsian.com 

Hallo Buckie. 

Some mobile devices have there own DAC,  such ass Fiio or Astell & Kern f.i. 

The Fiio i own has the feature to upsample everything to DSD ( not that i use this much)  

Here you can see an example. Playing Joni Mitchell on Deezer you can see that the Fiio upsamples this song to 2.8mHz ( DSD)  .

When i play some songs from the 2L label on Deezer nothing is upsampled. The stream is a right away 352.8kHz MQA. 

Jakob 

Hey @Buckie 

I get you completely but we're also waiting for a reply from our Partnerships teams about this. They've been so busy recently with massive connectivity projects for this year (finally we'll see a lot of improvements in this area, after so much demand from the community). And based on what I've known, we've had a brief partnership with MQA in the past - this isn't something we're actively working with at the moment - but we're waiting to see if this is something our predecessors have set up a while ago.

So it's like a rare find, which we still need to dig deeper to get to the bottom of it. I'll be in touch once we have more info.

Hi @Rudi 

Any update on this? 

FWIW, many of the quoted tracks are definitely MQA - or at least my iFi ZEN DAC is decoding/unfolding them as such… 

Is this something you’re likely to resurrect, or provide higher-than-cd quality (MQA, DSD, DXD, etc) in the future?

cheers,

Matt

Hi guys, how can I see the streaming quality like on your posted screenshoots? Maybe I´m blind but can´t find any option on iPhone app; only “HiFi”, that´s it. Or are you using a additional player/software? Thanks in advance.