HQPlayer Desktop thread

jussi_laako · March 3, 2022, 7:04am

Yes, I will do it at some point.

dabassgoesboomboom · March 3, 2022, 7:34am

Official Qobuz desktop app shows ‘Explicit’ in the album name for the hi-res version.

But HQP Client doesn’t show this for the 24/96 version?

jussi_laako · March 3, 2022, 8:22am

Yeah, explicit flag is ignored at the moment.

Jeffrey_Robbins · March 5, 2022, 3:21pm

@jussi_laako — if all is working fine with the old NAA images on my microrendus and RPI4s, is there a reason to upgrade the NAAs? And if so, can it be done on the microrendus? Thanks. JCR

jussi_laako · March 5, 2022, 3:59pm

Not really. If things work, it doesn’t provide any new functionality.

Although if you have spare microSD cards, it is very easy to swap and compare.

Jeffrey_Robbins · March 5, 2022, 5:10pm

Upgrading the NAA wouldn’t impact the clicking sounds I regularly get between tracks, would it? JCR

Magnus · March 5, 2022, 5:13pm

I have the latest NAA and the clicks between tracks with different sample rates, so as far as I know the answer to your question is no.

jussi_laako · March 5, 2022, 7:51pm

NAA/HQPlayer OS have some special features in that area, but other than that there are no major differences in that area.

dabassgoesboomboom · March 13, 2022, 5:10pm

Thanks for this update @jussi_laako

Now I can go directly to the Explicit album

anon12882806 · March 14, 2022, 8:20am

" Mar 12 2022 HQPlayer 4 Desktop 4.17.2 released.
Small change to multicore DSP full case. Optimize IIR EQ loaded from text file. Disable stream buffering for raw streams. Flag explicit content on Qobuz." https://www.signalyst.eu/

User manual, still claims version 14.17.1 please, checked with MacOS i86 (@jussi_laako) HQP Desktop itself is upgraded to 4.17.2, just manual.

jussi_laako · March 14, 2022, 2:33pm

Yes, nothing has changed in the manual. I update the version number in manual only if there’s something to update in the manual itself. So you know the manual applies “starting from version X”.

tahsu · April 8, 2022, 2:51pm

I usually run embedded but was just testing with desktop on my fanless i7 with 7567U CPU. Whats a good all-round filter (rock, pop, electronic) and modulator combination that is fairly lightweight? I was trying for DSD 256 which I have run in the past via roon, but I can’t recall if I ever tried with HQ Player.

I am currently running poly-sinc-ext2, ASDM7, DSD 256 and some HAF filters. HTOP reporting CPU’s around 75% and 65c.

jussi_laako · April 8, 2022, 5:10pm

ext2 is good, or gauss-short/gauss/gauss-long and ASDM7 is probably good, depending on your DAC.

tahsu · April 10, 2022, 3:29pm

The DAC is a Topping D90, which I upscale to SDM, the amp is a musical fidelity m6si. I was just testing thinking about power consumption, and my fanless nuc pulls less power than my ubuntu server.

dabassgoesboomboom · May 6, 2022, 1:05am

New HQPDControl update out, with the 20kHz filter added.

Roasty · May 16, 2022, 11:45am

hey guys need some help.
I’ve been using hqplayer for quite some time now… but this has me stumped.

music stopped playing suddenly.
saw that hqplayer desktop on my core pc had closed. tried to reopen the app, but nothing happened. no hqplayer startup image, no app opening.
rebooted pc. Still can’t open hqplayer desktop.
uninstalled, and then reinstalled (latest version), and still can’t open the app.

first time this has happened to me. any ideas?

jussi_laako · May 16, 2022, 2:40pm

Which OS are you using?

Roasty · May 16, 2022, 3:05pm

windows 10 pro

jussi_laako · May 16, 2022, 5:19pm

You could try resetting all settings. Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\HQPlayer folder and move out settings.xml and possibly library.xml too. Then try to restart HQPlayer again.

Roasty · May 16, 2022, 10:17pm

that did the trick! thanks for the help, Jussi!