it’s definitively fast on my installation. Might I suggest looking at the log level and making sure it’s not set to INFO or DEBUG? That’s what was holding my instance back.

They dropped MQA format support on Oct 20 in favor of FLAC https://support.tidal.com/hc/en-us/articles/25876825185425-Audio-Format-Updates

Me, an intellectual, who was already mounting the database data folder to the host filesystem.

Had to do exactly that last week when I hit Docker’s rather low network limit.