HQ Player

[Nikhil]

4 minutes ago, jatrader said:

 I installed the drivers months ago when I bought the DAC. The list does not have Schiit USB it has ASIO USB

My system worked fine up untill a couple of hqplayer upgrades ago.

 

Which version are you running?  Can you go back to your previous version?

[jatrader]

18 minutes ago, Nikhil said:

 

Which version are you running?  Can you go back to your previous version?

ver. 3.16.4

[jatrader]

Just now, jatrader said:

ver. 3.16.4

I don't think previous versions work with win10

[Miska]

Some ASIO drivers seem to be having problems on Win10 Creators Update. For example with T+A DAC8 DSD (Amanero driver), I needed to first switch to WASAPI backend, play something, and then switch back to ASIO backend to make the driver work...

 

[paulpaul]

I am planning to buy the Holo Audio Spring DAC. Currently I am using NAA on Windows 2012 Server 2012 R2. Is there any driver required for Windows Server 2012 R2 to stream music to Spring?

[ted_b]

Yes.  Install the Holo Spring ASIO driver. 

https://kitsunehifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/HoloAudio_DriverSetup_v3.40.0_Win7_Win8.zip

[paulpaul]

Thanks, ted_b

[Nikhil]

18 hours ago, jatrader said:

I don't think previous versions work with win10

 

I'm running 3.16.1 on Win 10 [Build 10240]

[Krutsch]

Quick question: I am finished with Roon. I *love* the sound I get with HQPlayer.

 

Is there another UI/Library alternative to use with HQ Player, other than Roon?

 

Thanks, in advance.

[jatrader]

23 minutes ago, Krutsch said:

Quick question: I am finished with Roon. I *love* the sound I get with HQPlayer.

 

Is there another UI/Library alternative to use with HQ Player, other than Roon?

 

Thanks, in advance.

I'v been having nothing but trouble with playing files either from my directory or from the library in hqplayer. I think it is a windows10 issue. I think win10 and hqplayer aren't communicating too well. Considering installing Linux and dual booting. Or going back to windows 7 on a dual boot as well. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

 

[ted_b]

I've been running Win 10 pro and having zero issues (not updated to Creators)

 

Try JRiver as a front end (jremote is wonderful app and to tie to HQP is not a big deal.  Geoff's set of files also allows for custom HQP settings based on anything, like genre)

https://www.computeraudiophile.com/forums/topic/25228-j-river-to-hqplayer-a-very-limited-solution/?do=findComment&comment=651354

 

Or for Windows there's Muso too.

 

[jatrader]

55 minutes ago, ted_b said:

I've been running Win 10 pro and having zero issues (not updated to Creators)

 

Try JRiver as a front end (jremote is wonderful app and to tie to HQP is not a big deal.  Geoff's set of files also allows for custom HQP settings based on anything, like genre)

https://www.computeraudiophile.com/forums/topic/25228-j-river-to-hqplayer-a-very-limited-solution/?do=findComment&comment=651354

 

Or for Windows there's Muso too.

 

I'm sure you know that win 10 will not allow you to defer updates for long. My alternatives at this time is to install linux ubuntu, or use a hard disk that has win 7 on it. Win 7 is easy for me and I wouldn't have to buy another license for hqplayer. Can someone tell me if sound quality on win 7 is comparable to ubuntu?

 

[blue2]

14 hours ago, Krutsch said:

Quick question: I am finished with Roon. I *love* the sound I get with HQPlayer.

 

Is there another UI/Library alternative to use with HQ Player, other than Roon?

 

Thanks, in advance.

Alchemy

Klarita Muso

You can find info on CA about both.

[tboooe]

5 hours ago, blue2 said:

Alchemy

Klarita Muso

You can find info on CA about both.

I've been trying to find an alternative as well but sadly for me, there just isnt an interface available that is as user friendly and slick as Roon.  Plus I need to have an app so I can run it on my tablet.  Sadly, it seems I will continue to pay over $100 per year for Roon....my wallet aches.

[ted_b]

2 minutes ago, tboooe said:

I've been trying to find an alternative as well but sadly for me, there just isnt an interface available that is as user friendly and slick as Roon.  Plus I need to have an app so I can run it on my tablet.  Sadly, it seems I will continue to pay over $100 per year for Roon....my wallet aches.

Seriously, Geoffrey's JRiver solution is slick, and it allows JRemote to be your tablet remote.  There is no better tablet remote than JRemote IMHO.

[tboooe]

13 minutes ago, ted_b said:

Seriously, Geoffrey's JRiver solution is slick, and it allows JRemote to be your tablet remote.  There is no better tablet remote than JRemote IMHO.

thank you ted!  Can you pls point me to this Geoffrey solution?  I like Jriver remote alot too.

[ted_b]

Go up about 4 posts. 

[bibo01]

21 minutes ago, tboooe said:

I've been trying to find an alternative as well but sadly for me, there just isnt an interface available that is as user friendly and slick as Roon.  Plus I need to have an app so I can run it on my tablet.  Sadly, it seems I will continue to pay over $100 per year for Roon....my wallet aches.

There is a possibility that in the next few months a friend of mine will develop a plug-in for LMS to talk to HQPlayer

Very light server, good remote client interface, all streaming services available,... 

[scintilla]

I would definitely like to have that option.  Pandora streams clip with my Inguz installation in LMS and if LMS can pass Pandora to HQPlayer, I would be very happy. I can use stream-through in Pure Music to hijack the Pandora desktop player stream, but I have had problems with that too. It really is a shame that Pandora won't just open their API to Roon, but that's a complaint for another day.  

[shadowlight]

On 6/20/2017 at 2:18 PM, Krutsch said:

Quick question: I am finished with Roon. I *love* the sound I get with HQPlayer.

 

Is there another UI/Library alternative to use with HQ Player, other than Roon?

 

Thanks, in advance.

 

You can use JRiver as ted_b mentioned or you can use hqplayer embedded with Jriver which is what I use with Jr emote on ios and eos remote on android

 

 

[Krutsch]

14 hours ago, shadowlight said:

 

You can use JRiver as ted_b mentioned or you can use hqplayer embedded with Jriver which is what I use with Jr emote on ios and eos remote on android

 

 

 

Appreciate the reply. I am a Mac user, unfortunately, so I don't know if your answer still applies. I know there is a Mac version of JRMC, but my early experiences with that were not positive.

[Confused]

I am part way through my 30 day HQPlayer 'free trial' and enjoying what I'm hearing so far.  Currently I am using a Windows 10 PC, microRendu, Mutec MC3+USB to Devialet set up.

 

Recently I have been thinking about upgrading the 'front end' of my system and have been pondering what might be the best sounding solution, keeping with an 'end point' set up.  So what is the highest possiblle quality NAA compatible end point?  One obvious option is the SMS-200Ultra. (Maybe with Mutec REF10 and my existing MC3)  Is there anything superior?  

[firedog]

22 minutes ago, Confused said:

I am part way through my 30 day HQPlayer 'free trial' and enjoying what I'm hearing so far.  Currently I am using a Windows 10 PC, microRendu, Mutec MC3+USB to Devialet set up.

 

Recently I have been thinking about upgrading the 'front end' of my system and have been pondering what might be the best sounding solution, keeping with an 'end point' set up.  So what is the highest possiblle quality NAA compatible end point?  One obvious option is the SMS-200Ultra. (Maybe with Mutec REF10 and my existing MC3)  Is there anything superior?  

There is the ultraRendu about to come out. If you have a big budget, there is the dCS network bridge.

[Confused]

16 minutes ago, firedog said:

There is the ultraRendu about to come out. If you have a big budget, there is the dCS network bridge.

I was very interested in the Network bridge as the Devialet seams to work much better via Its AES/EBU input.  The problem is that although it is 'Roon Ready', it is not NAA compatible.....

 

It will be interesting to see how the ultraRendu performs, time will tell, although the sMS-200 edges ahead on spec currently as it has the option for clock input.

[pkane2001]

In case someone might find it useful:

 

I had an issue with occasional dropouts in HQP playback from my I7 4790k/780ti computer. I've tested everything, from USB cables to disabling all running software. Even used gigabit ethernet to an NAA machine. Nothing seemed to help. Disk speed was not a problem (same issue from RAM disk). CPU utilization was around 20-22%, not enough to overload any of the cores. GPU enabled or disabled, same issue.

 

Just solved the issue by running LatencyMon freeware from resplendence.com that monitors Windows for any issues that might affect real time audio or video playback.

 

Turns out HQPlayer.exe was experiencing a large number of hard page faults while running. Easy solution: I disabled paging file altogether, since I have 16GB of RAM. No page faults now, and no more drop-outs!  Simply awesome!

 

While using LatencyMon, I also discovered a large number of interrupts from DirectX, USB, and Nvidia drivers. Nvidia I understand, this is related to using CUDA in HQP.

 

DirectX drivers is strange, I have not found a way to reduce interrupt latency there. USB is also strange, since I don't have anything but the keyboard and a mouse plugged into this PC on USB. HQP is connected to NAA over ethernet. In any case, these are not significant, as there are no more dropouts in the HQP playback!