Comments on Profile Post by Merrick

  1. Woland
    Woland
    Ugly as sin: the beauty is all on the inside.
    Aug 18, 2021
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  2. HotRatSalad
    HotRatSalad
    Yep a lot of software and apps are horrible these days imo. Even if they sound good, it kills the enthusiasm.
    Aug 18, 2021
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  3. SoupRKnowva
    SoupRKnowva
    lol at least it isn’t as bad as XXHighend. I think this is why most people control it with Roon
    Aug 18, 2021
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  4. Merrick
    Merrick
    It’s not just ugly. I spent half my night trying to get it to play anything and never got a single sound out of my DAC. Tried all sorts of settings and configurations. Total waste of my time.
    Aug 18, 2021
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  5. GoodEnoughGear
    GoodEnoughGear
    Hmmm, sounds like something got borked. You run the desktop app which acts as a server, inspect a library folder and then run the client which connects to localhost and you get a basic player. Tweak filters and shapers. How far did you get?
    Aug 18, 2021
  6. Merrick
    Merrick
    @GoodEnoughGear App launched, settings set, folder scanned and processed for library. Client on local host shows scanned music. When I try to play the client either doesn’t respond at all, or loads the track then stops before playback begins.
    Aug 18, 2021
  7. GoodEnoughGear
    GoodEnoughGear
    Sounds like you're doing the right things.
    Aug 18, 2021
  8. Woland
    Woland
    Aug 18, 2021
  9. YMO
    YMO
    What's the point of HQPlayer again?
    Aug 18, 2021
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  10. Azteca
    Azteca
    The more convoluted it is, the more the audiophiles know it's really working. "It grinds my computer to a standstill! It's clearly doing big things!" I know a lot of reasonable people like it too, just sayin.
    Aug 18, 2021
  11. Merrick
    Merrick
    @Woland I copied those settings exactly, still can’t select a song in the client. It shows me the album cover art and track listing, but clicking play does nothing and clicking on a track does nothing.
    Aug 18, 2021
  12. archer88
    archer88
    I am using the trial version and I can get it to play only certain formats properly, mainly FLAC. But whenever it worked, the controls were extremely laggy. The pause play functions take 5 seconds to kick in and the seek bar is a joke.
    Aug 18, 2021
  13. Merrick
    Merrick
    I’m assuming the Roon integration feels a lot smoother, otherwise I don’t see how people could be dropping hundreds of dollars on this broke software.
    Aug 18, 2021
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  14. GoodEnoughGear
    GoodEnoughGear
    What file type are you playing? I don't see much lag, but I do have a pretty fast system
    Aug 18, 2021
  15. Merrick
    Merrick
    Everything I have is FLAC, only doing upsampling, no file type conversions.
    Aug 18, 2021
  16. Woland
    Woland
    I thought I had the issue replicated by running HQPlayer Desktop from the image instead of copied to the harddrive... but then the music started. the only other thing I tend to do differently is drag and drop files individually rather then use the folder scan.
    Aug 18, 2021
  17. Woland
    Woland
    One reason I moved to the pi implementation is because once set up to work with Roon, you don't need to interact with the HQPlayer interface anymore, which is a relief. Also, the pi setup lets you stream over networks with UPNP and over USB like a Super-Eitr.
    Aug 18, 2021
  18. Azteca
    Azteca
    The problem is obviously that you aren't using JPlay!
    Aug 18, 2021
  19. Azteca
    Azteca
    Aug 18, 2021
  20. SoupRKnowva
    SoupRKnowva
    haha @Azteca Ive thought about the idea of using like 100-300 watts of computer power, continuously, just to oversample your music in real time a lot over the past couple weeks, as I read a bit more about hqplayer and the holo may
    Aug 18, 2021