for me, logs indicate that Plexamp is requesting and playing the correct lossless/flac Tidal content
(note, I have a standard Tidal HiFi subscription, not HiFi Plus)
if you have access to a Linux or Mac terminal, go to the directory where Plexamp logs are stored on the playback device and enter the following command after playing some Tidal tracks from your Plex library (yes, it looks ridiculous, but it works ok) …
grep -o '\(\(aac\|flac\), [0-9]* Kbps\|library/parts/[a-z0-9]*-[A-Z]*\)' Plexamp.log
the output for each track should look something like this (if the track is already cached, you won’t see the first line) …
library/parts/158563262-LOSSLESS
flac, 742 Kbps
I will occasionally see lower bitrate AAC, but this is when there’s no FLAC version available from Tidal
Yes, it’s still a little confusing/annoying to have things labeled incorrectly, but to me it looks like Plexamp is playing the right thing
