AudioBob

Hi Rexp. Yes, I hope too that they both stream at CD quality. I was just wondering whether anyone had any conclusive evidence that they were, and not at 256kbps 😉

G'day All. Greetings from Australia. I rarely post here, but I am a regular reader for several years, and I have 2 questions I hope someone will be able to clear up for me. I have a Samsung Galaxy s21 with the Apple Music App. The App will play at 16 bit/44kHz and 24bit/48kHz (Apple "lossless"), and Dolby Atmos over the phone and headphones (as indicated on the App display), and through my Dragonfly Red at up to 96kHz as confirmed by the various light indicators. These options are discussed here : https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210412 https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-stream-lossless-audio-hi-res-music-apple-music-android/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/how-to-listen-to-lossless-and-dolby-atmos-on-apple-music/ Question 1 - when I chromecast Apple Music by way of the phone to a Chromecast Dongle or Google TV (I have both) what bitrate does it stream at? 256kbps? At 16/44 CD quality? something else? I have scoured the web and can find a few references to what others suspect is happening (streaming at the old 265kbps) but does anyone have any hard evidence of what is actually streaming? Question 2 - what bitrate is streaming on Apple TV 4th gen (*not* 4K) on Apple Music (not by way of a phone as discussed above - just through the Apple Music app on the Apple TV). Thanks in advance 🙂

Thanks Elishevaa. Much appreciated 😊

Hi Renato, Your video is a beautiful presentation of Daphile and the Material Skin (and Hardware!). Can you please tell me 2 things about how you use the Material Skin? 1. In the Album Artist view, you show the Artists as thumbnails. How do you do this? (I can only get a list in Album Artists ☹️) 2. You press what looks like an "Information" button on the top right hand corner of the screen, which then shows various artist information. My system does not show this button. Do I have to enable it somehow? Thank you for your assistance. Kind regards, Rob.

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Hi Jud. And hello everyone.This is my first post for several years. I usually browse posts and take advice, which has been invaluable. But your search Jud above prompts me to post with my recent experience. I have tried several ways of taking my music with me over several years on my commute to and from work, including Google Play uploading (transcoding down to 320 kbs - not my preference either) and carrying all my music on a SeaGate wifi drive and playing on my iPhone with mConnect or similar app (I had to make sure the Drive was charged, setup took time and connection often did so too). I started backing up my music in the last year to OneDrive after Crashplan stopped its consumer plan. I realised that since I have an Office 365 subscription (for Outlook, Word, Excel, etc) I had 1 TB of cloud storage sitting there doing nothing. If you also have OneDrive with enough free space (I realise your Google Drive is limited) or can get some cloud storage cheaply/free, there are now a number of apps on iOS that play music directly from the cloud. I tried several, and settled on CloudBeats. There’s a free trial version. Paid version is about AUS $8. I find this solution easy, almost free (for me) and I only have to have my iPhone with me. I can play my songs at full resolution. My music is nicely sorted with art work and genre. As I write this it’s sounding like an ad for the app. It isn’t. I have no affiliation. It’s a vote for the solution. 😊 I hope this is of some assistance. Cheers. Edit. Apparently this app also plays from a home server. If that helps.

Hi precisionmike. I am interested in your comment about wifi hard drives only transmitting at 320kbs. I use a Seagate Wireless Plus while travelling on the train to and from work to stream my 250GB music library to my iPhone. I used PlugPlayer as the streaming player. My impression from the heat generated by my iPhone when playing Hi Rez files (down converting the Hi Rez files I presume), and having read nothing previously to the contrary, is that the SWP streams the files at their native resolution (lossy, lossless or Hi Rez) and it is the iPhone that then converts them when required. Have you found otherwise? Rob.

Hi Joelha. Have you tried running daphile on it? ;-)

Hi Kimmo. I was also having trouble with SrvrPowerCtrl Suspend using the beta version. However, for what it's worth, when I upgraded to the version: http://www.daphile.com/tmp.P8SxQ0Qwy6/daphile-14.08-b311632-x86_64.iso, suspend worked OK. Cheers, Rob.

Hi Joel. When you've got Daphile showing up in Explorer, i just dragged the Daphile folder in Windows over to the Favorites list on the left of Explorer. Once you've got it there as a Favorite, when you open Explorer after that and click on the Favorite, Daphile immediately shows. Hope this helps :-)