The Dark Side; Digital audio equipment recommendations and setup.

Anyone here use Plexamp and Qobuz? I'm wondering if there is a way to highlight albums in my NAS in MP3 format and move to Qobuz for CD quality playback.

I can see that stuff like Lidarr exists, which will scrape your library and look for upgrades, but I don't know if there is any benefit in that if you're not on usenet, and I don't know if I can be bothered putting on my eyepatch again (note that a good chunk of my MP3's are eMusic purchases). I wonder if my alternative is reviewing my library and hitting Discogs for CD copies of the albums I want better quality files of.
 
Not really answering your question but for Plex you can have multiple folders linked to each category. I keep a MP3 folder for older copies and FLAC file for new ones I add. That makes it easier for me to track what I need to upgrade also.
When I hit the music tab in Plex it looks no different than if they were all in the same folder. You could then link Qobuz to the FLAC folder.

Edit: not sure how the Plexamp server works verse classic Plex. Assuming similar.
 
LiamGallaghersBucketHat said:
Which streamers have Apple Music and Bandcamp incorporated into their system?
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Not many sadly. The streamer needs to be running a full version of Android and have the Google Play store loaded. You can then download any app and it will play content from it directly. I know the FiiO R7/R9 does. I think WiiM has been teasing a full android version coming soon. Not sure who else has it.

You could use an iPad with a dongle dac or a dac that uses usb-c input and then out from there.
 
LiamGallaghersBucketHat said:
It would really be nice if Blu would add those two to their OS. I guess whenever I upgrade my daughter’s iPad, I can use her old one and just buy whatever I need to run that directly into the Node.
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The problem with Apple Music is an Apple thing and unless you run a streamer with an touchscreen and android so you can download the Apple Music app like on a phone I don’t think you’ll ever be able to go beyond airplay sadly.
 
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LiamGallaghersBucketHat said:
Which streamers have Apple Music and Bandcamp incorporated into their system?
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Fiio R7 & R9, and Eversolo DMP-A6 and DMP-A8 are all that I know of right now. I have a DMP-A6 in one of my setups and it’s a solid device with a really good app.

The upcoming uber Eversolo DMP-10 will probably have the ability to do so as well, and the new Shanling SM1.3 may get those abilities, but that’s speculative. I don’t know if a Pi streamer can, I have no experience there, but others here do and can maybe answer.
 
SnowmaNick said:
Fiio R7 & R9, and Eversolo DMP-A6 and DMP-A8 are all that I know of right now. I have a DMP-A6 in one of my setups and it’s a solid device with a really good app.

The upcoming uber Eversolo DMP-10 will probably have the ability to do so as well, and the new Shanling SM1.3 may get those abilities, but that’s speculative. I don’t know if a Pi streamer can, I have no experience there, but others here do and can maybe answer.
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The super expensive shanling cd player can, it’s another android based one that you can download the app from the App Store on it. I don’t know of any pi builds that allow you to run android as an os, but I’ve been out of that community for a couple of years now.
 
Nee Lewman said:
Hey @Mather you know what sounded AMAZING through Dirac? That new Gillian Welch.
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speaking of Dirac...are there any amps that have a small footprint and have Dirac capability? we're rebuilding a screened-in porch and its probably overkill, but was looking into a small amp to put in there to pair with some speakers i already have. i'll probably just end up getting some ikea sonos speakers to use with Roon...but if there's something under $1k that has dirac that I can hook speakers up to and has a nice DAC, I could be convinced to go that route!
 
MikeH said:
speaking of Dirac...are there any amps that have a small footprint and have Dirac capability? we're rebuilding a screened-in porch and its probably overkill, but was looking into a small amp to put in there to pair with some speakers i already have. i'll probably just end up getting some ikea sonos speakers to use with Roon...but if there's something under $1k that has dirac that I can hook speakers up to and has a nice DAC, I could be convinced to go that route!
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The Winamp has room correction but not DIRAC.
 
MikeH said:
speaking of Dirac...are there any amps that have a small footprint and have Dirac capability? we're rebuilding a screened-in porch and its probably overkill, but was looking into a small amp to put in there to pair with some speakers i already have. i'll probably just end up getting some ikea sonos speakers to use with Roon...but if there's something under $1k that has dirac that I can hook speakers up to and has a nice DAC, I could be convinced to go that route!
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Here's the current list of models that carry it. The NAD C379 might be the cheapest one? Maybe?
 
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