Both HQPlayer Desktop and HQPlayer Client listen for standard multimedia key presses. On macOS, Apple Music tends to steal these and launch itself instead of passing those to the application. So there are some alternative key presses available as well. There are many different “USB HID” remote controls on the market, where you have a small wireless USB receiver dongle and then a more or less traditional remote control.
I just recently ordered bunch of different such remote controls, I will return to this topic once I’ve tested those.
In the old days, Mac Mini had IR receiver and Apple remote control, and on BootCamp Windows that remote control worked fine with HQPlayer as well.
I have just tried the new lease of HQP Desktop 5.5 (with Pi4 HQP NAA 4.6), I can see Mac’s sound input “Plackback Inactive” and can play from my Music app via HQP NAA to my Dac, however, the auto sampling rate does not work, it just stick the source as 44.1 … even the Music app source is 192kHz.
After updating to 5.5, HQPlayer just stopped playing everytime the rate would change. No errors in the bottom bar. Luckily I had 5.3.2 version somewhere in my Downloads folder so I could downgrade.
Have been dealing with HQP Desktop 5.5 and HQP NAA 5 (with Pi4) , at first I could see the NAA5 show up as one of the Inputs, however, I could not to make it play , as the “Playback Inactive” did not show up on Output (no issue for NAA 4.6), and I realised that I should edit the config.txt as I did for 4.6.
After the edit, it successfully showed up on Mac’s output (Playback Inactive), and also manages to play, however the automatic rate switching does not work, and I have to open the Lossless Switcher to make the sample rate change according to the source.
Am I right that the latest version of HQP Desktop / NAA still need to work with Lossless Switcher app for automatic rate switching, or did I do something wrong ?
Did you select the “USB Audio Class (RPi4)” as input device?
Apple Music on macOS doesn’t support rate switching without LosslessSwitcher, because the Apple Music application on macOS uses CoreAudio in shared mode and thus it goes through the CoreAudio rate conversion, volume control and mixer always.
You can try for example with Qobuz application on macOS if you set Qobuz to use exclusive mode.
According to screenshot and log, the playlist/playback queue is empty.
If your NAA is regular RPi4, it’s name should have been changed as result of update, so the output device setting needs to be updated. Be it input or output.
Now with NAA v5 and HQPlayer >= 5.5.0 you can use single RPi4 for both input and output at the same time.
Default config.txt is something that will work out of the box with Holo Red for example. To use RPi4 as a USB input, you need to edit config.txt every time you flash the image to a card. No other changes needed.
One of my Input NAA has also S/PDIF digital inputs and I need to also add the correct overlays accordingly.
