Hey, I’ve got a few duplicates with some items in both MQA and 24/48.
Any way we can get a badge by the MQA ones so we know which is which? I like to leave my MQA playing to MQA capable devices only.
AFAIK Plex doesn’t support MQA at all.
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That’s right, there is no support for MQA in Plex, or PlexAmp. I’m looking for some sort of tag to be added to make sure I am choosing the copy of the album that is not MQA encoded when using Plex. Presently, there is no way to differentiate:
Shouldn’t it use a separate file extension, instead of flac?
No. FLAC is just a container.
Does it matter? I thought the point is that it was still backwards compatible. If the player/device doesn’t support MQA, you get standard playback at 24/48, correct?
I have multiple albums in my library that are from different masters and there’s currently no way to tell them apart if I’m out and using PlexAmp on the go.
I’m asking for a tag to differentiate between various recordings of the same albums, not to give Plex or PlexAmp MQA capability, or to simply play MQA songs on Plex without the unfold - I don’t want to play them at all when I have other versions better suited to my current listening conditions.
Plex doesn’t have support for MQA. Therefore it also cannot distinguish flac files with MQA encoding from regular flac files.
The backwards “compatibility” of MQA is responsible for this.
I’d avoid MQA in general. The whole approach is highly problematic, the promise of packing “master quality” into only slightly bigger files than regular 44.1/16 flac is dubious at best.
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I guess you could rename your MQA albums to put that in the title. Or just move them to a folder that Plex doesn’t scan seeing as there is no point to having them in Plex.
Yeah cheers for the opinion Mr. Cliche internet mod. Way to turn a feature request into a subjective discussion about file formats. Maybe I’ll just delete all my MQA music and sell my DAC. Much easier than a tag being added to some software that’s still in beta, right?
Btw, good brushing up on your knowledge via google, but maybe you should’ve got on the case a bit earlier back when you thought MQA had a different file extension toFLAC.
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wow, please be nice to @OttoKerner, he’s only trying to help.
for what it’s worth, i had no clue MQA was stored inside .flac files either.
given that we don’t support the format, we wouldn’t be able to distinguish between a vanilla flac and one with whatever MQA adds.
if you’re willing to provide a sample file, i’ll file an issue internally around it, but in general we have zero support for MQA.
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Are there any plans to support MQA? I agree with @gibgun not just tagging for MQA but support for MQA is desired
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I am all for help, but this seemed a lot more of a case of a forum mod gatekeeping and shutting down potentially valuable dialogue about a great product that is still in its beta.
I truly appreciate that it is a necessity to reduce the ‘noise’ between a userbase and the development team, but the responses were clearly biased towards shutting the conversation down as quickly as possible - going as far as saying ‘well use a different file format then’ when FLAC is supported was a little ridiculous.
Huge fan of Plex, and I’m not exaggerating when I say Plexamp has changed my life. I was simply enthusiastic to make a potential improvement suggestion. But I felt the need to be pretty candid about what I felt was fairly poor behaviour by a mod here.
Edit: Many thanks for offering to look into options. Sample file can be found here.
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