Euphony OS w/Stylus player setup and issues thread

[flkin]

Some update news:

 

Final v4 targeted for end of this month. And it will be installed in the existing v3 partition so v3 music files and playlists will be intact and should work. 
 

In the next update we will be allowed to add EUPHONY_MUSIC partition of non-active Euphony installation to the current library. Unfortunately User playlists from that partition will still not work yet. 

 

The mess of having to copy music out of the v3 partition for v4 to access has messed up my album sorting. So glad this will solve that and really looking forward to the final release end of the month. 😄👍🏻

[walloon]

On 6/9/2022 at 8:20 AM, beetlesonique said:

Has anyone managed to get HQPlayer Endpoint running? For some reason it does not work for me in V4. Roon can’t connect to it and in Euphony I get an error message as well. 
 

Also in the settings menu in Euphony there is no tab for Audio output when HQPlayer embedded is selected.

 

 

Same here, can’t get Roon connect to EuphonyEP using HQplayer as transport protocol. It stopped working in v3 when Roon upgraded HQPlayer but I was hoping Euphony v4 would fix this. Anyone?

[beetlesonique]

5 hours ago, walloon said:

Same here, can’t get Roon connect to EuphonyEP using HQplayer as transport protocol. It stopped working in v3 when Roon upgraded HQPlayer but I was hoping Euphony v4 would fix this. Anyone?

This particular feature will not be fixed in V4 due to limitations in Roon

 

See over here at Euphony support for an explanation:

 

https://euphony-audio.com/hesk/knowledgebase.php

[Lukasluis]

I could not seem to find the marked options in V4? 

[flkin]

I have a spare Orico Dual Bay SSD M.2 running a hardware RAID 0 USB 3.1 drive in the office which operates without additional external power. It runs far faster than my SanDisk Ultra USB stick.

 

Curious to see if I could load the Euphony image into a very fast multi-disk RAID0 drive, it worked and booted up very fast. Runs as fast as Euphony installed in an internal drive (unlike when running from the SanDisk USB stick) and seems to be more stable during operations. Despite using RAMROOT, there is definitely USB disk access during operations and this drive really helped during library scans etc.

 

From what I can tell, it sounds a little better too. Images a little more real 

 

Might be worth the time to try this sort of thing out while waiting for the v4 full release

[BCRich]

13 hours ago, Lukasluis said:

I could not seem to find the marked options in V4? 

Check….Library Miscellaneous and Music Service Playback Options.

[al2813]

Question:is any one using the web radio section? I run a little RPI streamer in the kitchen connected to powered speaker and was using it as a UPNP end point to my V3. From time to time I also play radio. A bit of radio Paradise and a couple of local radio stations. The preset Radio stations in V3 was nothing to write home about but it worked, and I added manually the few radio stations I needed. 

 

In V4 nothing seems to work. The radio browser has nothing behind. there' s a top 500 list that partially works, but then I cannot switch stations. nothing works. I cannot pause play and I cannot start stations. Also my own added stations do not work. 

 

I have an open ticket and can report back, but I wonder how others are doing? 

[Joerg D]

Hello,

can anyone say something about the upsampling filters Nearest, Linear, Cubic, Blackman Nuttal and Kaiser? What does quality 0-3 mean?

 

Thank you

Jörg

 

[beautiful music]

 A new released v.20220614

[al2813]

Am I the only one to show a wrong bit figure on high res PCM streaming in UPNP (eg. 16/96 instead of 24/96)? 

Just checking before reporting to Željko

[Smaragdhk]

17 minutes ago, al2813 said:

Am I the only one to show a wrong bit figure on high res PCM streaming in UPNP (eg. 16/96 instead of 24/96)? 

Just checking before reporting to Željko

You’re not alone… I made a few screen grabs for my reference, but this is with the DAC connected directly via USB… not UPNP…

so bit rate and resolution display seems often erroneous…

[c-w]

2 hours ago, al2813 said:

Am I the only one to show a wrong bit figure on high res PCM streaming in UPNP (eg. 16/96 instead of 24/96)? 

Just checking before reporting to Željko

 

Seems that in today's update there may be a fix for this issue:

- Attempted fix for correct bit display in signal path

[flkin]

v 20220620 is out.

 

The v3 music partition can now be accessed.

[al2813]

16 hours ago, c-w said:

 

Seems that in today's update there may be a fix for this issue:

- Attempted fix for correct bit display in signal path

 

I confirm yesterday's fix resolved this issue, and in my system UPNP playback is flawless. I did not yet try in my main system, but even in my kitchen system which is very basic, I get a clear impression of better SQ with UPNP now. Maybe a placebo :-) 

 

Web radio - despite some fixes is still buggy as hell and unusable - I wrote Željko this morning. 

 

 

 

[msb1]

About 15 days go my Asus Motherboard failed and had to be sent back for replacement. This PC uses an AMD Ryzen 7 3700x processor with 16GB ECC RAM powered by a Hdplex LPSU  400W DC-ATX supply.

 

I had an old Gigabyte Motherboard with an Intel Pentium Dual Core CPU and 8GB DDR3 RAM lying which I thought I would try with Euphony V4. Everything installed smoothly and I was surprised at how good it sounded in comparison to the AMD 3700x.

 

During this time I also got my hands on the AMD 4700s kit with 16gb DDR6 RAM.

 

I got the Asus motherboard back a few days ago and compared all 3. I played around with different settings (CPU frequency, isolation, etc.) and to my ears, the old Pentium sounds the best (quieter, darker backgrounds and warmer). I compared them using Roon as well as stylus.

 

Has anyone had a similar experience?

[sunny_time_99]

Hi, yes... After different setups, a lot of NUCs, PCs, Multicore sind so on...I prefer a Single Core AMD CPU, 4GB RAM, fanless Design. Needs a Premium class Power supply and clock mod. Thats it

 

Regards

 

Sunny

[Dev]

10 hours ago, msb1 said:

During this time I also got my hands on the AMD 4700s kit with 16gb DDR6 RAM.

 

DDR6 RAM ? Wow! 😲

[AudioDoctor]

2 hours ago, Dev said:

 

DDR6 RAM ? Wow! 😲

 

I am sure that is a typo.

[87mpi]

13 hours ago, msb1 said:

About 15 days go my Asus Motherboard failed and had to be sent back for replacement. This PC uses an AMD Ryzen 7 3700x processor with 16GB ECC RAM powered by a Hdplex LPSU  400W DC-ATX supply.

 

I had an old Gigabyte Motherboard with an Intel Pentium Dual Core CPU and 8GB DDR3 RAM lying which I thought I would try with Euphony V4. Everything installed smoothly and I was surprised at how good it sounded in comparison to the AMD 3700x.

 

During this time I also got my hands on the AMD 4700s kit with 16gb DDR6 RAM.

 

I got the Asus motherboard back a few days ago and compared all 3. I played around with different settings (CPU frequency, isolation, etc.) and to my ears, the old Pentium sounds the best (quieter, darker backgrounds and warmer). I compared them using Roon as well as stylus.

 

Has anyone had a similar

Roon is gorgeous but has the worst audio quality ever.. 

[genvirt]

5 hours ago, 87mpi said:

Roon is gorgeous but has the worst audio quality ever.. 

Because of that fact - we have an Euphony:) (IMHO)

[al2813]

2 hours ago, genvirt said:

Because of that fact - we have an Euphony:) (IMHO)

 

Exactly. I fight the Euphony GUI every day but SQ wise there's no way I am going back to Roon. 

[Smaragdhk]

2 minutes ago, al2813 said:

 

Exactly. I fight the Euphony GUI every day but SQ wise there's no way I am going back to Roon. 

 

Never mind about Roon, ... you have to admit the new Euphony interface looks gorgeous ... and the sound improvements versus V3 have taken it to the next level... a happy camper here, but the trial runs out in 7 days ^_^

[an333]

27 minutes ago, Smaragdhk said:

a happy camper here, but the trial runs out in 7 days ^_^

I am also concerned about this question. The probationary period is coming to an end soon. What happens next? I don't want to go back to v3.

[flkin]

Despite it being far better than the old v3, it’s a pity the single most useful search tool I can think of has not been incorporated in v4 so far - search all favorites in local, Tidal and Qobuz at the same time. 
 

I think this is Roon’s strength - to display an integrated database of all favorites. And then of course it’s ability to find new stuff. 

[flkin]

If v4 final release comes out end of Jun as planned, the trial period ending won’t be an issue… 😄

 

Bite the bullet and just do it Željko!