With regard and focus on "Go slim!" it's a great tutorial to understand, how less it takes to set up DIY music streaming system on raspberry pi. Thanks a lot!
I have similar setup with mopidy installed, and upmpdcli enables as media renderer. I have a hifiberry dac plus installed. But audio output is not that great when compared to volumio or moode audio player. Reason I installed mopidy, it has web interface plugins and has ability to read media from local storage on Raspberry pi. 😀
Using UPNP, the first unfold of the MQA stream is done in the Tidal app on your phone, then sent to the renderer through UPNP. No more unfolds can be done furthermore. Any DAC you may have at the renderer will receive a 44.1kHz/16 bit stream and will not signal it's an MQA stream, if capable. For the full MQA unfolding use a streamer capable of Tidal connect or with native Tidal support and an MQA decoding DAC.
You are incorrect when you say this is how spotify or tidal connect works. With upnp the stream travels through the phone/pc which acts as a player und uses upnp to send the music to the renderer. The same with AirPlay. These protocols have locked data transmission rates and any other rates will be resampled, meaning NOT bit perfect. Tidal connect acts as a remote controll service, so the stream runs directly to the renderer and it will play at the original samplerate/bitrate, meaning bit perfect. When playing MQA streams, in case you care about it, you need an MQA decoding DAC as the Tidal app on your phone does the controll only.
With regard and focus on "Go slim!" it's a great tutorial to understand, how less it takes to set up DIY music streaming system on raspberry pi. Thanks a lot!
Thanks a lot. Have been looking for a guide like this for a while, works like a charm.
Excellent video! Have you made a video on the streaming quality? What are your foobar settings?
Also how can we stream from paid services like Amazon music or quobuz? (using upnp)
I have similar setup with mopidy installed, and upmpdcli enables as media renderer.
I have a hifiberry dac plus installed.
But audio output is not that great when compared to volumio or moode audio player.
Reason I installed mopidy, it has web interface plugins and has ability to read media from local storage on Raspberry pi. 😀
with this setup can we connect to tidal mqa?
Using UPNP, the first unfold of the MQA stream is done in the Tidal app on your phone, then sent to the renderer through UPNP. No more unfolds can be done furthermore. Any DAC you may have at the renderer will receive a 44.1kHz/16 bit stream and will not signal it's an MQA stream, if capable.
For the full MQA unfolding use a streamer capable of Tidal connect or with native Tidal support and an MQA decoding DAC.
You are incorrect when you say this is how spotify or tidal connect works. With upnp the stream travels through the phone/pc which acts as a player und uses upnp to send the music to the renderer. The same with AirPlay. These protocols have locked data transmission rates and any other rates will be resampled, meaning NOT bit perfect.
Tidal connect acts as a remote controll service, so the stream runs directly to the renderer and it will play at the original samplerate/bitrate, meaning bit perfect. When playing MQA streams, in case you care about it, you need an MQA decoding DAC as the Tidal app on your phone does the controll only.
Do you mean Raspbian?
As for me it's much easier to install moode or something than this option.
To complicated for beginner like me….a slim os isn't needed because a pi4 has enough power to handel it….
Sorry bro but this solution is super hard.