Hi Jussi, I sent you an email last night and thought I would follow up in this thread. I have had HQ Player for many years and it works great for me. I upgraded to HQ Player last year. Now, the mini-PC that I had installed HQ Player on had to be re-imaged and I lost everything on my drive, including HQ Player AND the download for the install. Stupidly, I had no backup and can’t locate the original email with the license on it. How can I retrieve the license ID, so I can reinstall? Help an old man out, please? Thanks.
Never mind. I found the original email.
I am new to HQPlayer evaluating it now and close to buying it. The SQ with correctly selected filters is the best I have heard on a digital player.
Important question for me is what happens if I change platforms? If I buy license for Windows, can I transfer it to Linux? Or I should decide on my final platform first and buy the license later.
If you buy the Desktop edition then you can move the licence file between Windows and Mac which I have done and possibly Linux as well, which I have not tried.
If you go for embedded then you need to generate a new key from Jussi I believe
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Thanks, It would weird if Linux was any different
It’s only that I never tried it on Linux, but I would expect desktop to work the same across all Desktop versions
Desktop license covers Desktop product on all supported platforms. So it’s the same on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Got a problem that just came up tonight. Running Roon with min-PC, USB, with HQ Player, Windows 11, Topping D90SE. Using HQP for DSD. Had a Windows 11 update tonight. After it restarted, Roon won’t play files through the HQPlayer zone, although it did just a short time ago. The song just “sits there”, no advancement and there is no sound from the speakers. I can play regular PCM files through Roon the ASIO zone, with no problem. To my limited brain, it looks like Roon is not communicating with HQ Player now. Any ideas?
I don’t have windows, but just for curiosity remove and add hqplayer audio zone in roon and see if that fixes it.
Are you now able to see HQplayer on your audio zone?
I can see HQ Player as one of my audio zones, the problem is when I select it, I get no sound and the song bar on the bottom does not advance. Here are my HQP settings, which I should have had
on my previous post.
Do you have the network control button active. It doesn’t look like it from your screenshot. It should be like…
Checked to make sure that button was active and it is, but still no sound. I am getting an error message on the bottom of HQP, like “#WASAPI virtual format…”. Do not remember seeing that before.
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I think you output should be as this
Input as this
And download latest windows 11 Drivers
https://www.toppingaudio.com/download/v5-72-qu-dong-gua-pei-jue-da-duo-shu-toppingde-dacchan-pin
I just forgot I have a dual boot with Windows 11 and Ubuntu.
Here is my input:
Here is my output (using naa instead of ASIO like you)
Device in your case is your DAC
I think you’ve turned it opposite ways.
The input should be Wasapi and default audio device (here it can be ASIO driver too, or some sort of network adapter if the playback source ie is on a different IP.
The output should be the renderer, what it may be. It used to say NAA and a number fpr me, followed by the DAC connected.
Just of now it changed to Gustard AH90 renderer, as it is both renderer and DAC built together.
In case I am missing something, the input should be blank and the output should be your DAC. This is if Roon and HQP are on the same computer and you are going from the computer to your DAC via USB. Perhaps I am not seeing something in your signal path.
Okay, I did have it backwards, I guess. I changed my inputs and outputs and am good. Thanks for the help!
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Now the darn HQP stopped working again on mySurface. After I think two updates, neither HQP desktop, nor the Client opens. Just the ring for a few seconds and then nothing. Know what happened?
I really use specifically the Client, but also HQP Desktop for changing setting in my listening room (remote operation of HQP). Furthermore HQP is unable to play to Audalytic renderer if the source rate is 48, 96 or 192 in Direct DSD, DSD256 mode, 44.1 x 256 set.
44.1 and multiples thereof is OK. Check the pics for my settings. I have done the best I know how to keep the output rate to the renderer according to its limitations of 44,1 multiples rate, and still play all sources irrespective of rate.
If I suspect anything, it is that the playback PC is not capable of playing 48 source rates while forcing 44.1 multiples output? Tomorrow I will try other filters. But it will not be to my satisfaction that my I9-14900K is not capable to do IIR2, if the even 48-96-192 source rates get forced to odd output rates 44.1 x 256. Very much of what I listen is now starting to ONLY be available in those rates. Hope there will be some way to include GPU math power and hopefully not HQP 6.
After these trials a few days, I will send my AH-90 to you. I got your address, but will post you in due time. Happy if you can sort out the above. I am a sucker for HQP playback using Client. It is the best, but do not ask why it excel over Roon. Beats me.
Well, it does work, but only PCM. Continued from my post a few comments above. No matter what settings I use, I either get PCM or I get DSD that doesn’t play through Roon. I will play with it for a while. Does anyone have a Topping D90SE that could share the DSD settings? Miska, is there anything you recommend?
Changed my settings - I get PCM, but not DSD
Sorry, meant “Jussi”, not Miska