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Foobar2000 and musicbee both have dedicated remote control apps. Both support wasapi as well.

I listen to 192-320kbps mp3 in the car. Road noise is a significant enough factor as to render any further attempts to optimize the fidelity of my listening experience in the car pointless.

to be honest, this thread really was never about hifi. It is about dragging an emerging standard through the mud due to the content control implications inherent in its delivery method. In other words, *** the police.

Well, being that it's free you're out nothing but some time if there's no effect. To speak to the general purpose of the thread, I guess there is a war because people want to be assured that they are doing the best they can given their situation. But it's hard to have that reassurance when: 1. the range of choices is so expansive. 2. the price of said choices varies so much 3. no one can REALLY take anyone else's advice on how equipment sounds due to the mind-boggling (near infinite) number of factors that can affect one's perception of sound. There's no magic bullet and a lot of people desperately want one. All we can really do is consider our options, silence our minds, listen and use our best judgement. The litmus test for me is if I bob my head to the music, if I sing out loud, if my body involuntarily responds to what my stereo is producing, I've done good.

*Raises hand.* For my taste there is almost no viable music in any digital format that isn't PCM.

How would I spend it?I'd keep the components I have and spend 10 grand on clean power and room correction.

well maybe audiophile publications ought to start publishing honest reviews that are transparent as possible. If the items sucks then it sucks. If that results in no more review units coming in from boutique companies that charge 5 billion for a pair of speakers then maybe the publications will start buying their own gear for review and then morph into an industry for the common person's budget and the high end will have to adjust or die to stay alive.

@[B][URL="http://www.computeraudiophile.com/member.php?u=28447"]Confused[/URL][/B] the GMMP program has a backup and restore feature that writes the ratings to id3 tags. You could either then overwrite your files with the ones on your phone or you could probably set up some sort of SQL server to maintain an external database of the metadata although that's a bit beyond me at the moment.

in my own experience my DAC will upconvert to either PCM176 or 192 depending on the the starting sample rate. if it's fed one of those sample rates at the outset it goes into NOS mode. I don't use HQplayer but I have fed the same track in 24/48 and 24/192 and I wanna say they sounded the same to my ears. That led me to believe that the upsampler in my DAC is good enough to warrant me not really caring what the sample rate of the source file is.

CA IS the target market for Roon. If not here, where else? And with the amount of buzz around this software there is on here, it's pretty clear that the market is sold on the features but not on the price. You can't have an omelette unless you break some eggs, as they say. There are other ways of achieving similar results to what roon provides regarding metadata but they all require more work. Kodi provides a partial facsimile with it's scraper engine and foobarcon pro will allow you to directly pull the wikipedia article of the artist you're listening to, directly on your phone. For some, that is enough, for others it isn't. As a music discovery engine I didn't find it all that compelling but I have established habits for finding new music which include posting on enthusiast forums for the types of genres I listen to and that approach worked far better for me at finding new music than an algorithm.

@witchdoctor this is the wallpaper for my flac server

agreed. I spent a nice chunk of time a few years ago looking for music with higher than stereo mixes and came up with not much. And not much has changed since then. With the way music consumption has changed to a streaming, mobile activity I don't expect a giant surge in either esoteric stereo or multichannel formats as they would require a specific use case for their consumption. It's possible that this will change. I would love to see a future where all music is released with properly mixed and positioned 3D/surround mixes. Would be very nice.

M.2 drive loads songs faster than the speed of light barrier which has the unfortunate side effect of making the song play backwards. SSDs don't have this problem

Hey man, it's all good.

I wasn't. I was referring to the OP's tirade. If Danny is interested in hearing my critiques of the software I'll PM him.