HQ Player

[Miska]

9 hours ago, sootshe said:

I don't see any album art when I'm using "full screen/touch mode" & on the "album view" screen.

The album art for each album is there when I select play view.

 

At the moment, the cover flow requires a detached cover image. So a file that contains either "cover" or "folder" in file name of jpg or png file and located in same folder where the tracks are. Most download purchases come with both detached and embedded cover art. Some few even have different embedded cover art for each track...

 

However, I could probably make HQPlayer extract embedded cover art to detached files automatically...

[flkin]

Hi @Miska

 

I'm finding that when using the Closed Form M filter at 44.1, the music starts around 18 seconds after Roon starts playing and as Roon finishes before the music, it gets truncated at the end.

 

Is there any reason to use non-apodising filters like the Closed Form M on 44.1 files without upsampling? Can it work?

 

The reason is that I quite like what I'm hearing with this setup except that the music is delayed by 18 seconds.

[giordy60]

8 hours ago, Miska said:

However, I could probably make HQPlayer extract embedded cover art to detached files automatically...

it would be great ?

[giordy60]

what should be the max image size ? 

[Miska]

1 hour ago, giordy60 said:

what should be the max image size ? 

 

There's no maximum, but it makes sense to keep it somewhat reasonable. If you just have the same as embedded one 1:1, it is fine.

 

If you have embedded cover art, that is the one that is shown in the play view. So in case you have high resolution display and fullscreen mode, you'd likely prefer quite high resolution image. If you don't have embedded cover art, the detached one is shown instead and in that case too you'd like to have high resolution image. If you have embedded covers, for detached ones for use with cover flow, you can use lower resolution to speed up things.

[Miska]

2 hours ago, flkin said:

I'm finding that when using the Closed Form M filter at 44.1, the music starts around 18 seconds after Roon starts playing and as Roon finishes before the music, it gets truncated at the end.

 

Is there any reason to use non-apodising filters like the Closed Form M on 44.1 files without upsampling? Can it work?

 

The reason is that I quite like what I'm hearing with this setup except that the music is delayed by 18 seconds.

 

Although you can, there's just not much point in doing low rates with such huge filters, because you get a lot of delay. If you use it at 705.6 kHz output rate, you also have 1/16th of the delay and it's not that bad anymore...

 

If you do 1:1 rate conversion with closed-form, you sort of have expensive (from resource consumption point of view) delay generator.

[sootshe]

14 hours ago, Miska said:

 

At the moment, the cover flow requires a detached cover image. So a file that contains either "cover" or "folder" in file name of jpg or png file and located in same folder where the tracks are. Most download purchases come with both detached and embedded cover art. Some few even have different embedded cover art for each track...

 

However, I could probably make HQPlayer extract embedded cover art to detached files automatically...

 I tried this - see attached & a number of other variations & still don't get cover art in cover flow.

The album art file is 26Kb.

What am I doing wrong?

[sootshe]

39 minutes ago, sootshe said:

 I tried this - see attached & a number of other variations & still don't get cover art in cover flow.

The album art file is 26Kb.

 

OK....so I've figured it out.......I forgot to scan the tree after adding the cover art files.....works a treat. Fantastic.

 

Luckily I only have just over 400 albums to do. 

[semente]

I am getting a strange message when I try to open the v3.25 DMG:

 

[jhwalker]

38 minutes ago, semente said:

I am getting a strange message when I try to open the v3.25 DMG:

 

 

I downloaded and installed it with no problems just now.  I'd try deleting your .dmg / download file and try the download again - probably a corrupt file.

[Account Closed]

Miska,

 

Could you please list those filters that are suitable for 1:1 at 44.1. As I mentioned before, my ML 390s only accepts 44.1 or 48 at the SPDIF input and then up-samples internally to 352/384. For a while I was taking everything up or down to 48 but I never thought that it sounded quite right. I only stream Tidal using Roon at 44.1 (gave up on MQA, another story) so I would like to keep it 44.1 ===> 44.1 but re-filter. I have tried all the MP filters and most sound much better at 44.1 ===> 44.1 than what I was getting using other filters and going up to 48. I am trying to not compete with the internal filter of the ML 390s. I know that this is a unique situation but I am making due until I can replace the ML 390s with a more modern DAC.

 

Thanks,

 

Bob

[lucretius]

On 9/30/2018 at 4:55 AM, Miska said:

At the moment, the cover flow requires a detached cover image.  ...

 

I have detached cover images for both .flac and .dsf files.  Only the images for .flac files show up in Touch mode. What am I doing wrong?

[sootshe]

1 hour ago, lucretius said:

 

I have detached cover images for both .flac and .dsf files.  Only the images for .flac files show up in Touch mode. What am I doing wrong?

Do you have the detached files in the same folder as the album tracks? named as "cover".....as JPG or png files?

 

If this is all OK, try deleting all the library & scan it again. 

[lucretius]

1 minute ago, sootshe said:

Do you have the detached files in the same folder as the album tracks? named as "cover".....as JPG or png files?

 

If this is all OK, try deleting all the library & scan it again. 

 

Yes, there in the same folder as the tracks. Named folder.jpg. I'll try re-scanning the library but I don't see how this would have an effect -- note that everything works fine for .flac files and many times I added the image after creating the library.

[Miska]

If the images are called "folder.jpg" then it's not from HQPlayer, but they are detected by HQPlayer as covers. If there's detected cover, then new ones are not extracted, only if there's no cover to be found. HQPlayer stores covers in cover.jpg or cover.png depending if the original is JPEG or PNG. If there is folder.jpg but it doesn't show up, then one could check if it appears in library.xml under "cover" attribute for those albums. If it is there, but still not showing, there's some problem either accessing the file or with the file format. If the image appears in cover flow, but not in playback view, then it means the file has embedded cover art but that is unreadable for some reason. But I'll check further the possible combinations in case there's some bug...

 

HQPlayer's search rule for covers is looking for files that have either "cover" or "folder" (and maybe "sleeve" too, but I don't recall right now) as part of the file name and the file name ends in .jpg, .jpeg or .png

[Miska]

4 hours ago, bobflood said:

Could you please list those filters that are suitable for 1:1 at 44.1. As I mentioned before, my ML 390s only accepts 44.1 or 48 at the SPDIF input and then up-samples internally to 352/384. For a while I was taking everything up or down to 48 but I never thought that it sounded quite right. I only stream Tidal using Roon at 44.1 (gave up on MQA, another story) so I would like to keep it 44.1 ===> 44.1 but re-filter. I have tried all the MP filters and most sound much better at 44.1 ===> 44.1 than what I was getting using other filters and going up to 48. I am trying to not compete with the internal filter of the ML 390s. I know that this is a unique situation but I am making due until I can replace the ML 390s with a more modern DAC.

 

It is most of the poly-sinc, but not much else. In the latest release I added column about possible conversion ratios to the manual, most if not all that are listed as "Any" can do 1:1.

 

[flkin]

@Miska Where is your latest manual kept?

[Ipoci]

Is the cover manage working for .dsf file as well?

I tried 3.25.0 on MacBookPro, there's a cover file named "Cover.jpg", if i drag&drop the whole album on HQP GUI track list panel, nothing appeared on the picture windows top left, even playing the file.

Have a nice day. Massimiliano

[Miska]

59 minutes ago, Ipoci said:

Is the cover manage working for .dsf file as well?

I tried 3.25.0 on MacBookPro, there's a cover file named "Cover.jpg", if i drag&drop the whole album on HQP GUI track list panel, nothing appeared on the picture windows top left, even playing the file.

Have a nice day. Massimiliano

 

Detached covers are only used for HQPlayer's library. Only embedded covers show for playlists... If you load an album from HQPlayer's library that doesn't have embedded covers, but has detached cover, it is shown.

 

Especially for DSF/DSDIFF files using album playback vs playlist mode makes a difference in playback itself too. In a album mode tracks are assumed to belong together and you get fully gapless playback. When you play DSD files in playlist mode, tracks are assumed to be standalone or not in original order and then track transition click-prevention processing is applied at the transition point. This creates a tiny gap.

 

 

[Miska]

1 hour ago, flkin said:

@Miska Where is your latest manual kept?

 

It always comes with the software. On Windows and Linux you can find it from Start-menu. And on Mac it is part of the DMG and you can place it where you like.

 

[Le Concombre Masqué]

1 hour ago, Miska said:

 

It is most of the poly-sinc, but not much else. In the latest release I added column about possible conversion ratios to the manual, most if not all that are listed as "Any" can do 1:1.

 

I read "Any" for ext2 : thank you ! 

[copy_of_a]

12 hours ago, semente said:

I am getting a strange message when I try to open the v3.25 DMG:

 

 

@Miska   - same here:  the *.dmg seems to be faulty ...

[Account Closed]

6 hours ago, Miska said:

 

It is most of the poly-sinc, but not much else. In the latest release I added column about possible conversion ratios to the manual, most if not all that are listed as "Any" can do 1:1.

 

 

Very helpful.  Thanks

[Miska]

3 hours ago, copy_of_a said:

 

@Miska   - same here:  the *.dmg seems to be faulty ...

 

It should have following SHA-256 checksum:

074afd41cbad50756327e19b05276c1052c4b45f4fa477a0475bc4fa2ad24ae0

On macOS you can compute this with command "shasum -a 256 <filename>" in this case for example:

shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/HQPlayerDesktop3-mac-3250.dmg

 

 

I have checked that checksums match on my local storage and both servers.

 

If you have problem with the main server, you can use the backup server at:

https://www.signalyst.eu

It is slow, so please use the main server whenever possible.

 

[semente]

14 minutes ago, Miska said:

 

It should have following SHA-256 checksum:

074afd41cbad50756327e19b05276c1052c4b45f4fa477a0475bc4fa2ad24ae0

On macOS you can compute this with command "shasum -a 256 <filename>" in this case for example:

shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/HQPlayerDesktop3-mac-3250.dmg

 

 

I have checked that checksums match on my local storage and both servers.

 

If you have problem with the main server, you can use the backup server at:

https://www.signalyst.eu

It is slow, so please use the main server whenever possible.

 

The checksum matches but mounting fails.

The ".eu" image doesn't work either...

I'm on Mac OS 10.11.6 by the way.