As the title suggests, it would be great if we had the option under a device’s settings in Roon to disable the ‘Hi-Res’ flag option for streaming via Chromecast if that particular device does not have the ‘Hi-Res’ flag enabled due to poor implementation by the manufacturer despite the device being able to support 24bit/96kHz streaming.
what device are you having trouble with?
When I stream from Qobuz via my Roon core to my B&O Beosound 1 using chromecast it only streams up to 24bit/48kHz. However, when I stream directly from the Qobuz app on my iPad to the Beosound 1 via Chromecast it correctly streams up to 24bit/96kHz.
I’m told the reason for this is because B&O haven’t implemented Chromecast correctly on device and Roon will only stream up to 24bit/96kHz via Chromecast if a device sends a Hi-Res Flag as this is the correct implementation.
My request is to give us the option to disable the Hi-Res flag option for individual devices where manufacturers haven’t implemented chromecast correctly to allow us to stream up to chromecast’s maximum bit-rate.
Have you tried setting Roon DSP Engine to downsample those Hi-Res to 48kHz?
Sorry, I may have not explained it very well.
For example, if I try to play a 24bit/192kHz track via chromecast from Qobuz in Roon, the track gets downsampled to 24bit/48kHz despite chromecast being able to handle a maximum bit rate of 24bit/96kHz.
When I try and stream the same track directly from the Qobuz app on my iPad via chromecast, it correctly downsamples to 24bit/96kHz.
The way it’s been explained to me is that this occurs because Roon doesn’t receive a “Hi-Res Flag” from the Beosound 1 because B&O has not implemented chromecast correctly on their device and Roon will only downsample the track to 24bit/96kHz if it receives the this “Hi-Res Flag” otherwise Roon downsamples to 24bit/48kHz instead. I would just like an option the disable the “Hi-Res Flag” requirement for devices such as the Beosound 1 where chromecast has not been implemented correctly by the manufacturer in order to enable streaming to the device at chromecast’s maximum bitrate of 24bit/96kHz for tracks that are encoded above 24bit/48kHz.
I’ve adjusted the topic’s title, hope this helps.
Ah I see. You would like to force hi res on devices that don’t broadcast that capability.
Thanks for amending the title.
Yes, that’s right.
+1 to this. Another post 5 years ago mentioned providing per-device rules inside Roon to override the missing capability flag but I’m not sure that plan ever happened?
I have some Harman Kardon Citation 500 speakers that are 24bit/96KHz capable, but Roon downsamples because I’m guessing the Citations don’t report the flag. Now that Roon is part of the Harman family, maybe Roon engineers can bug the Harman Kardon firmware folks to implement the flag correctly as well?