Hi Phil,
I’ve tried with different compatible files format (FLAC but also WAV and even MP3 just to see).
I mainly use physical CDs with my Rossini but since a friend of mine sometimes sends me music files, I’d like to try to listen to them on the fly through my high quality audio system.
OK so the first thing I’d suggest is if you have any way of sending me a link to one of the files - say via OneDrive or DropBox or WeTransfer then can you do so to [email protected] and I’ll pop the file onto a USB stick here and just check … it could be that the file has an unrecognised extension or something.
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Hi Phil,
I just sent you a Wetransfer with two of the files (FLAC) I tried to use.
I believe I heard that Audirvana and Amarra have a bypass of the apple mixer so that doesn’t affect sound quality.
And by stripped dow, I don’t want the bloatware that will look for all music files, offer radio type functions, etc.
I think that you have a fairly undefined mental concept of what you want.
Commercially available media players all offer many features. Otherwise they have no commercial viability. However many features are just options and are ( broadly) selectable by the user in the setup menus. They will not appear in the user GUI if not selected. Further the day to day interface you use will likely not be the computer screen but the related app on your phone or tablet which will only show what you have selected. However you will still need to understand how to set up and use the player and this requires learning.
You are going to need things like search and navigation features unless your music library consists of only a single album which you always want to hear all the tracks of.
You are now contradicting yourself by on the one hand sating that you don’t want what you consider “bloartware” but on the other by saying that the issue over the the Mac mixer can be solved by Audirvana or Amarra which, of course, have all of those additional features that you say that you don’t want.
The reality is that whatever you are thinking about probably does not exist in practice. Your choice in reality is one of the media player applications such as the two mentioned above. Of course if you know a software designer he/she might be able to write a custom program but you will need to define the specifications, Probably not a realistic idea.
Hi @KatJoe
I haven’t received any WeTransfer links yet through to support@ … could you resend to me at [email protected]?
Thanks
Phil
Hi Phil,
I just sent you the files through Wetransfer (and received the notification that they were sent correctly).
If you don’t see anything, check your spam folder too.
Thanks so much.
Hi @KatJoe
Yup - that one I got and have downloaded them … I’ll get them onto a USB stick and check whether they are “seen” there later today.
On topic - I agree with other posts - a NAS / UpNP solution far better than the USB stick
re computing devices and software playback - few comments…
It is a trivial task for any good spec, properly configured modern computer using the correct software to deliver bit perfect data to a DAC. Once the stream gets going, Roon (with no DSP) takes less resources than Activity Monitor! Older machines may run into issues if you are multi tasking - esp with solutions that require audio - this will mess you up! But from a purely objective standpoint, audio stream data transfer failure is rare even with USB - and you will know as you will hear drop outs!
Roon will also deliver bit perfect data via exclusive mode (provided all the DSP stuff is turned off). I ran Roon on a Mac Mini via USB when I had an RME dac and confirmed through their test files that data was being delivered bit-perfectly. Audirvana does as well.
I don’t have experience with other 3rd party players. The Apple Music players on iOS and MacOS are a different story.