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” More concerning, Tidal actually did not offer a lossless version of my track. And i've since found that whilst a track/album NOT marked as "master", it will genuinely stream lossless. For any track/album where it IS marked as "master", the 'hifi' setting simply streams the MQA file but without MQA flagging and does not unfold it. It is the same file!!
This means that for any track marked as "Master", Tidal no longer offers a lossless version, you ONLY have compressed, or lossy MQA.
Tidal also shows absolutely 0 indication about what the original master sample rate was, even though this info is included in the file and services such as roon will display it.