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5 minutes ago, Conte_Oliver said:

Yes I did all the test with Ethernet linked. I succesfully installed a naa on a slightly recent pc running W10 64 bit but with this older one pc and w7 32bit no way.

Where is HQPlayer (server) installed? Does it see the NAA?

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Hi HQP is installed in a Windows 10 partition of a MacMini .

if you connect the macmini to a naa installed in a Win10 64 pc is all ok (this pc is not mine)

the macmini doesn't see the pc with Win7 32 (and I got that error)

maybe do I need an older daemon?

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I am having issues with Auto rate when upsampling 96kHz 24bit to DSD512. V3.17

If I leave it on Auto and hit play in Roon it appears the music is playing, but nothing is going on.

If I press Pause and manually choose 44.1k x512 or 44.1k x256 (the only options available in Auto menu) and hit play it is fine, but if left on Auto, nothing.

The log file says No suitable output rate found, stop.

Any ideas why there is no suitable rate when I choose Auto, but it is ok when I manually select it?

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Posted September 9, 2017

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Posted September 9, 2017

After a fresh install of Windows 10 and HQ Player, I am not able to connect to NAA machine in HQ Player Settings. No change to NAA machine. Any ideas please let me know. Thanks.

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Hi all,

I’m using HQPlayer (with ROON UI) to convert and upsample sources from 16b/44.1 Khz to DSD 128 or DSD 512.

I want to apply convolution filters for Digital Room Correction purpose.

What is best compromise regarding filters files format (bitdepth, sample rate) , my concerns are about sound quality and computer ressources optimization ?

Thank you.

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2 hours ago, volpone said:

I’m using HQPlayer (with ROON UI) to convert and upsample sources from 16b/44.1 Khz to DSD 128 or DSD 512.

I want to apply convolution filters for Digital Room Correction purpose.

What is best compromise regarding filters files format (bitdepth, sample rate) , my concerns are about sound quality and computer ressources optimization ?

Convolution filter file bitdepth and sample rate generally don't have notable effect on computer resource usage, apart from the initialization time before playback begins.

If you use Acourate, then I'd recommend to generate filters for 384k sampling rate, 64-bit mono WAV. Remember to check the "Brick" box too, then you can keep the "Expand HF" off in HQPlayer - then it needs to do less massaging on the filters...

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HQ Player Stuttering while loading long playlists in Muso.

I am using Muso as to control for HQ Player.

However, I notice that when I play long playlists, or CD box sets that contain many albums, I get a considerable amount of stuttering in HQ player until the playlist fully loads into HQ player.

Is there any thing I can do about this?

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3 hours ago, Miska said:

Convolution filter file bitdepth and sample rate generally don't have notable effect on computer resource usage, apart from the initialization time before playback begins.

If you use Acourate, then I'd recommend to generate filters for 384k sampling rate, 64-bit mono WAV. Remember to check the "Brick" box too, then you can keep the "Expand HF" off in HQPlayer - then it needs to do less massaging on the filters...

Thank you @Miska.

If my sources files are only 16/44 and output only DSD 512 do you still recommend "to generate filters for 384k sampling rate, 64-bit mono wav" ?

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9 minutes ago, volpone said:

If my sources files are only 16/44 and output only DSD 512 do you still recommend "to generate filters for 384k sampling rate, 64-bit mono wav" ?

If you have source files only in that format and nothing else, then you can create filters for 44.1k sampling rate instead.

Normally you would generate filters for highest source file sampling rate you would imagine using.

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Is there anyway to use Tidal through HQPayer other then Roon ? On a windows PC ?

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5 hours ago, Outlaw said:

Is there anyway to use Tidal through HQPayer other then Roon ? On a windows PC ?

Not with HQPlayer Desktop that I'm aware of...

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I have HQ 3.17.

I just noticed that when I select Direct SDM, 24/192 Files are still converted to 2x DSD.

I thought it was only for playing DSD Files without upsampling.

Usually I just leave Direct SDM off, even when playing 2x DSD Files.

I have a Mac D150/IMac.

Am I doing it wrong??!!

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DirectSDM does no processing on DSD files. However it sounds like you have Upsampling set to DSD128 so PCM files get upsampled as per your setting

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Thanks! So I could have it set all the time, listen to unprocessed DSD and Upsampled PCM?

That would be great as I've only experimented briefly with Direct SDM.

That seems to what's already happening, as you mentioned.

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Posted September 16, 2017

13 minutes ago, jimdukey said:

Thanks! So I could have it set all the time, listen to unprocessed DSD and Upsampled PCM?

That would be great as I've only experimented briefly with Direct SDM.

That seems to what's already happening, as you mentioned.

Not sure if you do convolution, but if you have Direct SDM selected then the filters will not be applied either. I would prefer Direct SDM as well but I need convolution. Perhaps @Miska can have an option to enable convolution even when Direct SDM is selected.

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Posted September 16, 2017

have found a new setting, try closed form / dsd5V2 256 / 256dsd i even prefer it to Polysync . dsd5v2 256/ 512DSD

drawback it use 50% of the I7 6700K core ...

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Posted September 17, 2017

On 9/15/2017 at 8:22 PM, tboooe said:

Not sure if you do convolution, but if you have Direct SDM selected then the filters will not be applied either. I would prefer Direct SDM as well but I need convolution. Perhaps @Miska can have an option to enable convolution even when Direct SDM is selected.

Direct SDM is for plain bit-perfect DSD pass-through. So it cannot involve any processing like convolution or such...

What happens in other cases depends on your configuration. When doing convolution for DSD, I also recommend to do at least 2x upsampling for the DSD content if possible. This gives you some extra output precision.

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I used 3.16.0 with my Win10 NAA last 1/2 year. I did Creators Update on my Win10 HQPlayer computer (no change on the NAA computer). Because of startup crash I needed to update HQPlayer to 3.17. Now I cannot access my Win10 NAA anymore - I tried both NetworkAudioAdapter and NetworkAudioAdapter IPv6.

Miska, did anything change in the way how NAA is discovered between 3.16 and 3.17 ? Is there anyone using Win10 HQPlayer computer with Win10 NAA after Creators update on HQPlayer computer? Do I need to update NAA? My NAA version is 3.4.2.0.

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Posted September 22, 2017

All works as previously, forget the previous post.

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Posted September 22, 2017

I use HQP 3.17 and I have a problem which had already been discussed back in 2015 in this forum.
But I have not found a solution here.

HQP is working on a Win7 computer. If there many files loaded in HQP and if

I call 'hqp-control.exe localhost --playlist-get' I get the 'premature end of document' error.
It depends on how long the foldernames and the filenames are in total. The error occurs approximately
after 36-45 files.

Is there already a solution to this problem in a Win7 environment?

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10 hours ago, r_g said:

If there many files loaded in HQP and if

I call 'hqp-control.exe localhost --playlist-get' I get the 'premature end of document' error.

I sometimes get that error too, even with a play queue having only 8 tracks. I can repeat the command and then it works, so it's not predictable.

I'm running hqp-control in MacOS 10.12 (Sierra), and HQP Desktop in MacOS 10.11 (Capitan).

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12 hours ago, Bob Stern said:

I sometimes get that error too, even with a play queue having only 8 tracks. I can repeat the command and then it works, so it's not predictable.

I'm running hqp-control in MacOS 10.12 (Sierra), and HQP Desktop in MacOS 10.11 (Capitan).

In my Win7 environment it's definitely predictable.
And when I repeat the command the error occurs everytime and will not dissapear.

So it seems to be different in my Win7 version and your MacOS version.

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Hey guys, what does the purchase of a license get you in terms of updates? I'm probably just not seeing it...so a link is totally cool...but if I buy it now...which is on version 3.17...how many more updates does my $ get me?

How many more 3.x versions are expected?

Thanks

Jim

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