AZ Craig

Since I have always assumed that mechanical disks will fail at some point, I have replaced the drive that comes with the L1 with a SSD drive. It probably invalidates the warranty but I assumed that I could put the original drive back in if I had the units still under warranty. The process is pretty simple but you need a very long narrow phillips screwdriver because the front panel is screwed in from the back which means you have to unscrew through the opening in the back. Other than that, it's just like changing a drive in a PC. I keep the original drive as a backup.

Here’s a cheap, quick, easy fix. 4x magnification. Just put it in front of the display. Fresnel

Chungjh im not sure that I’d hear the difference as I am nearly 70 and played music way too loud all my life. ;-)

The two L1 servers that I have did have mechanical drives (it’s been a few years ago so maybe the are using SSD). Replacing the was relatively easy but you need a really long and narrow screwdriver to reach the front screws. I just cloned the original drive to the SSD and was good to go. It might void the warranty. So be careful. the L1 is super simple. Plug in the usb to your computer, drag/drop the music to it like a standard usb drive, unplug usb and plug in Ethernet cable. All done, that’s it. The server show up on the LUMIN as well as other devices I have in my home.

I have two L1 servers and they work great. I really like not having to deal with NAS software as the L1 it is just load-and-go. First thing I did was replace the spinning disk hard drive with a SSD. Works like a champ and I don't have to worry about the day when the spinning disk goes clunk in the night.

I believe so but the second L1 is at my second home two hours away. I haven't been to that house in six months so I can't confirm that but I think it had the problem. Now that I know the proper L1 reset routine, my issues may be resolved.

I always do that when I re-connect the L1 to the network.

Some progress after changing the containing folder. The art shows up in the upper left corner when the album is played, but not in the album view or the tiny icon next to the album name.

I renamed the art file to folder.jpg and pulled up the album with Linn Kazoo with the same results... no art shown. I also deleted and reinstalled the Lumin app. The album does not show art on any of the locations that the Lumin app shows art. Same with some other albums.

I am having the same issue with my L1. Spent better part of the day yesterday trying to figure out the problem. A handful of the 400 albums do not display the cover art. I download the music from SuperHiRez which includes the art in a separate jpg file. When I open the album with MP3Tag, the art shows on the album level and the track level. Of the two albums I downloaded, neither showed art in the Lumin app. After numerous tries, one album showed art after I loaded the album into Mp3Tag and only changed the Genre (no other changes). I did the same with the second album but still no art. I have tried changing the art out to lower and higher resolution jpg files but no luck there either. This is not a new problem as I have had a small percentage of albums not showing art for at least a year.

Cool, thanks for the quick reply.

I have an ignorant question. Since the Lumin L1 is a NAS, can it simultaneously support more than one Lumin player on the same network? I'm guessing it would work but not sure if the L1 can handle the multitasking.

I was getting really bad service from Tidal yesterday. Slow to start the music and more dropouts than content. I test at 200 mbs internet service. Killing the Lumin app didn't help. Stream from my L1 has no problem. Eventually, Tidal started working again so may just be a transient problem on Tidal's end.

Based on your experience, I signed up for the free trial as I had let my Tidal subscription run out some time ago. While the MQA sounds great, I am disappointed over how few of their albums are available on MQA. In total, I only see 457 albums across all genres and, naturally, many of the oldies were recorded in lower res formats. I'll give it 60 days and see if they begin to offer a more robust selection of MQA offerings before I decide to just stay with Qobuz.

I did contact arcman and he gave me the secret sauce. Once you get Tunnel Bear connected to the UK, you must use the UK qobuz site, not the US .com site.