Apple Music to DAC over Ethernet?

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@shankha

I want to have HQP in between in the signal Path because I don’t want to have automatic bitrate setting.

Hi, I’m a bit confused about this part I quoted because above you wrote:

@shankha

That’s why I was thinking of using by HQP in between to do the automatic switching.

Confused by do want and don’t want

@shankha

(I assume that you can’t have Apple Music and HQP running on the same machine to do this… I can get a second machine running HQP or a Linux box with HQP OS.)

How can I do that? Sorry for being dense, I don’t know that much about HQP and how it works. Simple language please thank you.

As previously mentioned, you can’t have auto rate switching on MacOS - only iPad/iOS supports this (at the moment).

You don’t need to buy a separate machine though - just the 1 Mac can run Apple Music and HQPlayer.

Explained in detail in separate thread already:

Using any audio source with HQPlayer - Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, Soundcloud [2021-2022]

I can do it 3 ways. A Bluesound Node 2i (Airplay 2 input) feeding HQPlayer Embedded on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS. Deezer and Spotify (even their upcoming HiFi) is limited to 44.1kHz sample rates, so Airplay 2 is fine here. No sample rate conversions. Can even use the Node 2i’s Spotify Connect input. Could use a Cambridge Audio CXV V2 or Chromecast Audio for Chromecast input. Anything with a TOSlink output really. PC/Macbook directly USB connected to HQPlayer OS running on UpBoard Gateway. …