RoPieeeXL: HQPlayer NAA interferes with Airplay/Shairport output

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@terzinator

yep, done that plenty. It’s easy for me, but for family members to remote into the mac that’s running hqplayer, not so much.

Yeh agreed for HQP Desktop. That’s why you need Embedded ! Can be done by family from a phone/tablet web browser

@terzinator

in any case, I picked up another Pi for airplay/spotify. $100 and no additional tech support needed. (I’m sure I could find a different use for it, but it’s fine for now.)

Good to see you found a solution.

But does that mean you need to unplug/replug USB connection when switching from NAA to Airplay/Spotify?

A more elegant solution is to pipe Airplay and Spotify through HQPlayer itself…

Here I am piping an optical source (in this case bit perfect casting Amazon Music HD to WiiM Mini) into HQPlayer. This optical source could be anything. WiiM Mini supports Airplay2 and Spotify Connect.

Using any audio source with HQPlayer - Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, Soundcloud

This is where using the RME ADI-2 for HQPlayer “input” really really shines. Look closely at this pic. I am ‘casting’ from Amazon Music HD app to WiiM Mini streamer which has optical output to my ADI-2. You can see there are no cables attached to iPhone and incoming sample rate on my ADI-2 is 96kHz (correct for this album). Auto sample rate switching works perfectly. I can even just talk to my Echo Dot and Amazon Music UHD goes out of WiiM Mini, then through HQPlayer and then room corrected…