HQPlayer Linux Desktop and HQplayer embedded

[Miska]

4 hours ago, Sunny_Player said:

Good morning @Miska and all. Just a quick one: I am playing a 24/192 source and the apodizing counter is above 12000. What is the reason for this behaviour? Thank you. 

 

It is being detected as possibly upsampled content. You could check HQPlayer Client metering to confirm whether this is the case or not.

 

[Miska]

On 3/7/2024 at 9:39 AM, R1200CL said:

Still purchasing HQplayer licenses, you have to do yourself. (Before you cold purchase from SMG).

 

From my point of view, you could still purchase it the same way from Andrew. Not sure if he decides to continue that service.

 

On 3/7/2024 at 9:39 AM, R1200CL said:

And add the license yourself into the preinstalled HQplayer of cause.
And in order to get the discounted upgrade you need a file, not only the fingerprint. I haven’t tried, but maybe it’s as easy as pasting the fingerprint into a text file, and load it up.
I’m hoping @Miska can tell me that either SMG ought to assist me one way or another, (remote assistance), or he can give me a recipe how to extract the required information to be added to his web shop. 
Maybe he can upgrade version 4.35 to pull out the required file. I assume others will at some time have same issues as me. 

 

You should be able to get your license key file from Andrew, he should know what your device has. Or possibly he could remotely access it (I don't know).

 

If the license key is still valid and you have still v4 installed, it's serial number is shown on /about page. Based on that, Aapo can possibly find the license key from our database. If your device has serial number printed somewhere, it could be the same case.

 

 

P.S. Sorry for the delay, I'm traveling at the moment and trying to catch up. Writing this at the moment from Lisbon, Portugal...

 

[R1200CL]

3 hours ago, Miska said:

Based on that, Aapo can possibly find the license key from our database.

Is Aapo same as user dabassgoesboomboom in Roon ?

Is he available here?

Should i send him a message through Roon ?

 

The fingerprint is no problem to obtain. 

[stefano_mbp]

27 minutes ago, R1200CL said:

Aapo same as user dabassgoesboomboom in Roon ?

I don’t think so, just send a mail to info at Signalyst dot com

[agillis]

6 hours ago, Miska said:

You should be able to get your license key file from Andrew

You can buy a license from me but you would need to email me the key from your unit and I would need to email it to @Miska and then email the key back. It would  be much faster to just order the key directly from  @Miska

 

I have some nice instructions on how to install HQplayer on a sonicTransporter and also how to get the key you need.

 

http://sonicorbiter.com/docs/hqplayer_setup

[R1200CL]

54 minutes ago, agillis said:

I have some nice instructions on how to install HQplayer on a sonicTransporter and also how to get the key you need.

 

http://sonicorbiter.com/docs/hqplayer_setup

 

Those instructions won’t work. They don’t explain how to upgrade. You even get an error message. See picture. 
 

As explained before, the fingerprint isn’t enough in order to purchase an upgrade.

You need a license file. Or license key. (Same thing). 
https://www.signalyst.fi/hqplayer4upg.html
 

How to a make a license file based on fingerprint? Not possible. 

 

It seems a guy named Aapo, not @Miska is the key to solve this.

How can I get in contact with Aapo?

Well I try the suggested email, and report back. 

 

[R1200CL]

1 hour ago, agillis said:

You can buy a license from me

Your price used to be at least 30% lower that Signalyst webshop. But not many knew. 

[agillis]

13 minutes ago, R1200CL said:

They don’t explain how to upgrade. You even get an error message.

 

What did you click on to get that message. All the links on that page are working.

 

Upgrades are handled through Signalyst.

[agillis]

12 minutes ago, R1200CL said:

Your price used to be at least 30% lower that Signalyst webshop. But not many knew. 

 

We never sold the license directly only with new hardware and it was only slightly lower then Signalyst not 30%.

[R1200CL]

25 minutes ago, agillis said:

 

We never sold the license directly only with new hardware and it was only slightly lower then Signalyst not 30%.

Thanks, then I know why I haven’t the original license key available 😀

 

27 minutes ago, agillis said:

What did you click on to get that message. All the links on that page are working.

http://www.sonicorbiter.com/404.html
 

 

 

Also the link to HQplayer shop takes you to version 4. Not version 5. 
https://order.shareit.com/product?vendorid=200082742&productid=300779869&languageid=1&nolselection=1

 

And for some reason you need also to submit fingerprint in addition. Don’t know why. 
 

[agillis]

At that point you are already on sonicorbiter.com so you can probably figure out how to get to sonicoribter.com!! But I'll check and see why that goes to a 404

 

-Andrew

[Miska]

17 hours ago, R1200CL said:

Is Aapo same as user dabassgoesboomboom in Roon ?

 

No, Aapo is my only employee handling license key updates and such.

 

DBGBB on Roon forum is one of HQPlayer customers.

 

17 hours ago, R1200CL said:

Is he available here?

 

No, so far Aapo is not on any of these forums.

 

17 hours ago, R1200CL said:

Should i send him a message through Roon ?

 

Best is to use our info or support email, both end up on both my and Aapo's email inbox.

 

I believe we got your email, I will respond to it shortly.

[R1200CL]

1 hour ago, Miska said:

I believe we got your email, I will respond to it shortly.

Thanks for sending me license key. Great support. Problem solved. Now just waiting for @agillis to finalizing the sonicTransporter upgrade. Assuming quite busy as high demand for upgrade 😀

 

[Miska]

On 3/4/2024 at 1:56 AM, cpcat said:

Does the nblocks setting interact with the ecores setting?  I haven’t experimented with the nblocks setting - but ecores=pool works best for me.  Maybe with nblocks at a higher setting ecores=filter works better?  

 

Yes, nblocks affects all cases. However, the largest L3 cache is shared between all core types. While smaller L2 cache is CPU group specific and even smaller L1 is CPU core specific.

 

[Carousel]

@Miska Is the latest embedded readme.txt available on your website at all? I'd like to understand the ecores and nblocks options. When I load embedded to my Ubuntu server, I do not see a readme text anywhere. It would be great if there were a link on this page: Signalyst - Installing HQPlayer Embedded

 

[stefano_mbp]

46 minutes ago, Carousel said:

@Miska Is the latest embedded readme.txt available on your website at all? I'd like to understand the ecores and nblocks options. When I load embedded to my Ubuntu server, I do not see a readme text anywhere. It would be great if there were a link on this page: Signalyst - Installing HQPlayer Embedded

 

You can find it here

/usr/share/doc/hqplayerd/readme.txt.gz

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3 hours ago, stefano_mbp said:

You can find it here

/usr/share/doc/hqplayerd/readme.txt.gz

Sorry, but find it where? It's not linkable... 

Should I mount an image, or write image to usb stick first? Cannot find it doing both..) since for me are not mountable in last builds 

 

[stefano_mbp]

2 minutes ago, skipspence said:

Sorry, but find it where? It's not linkable... 

Should I mount an image, or write image to usb stick first? Cannot find it doing both..) 

 

I supposed you already installed HQPe on Ubuntu, that’s the path for the readme.txt after installation

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Just now, stefano_mbp said:

I supposed you already installed HQPe on Ubuntu, that’s the path for the readme.txt after installation

So no path to readme.txt in HQPe OS? 

[stefano_mbp]

2 minutes ago, skipspence said:

So no path to readme.txt in HQPe OS? 

For HQP OS the path is different (usb boot)

/usr/share/hqplayer/readme.txt

[skipspence]

6 minutes ago, stefano_mbp said:

For HQP OS the path is different (usb boot)

/usr/share/hqplayer/readme.txt

--sh: /usr/share/hqplayer/readme.txt: No such file or directory

[stefano_mbp]

3 minutes ago, skipspence said:

--sh: /usr/share/hqplayer/readme.txt: No such file or directory

Then ask @Miska

 

[stefano_mbp]

18 minutes ago, skipspence said:

sh: /usr/share/hqplayer/readme.txt: No such file or directory

What if you enter:

cd /usr/share/hqplayer

enter

nano readme.txt

enter

[Carousel]

Aha! And the readme.txt really is just a text file on HQP OS. On my Ubuntu server it is a gzip compressed file, taking extra handling to get a view of what is inside. Takes me back to my base suggestion... post a link to the file on: Signalyst - Installing HQPlayer Embedded.

[maxijazz]

On 2/20/2024 at 10:35 PM, Miska said:

 

Stereo is the default. Yes, it is possible to do multichannel. Eventually that will begin to restrict your maximum sampling rate.

 

In normal UAC2 you have roughly following limits:

2 channels: 768k

4 channels: 384k:

8 channels: 192k

16 channels: 96k

32 channels: 48k

 

Overall, current limit for HQPlayer is 128 channels, except for some DSD cases 48 channels.

 

 

Do i need to do something (in HQPlayer Desktop on Windows or in OS NAA) to get 6 or 8 or 16 channels flowing from Apple Music on Mac to OS NAA over USB then to HQPlayer Desktop on Windows?
Currently i have set audio:default/0/6 in HQPd but in MacOS i see "Playback Inactive" for 2 outs (= 2 channels) only.

What i am doing wrong?