Using any audio source with HQPlayer - Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, Soundcloud [2023]

Got it, thanks. You mentioned that the SMSL DL300 had a firmware issue that prevented DSD Direct mode from working properly. How do I test an AKM based DAC for this issue?

Anyone know simplest way to setup just PCM44.1kHz input to feed webrowser audio (Spotify, Tidal , Apple Music) into HQPlayer on Ubuntu ?

macOS we have simple Blackhole.

Linux equivalent? I know you can setup some ALSA loopback thing? Can anyone please share
steps how to do this?

I only need PCM44.1kHz input rate

I seem to have this in my /etc/asound.conf:

pcm.loopout {
        type hw
        card Loopback
        device 0
        subdevice 0
        format S16_LE
        rate 44100
        channels 2
}

pcm.loopin {
        type hw
        card Loopback
        device 1
        subdevice 0
        format S16_LE
        rate 44100
        channels 2
}

ctl.loopout {
        type hw
        card Loopback
}

ctl.loopin {
        type hw
        card Loopback
}

And I remember that you need to ā€œmodprobe snd-aloopā€ for it to work. I have not used it in a very long time, so things may have changed since.

You can then also set it as default:

pcm.!default {
       type hw
       card "loopin"
}

ctl.!default {
       type hw
       card "loopin"
}
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I am late to the party and I am trying to setup this now but I donā€™t quite understand what to add to the hqplayerd.xml described in Step #2.

Btw, I am using Hpdp version 5 and NAA OS v5

A cool new feature now with iOS 18 and macOS 15 is iPhone screen mirroring on Mac.

So even in a HiFi room you can leave it on the HiFi rack.

Still need a Macbook on the couch to control (would be great to use an iPad to control iPhone - maybe coming).

A nice little thing possibly for Apple Music Hi-Res, Tidal iOS app users etc.

Does it also work with iPad? Sorry, I have not my home work on this featureā€¦ :sweat_smile:

Although iPhone SE would be rather inexpensive dedicated source, WiFi-only iPad Mini is rather nice too and can serve as a nice display as well.

I have iPad Mini as a controller device anybody can use in the livingroom.

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Sadly not yet. Hopefully next

Looks like there are some other limitations as well:

According to a random person on Reddit (could be real, could be fake) ā€œApple has stated that, due to the DMA, it will not be available in the EU.ā€