Online music playback
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Roon has to be the future?
It is around £350 for a lifetime sub, but you run it on a nas or pc and then have endpoints, which can be from most manufactures, sonos, naim, Meridian etc. etc.
Or you can install dietpi on a £35 rasberry pi and use that straight into your amp.
You can go in digitally, analogue, usb dac, loads of options and as good as it gets quality wise.
It is around £350 for a lifetime sub, but you run it on a nas or pc and then have endpoints, which can be from most manufactures, sonos, naim, Meridian etc. etc.
Or you can install dietpi on a £35 rasberry pi and use that straight into your amp.
You can go in digitally, analogue, usb dac, loads of options and as good as it gets quality wise.
Or you could just suck it up, pay £9.99 (which is no money at all really in this day and age) for access to literally everything you will want to listen to and keep the CDs, you can take some time to sit down and listen to when you get the chance.
Why do you want to out your CDs, is it space or trying to be more "up to date"?
Why do you want to out your CDs, is it space or trying to be more "up to date"?
This may be too much of a project, but I've used Hifiberry (a DAC for the raspberry PI) to produce decent audio from my NAS server.
There is plenty of software to allow control from your phone.
My biggest issue was finding a decent power supply. Made a big difference to the sound.
My set up is nothing like as neat as the example boxes, but that's not important as it's out of sight.
https://www.hifiberry.com
https://www.hifiberry.com/build/software-selection...
Option 2 is a PS4. Your music selection will be displayed on the TV screen. A PS3 will do except I don't think it plays FLAC.
Final option is a google chromecast audio but I found it a little temperamental: https://www.computeraudiophile.com/forums/topic/28...
NDA said:
I've been listening to digitally streamed music since it was first launched - and am a heavy user of Spotify.
But it was interesting to hear a CD the other day..... the difference was astounding....
Compared to Spotify?But it was interesting to hear a CD the other day..... the difference was astounding....
Not surprised, Spotify is compressed to buggery.
Tidal or Qobuz is what you need, better than CD.
gizlaroc said:
Everyone I know has said that about CDs.
"I want to own my music".
They buy all the hardware to do it, then get Tidal and never listen to anything other than streamed again.
I swore I'd only have CDs then gave in to Spotify. But I tend to use it for finding new bands and if I like an album enough, I'll buy on CD - I have bands ill always buy their CDs purely for collection purposes, so I have gone from buying a few a month to a handful a year. "I want to own my music".
They buy all the hardware to do it, then get Tidal and never listen to anything other than streamed again.
gizlaroc said:
NDA said:
I've been listening to digitally streamed music since it was first launched - and am a heavy user of Spotify.
But it was interesting to hear a CD the other day..... the difference was astounding....
Compared to Spotify?But it was interesting to hear a CD the other day..... the difference was astounding....
Not surprised, Spotify is compressed to buggery.
Tidal or Qobuz is what you need, better than CD.
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