About half of our users with gear capable of greater than 1x, not playing MQA.
We support HQ Player because early in our lifespan, a large group of our users wanted HQ Player support. Nowadays, while that group has grown, it is a tiny minority of our overall user base.
Quite a large number I think you will find, myself being amongst that number.
Everything to dsd512.
Have you actually tried it yourself?
Personally, I find HQPlayerâs upsampling and modulators to be far superior to what Roon offersâŚ.but maybe that is just me.
Either way, it still real time up-sampling.
Yah, what Joel said⌠Whether you prefer HQ Player, no reason to store upsampled content on disk. Roon (alone or with HQ Player) can do it in realtime.
I was responding to @AceRimmer regarding their response to @jfx regarding Roonâs upsampling ability versus HQPlayerâs. In other words, a different topic than if someone should or should not upsample to disk vs. real-time.
Yup, I still have a bunch of SACD â DSD64 in WavPack 5 from years ago.
Wish Roon could play themâŚ
Voted. This would halve the size of my music folder.
I can appreciate the challenges that Danny lays out. It is not an insignificant undertaking, could slow down or complicate some processes, etc.
That said, I would really appreciate this feature. I appreciate being able to play DSF instead of having to convert to PCM but once you get into 100+ SACDs you start wishing you could compress.
While Iâm sure the average user is not playing DSF, I think youâll find many of the dedicated âpower usersâ early adopters are. Iâd much rather pay for another year of membership than buy another drive.
I, too, would like to see support for WavPack. I am very glad that Roon supports DSF and does not require me to convert to PCM, but I would like to be able to use the lossless compression that WavPack provides. Many of us would save an awful lot of hard drive space, and we would be buying and consuming fewer hard drives.
Iâve added a vote for this feature. Please be sure that you have done so, if you want to see WavPack support. Thanks.
Personally I donât care much for SACDs, but I have lots of PCM albums compressed in WavPack. Itâs rather annoying that the software I pay for canât even see them, while a freeware player like FB2k had no trouble playing that content years ago.
Please consider implementing this soon, I really donât feel like converting all this stuff again.
Iâd love to see wavpack support for Roon
While both Roon and HQPlayer can upsample in real-time, there exists other software that performs upsampling âofflineâ, and the results must be stored on disk. In my case that software is PGGB (pggb.io) and I store 24-bit/768Khz PCM files compressed in Wavpack.
I donât think that âwell then, donât use PGGB and use Roon or HQP for upsampling insteadâ is a reasonable thing (e.g. for Roon devs) to say. Clearly, I have my reasons for using PGGB offline upsampling instead of HQP real-time upsampling (for offline files, at least), just as some people have their reasons for using HQP upsampling instead of Roon upsampling.
Getting into any of those reasons would not only be off-topic, but should also not be necessary: adding support for a file format canât be some kind of mammoth task, especially a file format that many people use, and that many free softwares (such as Foobar2000) support out-of-the-box.
Of course, Foobar2000 does not do what Roon does, and I continue so far to use Roon even though it doesnât support Wavpack, but I would certainly like to see support added. This topic has my vote, but I think that âeasyâ tasks should need less votes to actually be worked on than âdifficultâ tasks. If a feature will take very little effort to implement, even if a few of your users are asking for it, why not just get it done and over with?
Currently, I installed roon for a test phase.
So far I see and tested, roon doesnât support wv compression files.
My whole music library is upsampled to 24/768k with PGGB OFFLINE (pggb.io).
If posible please implement this soon, so that I can use roon.
https://www.remastero.com/pggb.html
PGGB files upscaled to 32 bit/768 kHz definitely sound better than through the Chord M Scaler, especially since PGGB can add the EQ during processing, no headroom management required.
wavpack support would be nice, especially for .dsf files.
Support for this would be awesome.