This post is a year old, and it seems from the comments that it might not have been a Tidal problem and instead something from the source, as similar problems a

This post is a year old, and it seems from the comments that it might not have been a Tidal problem and instead something from the source, as similar problems appeared in the MP3s from Google Play and CDBaby. I'm not a huge fan of Tidal's "master quality" MQAs though, which I don't think are actually lossless even though they're advertised heavily as being the original master quality. (MQA stands for master quality authenticated, and the MQA site is full of technobabble about folding the file to make it smaller (10% the size!) and then unfolding it one, two, or three times depending on your equipment, etc). (https://www.mqa.co.uk/how-it-works https://www.mqa.co.uk/how-it-works)