[Ookamikun]

Hi community,

I just noticed this while testing some DACs. When I connect the DAC (any DAC) with USB to my android phone, Tidal asks for permission and I get sound. When the track changes and the next track has a different quality, e.g. track 1 is max and track 2 is high quality, I suddenly lose sound but the track keeps playing.
Depending on the DAC I need to reconnect it, restart the DAC or switch from USB to something else and back.

Is that behavior known? Any way to mitigate this?
This makes a USB DAC with Tidal quite unusable.

 

[msing539]

Depending on the DAC I need to reconnect it, restart the DAC or switch from USB to something else and back.

Is that behavior known? Any way to mitigate this?
This makes a USB DAC with Tidal quite unusable.

Which dacs exhibit this and which don't?

 

[Ookamikun]

I can say 100% that it happened with shanling H5 and xDSD Gryphon but I think it also happened with Mojo 2 and Ifi hip dac3.

 

[msing539]

I am running into an issue switching between High and Max, but on PC:

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/tidal-lossless-streaming.733233/post-18080049

 

[Ookamikun]

Your issue sounds quite weird, too! I don't think they are related, though.
Or maybe they are and it's time to ditch Tidal...

 

[msing539]

Confirmed for me, too. LG V60, Android 13, iFi Go Bar

If I give Tidal exclusive access to the Go Bar, MQA and FLAC do not 'always' play unless I disconnect and reconnect USB. However, if I skip forward some songs, I'll occasionally come across an MQA or FLAC file that will play on Max. This also causes some High encodes to not play.

If I do not give Tidal exclusive access, everything plays. Doesn't sound great though.

 

[Ookamikun]

Thanks a lot for confirming! Wow okay, I was hoping that maybe it was because of my weird Android version (CalyxOS).
I didn't know that it would work without giving Tidal exclusive access.

Maybe it works without problems using UAPP?

 

[Ookamikun]

Had the chance to test it with UAPP Trial and it was no problem to listen to different audio quality songs.
However, I couldn't use the Pro version because of CalyxOS which is de-googled...

I got the Gryphon in the end which is great. The Mojo2 and Shanling H7 were also very good.

When I tested it, I thought the bug went away because I tested it with Low quality song --> MQA song, which worked and played both songs correctly.
However, after coming home I noticed that low quality song --> MQA song --> low quality song didn't work
Man, that is so freaking frustrating...

I will use the Gryphon on my desktop for now which worked perfectly from the start and hope that UAPP works on my next phone where I will install GrapheneOS...

Should have gone with a DAP, damn...