Article: JPLAY for iOS Is Now Available

[Jud]

3 hours ago, Apollo said:

the 1st non-roon player that supports integrating local and streaming music.

 

Audirvana has had this for a long time. (I'm not trying to turn this into an Audirvana vs. JPlay thread - please enjoy JPlay and the new remote. I just wanted to note this item for anyone who was unaware.)

[Jud]

13 hours ago, Apollo said:

Last time I tested (5-6 months ago) Audirvana shows your local library seperately from your Qobuz favorites.

I.e. albums from 1 artist are not available in 1 integrated view.

You have the choice. You can select the separate views, or plug the artist's name into the search field and see both together. (Icons are used in the combined view to show which albums and tracks are local and which are Qobuz.)

 

I haven't used JPlay, but have no doubt the new remote is a very welcome thing for users of the product.

[Jud]

Out of curiosity I decided to try JPlay for iOS. Unfortunately it doesn't see my UPnP/DLNA/OpenHome server.  Is JPlay for iOS compatible with OpenHome?

 

I have both BubbleUPnPServer and MinimServer running, with upmpdcli as the renderer.  (This is on ArcoLinux, an Arch-based distro.  I have the same setup on Xubuntu, but haven't tried that.)  Linn Kazoo, mConnect, Lumin, and Audirvana can always see my local music files with this setup; Kazoo, mConnect and Audirvana can always play Qobuz, while Lumin sometimes will and sometimes won't. When I have tried HQPlayer-embedded I recall it at least plays local files; I don't remember if it can play music from Qobuz.  But JPlay for iOS won't do either. It doesn't see the computer running UPnP as a device, only my phone.  (The computer is connected to my network via optical Ethernet.  My phone of course is using Wi-Fi, with a very strong signal and good speed (over 320 Mbps when I tested just now)).

 

Any suggestions, or is my setup just one that JPlay for iOS has some hiccups with at this stage?

 

[Jud]

50 minutes ago, Jud said:

Out of curiosity I decided to try JPlay for iOS. Unfortunately it doesn't see my UPnP/DLNA/OpenHome server.  Is JPlay for iOS compatible with OpenHome?

 

I have both BubbleUPnPServer and MinimServer running, with upmpdcli as the renderer.  (This is on ArcoLinux, an Arch-based distro.  I have the same setup on Xubuntu, but haven't tried that.)  Linn Kazoo, mConnect, Lumin, and Audirvana can always see my local music files with this setup; Kazoo, mConnect and Audirvana can always play Qobuz, while Lumin sometimes will and sometimes won't. When I have tried HQPlayer-embedded I recall it at least plays local files; I don't remember if it can play music from Qobuz.  But JPlay for iOS won't do either. It doesn't see the computer running UPnP as a device, only my phone.  (The computer is connected to my network via optical Ethernet.  My phone of course is using Wi-Fi, with a very strong signal and good speed (over 320 Mbps when I tested just now)).

 

Any suggestions, or is my setup just one that JPlay for iOS has some hiccups with at this stage?

 

 

Heh, oldest remedy in the book, restarted the phone and this time JPlay picked up both local files and Qobuz.

 

Is there a merged view of both local and Qobuz music by an artist?  I see separate views.

[Jud]

Moving around in the various apps I've got for playing local and streaming music, I have to say JPlay for iOS at this point is only rivaled by the Audirvana remote, and of course one needs Audirvana Origin or Audirvana Studio to use the latter.  In particular, ease of searching in Qobuz is already better than Linn Kazoo and mConnect, and for whatever reason the Lumin app, while lovely, just doesn't pick up on my ability to play from Qobuz reliably. (It's quite happy with my local files.)

[Jud]

1 hour ago, stefano_mbp said:

Audirvana remote, like Roon Remote, is a remote command that mirrors on your mobile device the functionality of the respective server, it seems to me compare apples and oranges. Audirvana remote is not a UPNP app, it is a completely different thing (like Roon remote as well).

 

The ultimate result is similar: You play music by using a phone app to work with software (a player application or server) running on a computer.

 

For me, since I prefer upsampling in software, one nice thing is that the Audirvana remote or JPlay controlling HQP-embedded will allow you to do that from your phone.

 

 

1 hour ago, stefano_mbp said:

I’ve been using Qobuz on Lumïn app for some months (thanks to various trial periods) and never had any trouble to play from it, if Bubbleupnpserver was running and rightly configured. I couldn’t find any difference between Qobuz and local library. Could you please elaborate ?

 

Thanks

 

I run both bubbleupnpserver and minimserver on my two Linux distros. MConnect and Linn Kazoo, and now JPlay, see both of these reliably. For some reason Lumin always detects the local files through minimserver, but only sometimes sees the Qobuz capability of bubbleupnpserver.

[Jud]

1 hour ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

 

I've been encouraging UPnP server deveopers to incorporate more features into the core of their software. A convolution engine would be nice, as would upsamping. However, I appear to be an edge case, thinking that these would be good optioins :~)

As with HQP-embedded and Audirvana, development along these lines seems most likely to come from player software developers.