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Now play some track, which is available in “Master” quality for Tidal or in “Ultra HD” for AmazonMusic.

If Audials asks you to start/restart player – agree to do it:.

If you see any other format – click on “Output format” button and select FLAC as output format for “High-Resolution audio”

Make sure you see “FLAC” label in selected quality format description.

In Audials mini-window select max possible quality:.

I want to record track in lossless quality from Amazon Music or Tidal. In Tidal tracks, available in lossless quality, are marked by “Master” label: You can click on this label to check track is really available in FLAC, 24 bit, 96 kHz: In Amazon Music tracks, available in lossless quality are marked by “Ultra HD” label. Not every service has this feature, and even if it does – not every track is available in this quality. Some services also provide lossless (FLAC) tracks. Some services stream audio only in “lossy” formats, like MP3 or AAC. Here it is possible to select FLAC as output format for “High-resolution audio”:Įach audio streaming service has some set of audio formats, which are used for streaming. Click on “Format” button in footer to open “Output format” dialog.

What about FLAC in Audials?Īudials supports encoding to FLAC.

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Also, not every hardware or software is compatible with FLAC format. The price is pretty big size of FLAC file and some CPU resources to encode/decode it. FLAC encoder doesn’t drop any samples, doesn’t cut high/low frequencies and output audio file will be sample-to-sample equal to input audio stream. It means than FLAC encoder tries to make size of audio data smaller, but it will never make its quality worse. According to Wikipedia, this is “ audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio”.