02-09-2021, 03:27 AM
(09-27-2019, 01:38 PM)Tim Curtis Wrote: MQA is a patented, proprietary system with a restrictive license and required fees that have to be paid to use it. There are no implementations of MQA in Open Source audio players because it's illegal to do so. The purpose of the MQA system is to extract revenue from the recording, distribution and playback of music. It has nothing to do with quality because the format uses lossy compression.I appreciate your software product and I understand your pride in it.
The success of proprietary systems like MQA depends entirely on whether major companies in the music and audio electronics industry adopt the system and force it on consumers. This would require them to pay the MQA patent holder the required annual licensing fees, and yes, these fees would be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices. It's the listener that pays for systems like MQA.
Thankfully, Amazon adopted Open Source FLAC (100% lossless) for their HD Music service. This would appear to be a death sentence for MQA. There is simply no need anymore for any company to adopt it.
However, having followed this forum and installed Moode multiple times, I am baffled by your complete animosity toward a single CODEC, MQA here.
I get that you don't intend to directly support it, but is it necessary to bash it continuously? And why not support a passthrough capability?
I have been a Tidal and Qobuz subscriber from their beginnings. Both are good, but since I got a DAC that supports MQA, I almost never go back to Qobuz.
And yes, that is my problem. I get that.
But no one is asking you to love MQA. There are a LOT of other proprietary and arbitrary codecs and transcoders out there.
Why not at least allow it to passthrough, so some of us with MQA capable DACs can get the value out of them?
Thanks for MoOde!