The Ultimate Network Solution

[seeteeyou]

Many thanks for sharing your nice solution.

 

BTW, do you think that lesser cables / modems / switches / PSUs would still make any perceivable differences for Qobuz / TIDAL or otherwise?

 

https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/30376-a-novel-way-to-massively-improve-the-sq-of-computer-audio-streaming/page/705/?tab=comments#comment-1090704

On 11/19/2020 at 6:32 PM, cool_chris said:

I agree 100 % but as we all know now the noise gets "inprinted" in the data you are passing via switch .

Don't ask me why , I dont know. I wish we know all about it .

Good clock with great power device /SR7, DC4/Jcat Optimo will pass it to RAM undistructed or I should call it less distructed.

 

For instance, maybe we could try a generic switch with this PSU

 

https://www.mini-box.com/DCDC-USB-200

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- Remote ON/OFF switch capable of switching up to 6A, 8A peak.

 

[seeteeyou]

Each lossless stream from TIDAL appeared to be a complete FLAC file according to the log files from multiple software

 

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tidal-fails-to-play/79684

10/04 18:41:57 Info: [kitchen] [zoneplayer] Playing: http://sp-pr-fa.audio.tidal.com/mediatracks/CAEaKRInNWMwNjNjYzllZDYxMmQ1MTgxM2NkNTFkYWNiZmE3NjRfNjEubXA0/0.flac
10/04 18:41:57 Info: [kitchen] [zoneplayer] Queueing: http://sp-pr-fa.audio.tidal.com/mediatracks/CAEaKRInN2FjNDM5ZTU0MjlkZjVmMGYxM2YwMWVjODNjMDQxMzlfNjEubXA0/0.flac

 

https://community.volumio.org/t/glitching-15band-equaliser/41508/5

player: played "http://sp-pr-fa.audio.tidal.com/mediatracks/CAEaKRInY2NlZWQxMWUzYWI5MDJmM2FjYjQ2Yjg0ZTdjMWJhNWFfNjEubXA0/0.flac

 

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113227-Tidal-cutting-off-end-of-tracks-worse-as-album-goes-on

[20-11-13 15:09:11.9311] Slim::Plugin::WiMP::ProtocolHandler::_getTrack (233) Getting next track playback info from SN for wimp://13852806.flac

 

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If we're able to launch the software player from a script of some sort, then NIC could be disabled / re-enabled easily like this

 

https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/58164-building-a-diy-music-server/page/40/?tab=comments#comment-1086912

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sudo ifconfig eth0 down
aplay filename
sudo ifconfig eth0 up

 

save that and exit

 

Make it executable e.g. 'chmod +x NetworkDown.sh'

 

Then run it e.g. './NetworkDown.sh'

 

Should do it. If you replace 'filename' in the file with "$1" then you can run the script and pass the filename as an argument e.g. './NetworkDown.sh myfile'

 

script to disable / enable network interface

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-networking/script-to-disable-enable-network-interface/8eb15e24-7d85-4a16-b42a-a874b9bb3a28