Streaming

HiFi
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RPi only

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How did you manage to get LMS running on a Mac Mini, me and @edd9000 tried and never succeeded.

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LMS worked fine, the Tidal plugin (ickstream which is now dead) didnt work.

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Ah, yes remember now. Is there no way still to integrate Tidal, unless you use Roon?

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Tidal works fine, just uses a different app.

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I was using Tidal on the Mac, I’m using Roon at the moment and it’s good with Tidal integrated. Just wondered if there was an alternative.

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I meant a different app within LMS.

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Tidal is part of the new versions of LMS now.

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Yes but it’s still an “app” within lms. It can add your tidal library into your main library as well, I haven’t decided if I like that or not.

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As @anon14766838 says, rpi only, but if you buy as a player the rpi is attached.

My experience has been that this is not a frustration free way of streaming, it’s just a cheap-skates way of getting to sound on par with the £1k streamers.

If I could go back 2 years and speak to my tight-arse self I would say find the extra dough and buy a plug-and-play solution.

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Yer thinking about the bluesound node 2i,have also thought about just buying a pc sound card with a digital out and fitiing it to my pc and then into a dac then into my amps.Already have a good dac and my pc is in same room as hifi.

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That is what my friend does, and you are not limited to what goes inside the PC. Probably best to use a USB sound card.

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Very good idea cost wise too! Sorry if I repeat what others have said, I did it this way for a while and used Jriver and foobar from pc with good sound results. Jriver has a remote app too, sure foobar would have too, so you wouldn’t have to stare at the pc screen either.

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Yer think that is the path i am going to take,its not like it will be my main source.

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What dac do you have? USB inputs available?

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It is a old school Kinshaw,no usb input so i need a sound card with a coax out or buy a usb dac seems to be a few on e-bay.

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As it’s for Spotify, couldn’t you just use Airplay (or android equivalent) to a receiver with digi out? I use Airplay to my tv or an airport express and then into dac via optical, it’s about as easy as it gets. I can also do this to play music from my nas.

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You could buy a USB > SPDIF converter, I had a Gustard U12 for a while and it did the job well.

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@Ciderpig it’s amazing how up to date LMS feels now. Install the Material Skin plugin on it and it’s fantastic.

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These are the plugins I think you’ll want.

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A friend is going to lend me his ifi zen dac for a few days,will see how i get on with that.