Sonos Developer Platform VS TIDAL Masters

No, but maybe this is helpful: https://developer.sonos.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

No. And it's likely that will not change. The YTM integration via developer.sonos.com is incredibly basic compared to other services such as Spotify. It is well-known how terrible YTM integration is with Sonos. Source: almost 2 years ago

They have read disk access to the actual encrypted music files hosted by that services' Content Distribution Network (CDN) servers. When you select a track on the S2 App or any other online music service, your Sonos player will connect to via that service's integration (developer.sonos.com) to grab that content. Source: almost 2 years ago

Spotify Connect doesn't get as much access to the Sonos client frontend does as the Spotify integration on developer.sonos.com. Source: almost 2 years ago

Blame the Spotify integration on developer.sonos.com for this. Source: almost 2 years ago

With the MASTER thing, you've touched on another thing that is often misunderstood. That's a term used by Tidal to sell the top tier of their service. However, the MQA file is created from the Master provided by the record label. Neil Young confused this by thinking it was some sort of re-master, but it really isn't. (for the record, they are called TIDAL MASTERS, you only have to see this on their website to... Source: about 2 years ago

I'm using Tidal streaming for this (with HiFi plan) - they have masters in MQA for a lot of albums. Source: almost 3 years ago