audiophile_gal
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Holy smokes! I appreciate all of the rapid responses - I was not expecting this many helpful replies. Thank you all!
I should clarify that the end goal is to have these be headless Pi4 players. I used the Desktop version of Raspberry Pi OS because I am lazy and didn't want to run into issues remoting in with SSH.
Roon is much more expensive than Plex and does not have the capability to stream over WAN nor does it help organize my significant collection of movies and TV shows. Just can't justify the cost with these considerations.
Both look intriguing but it looks like they do not support other repositories (where Plex Media Player would be sourced from). Maybe I am missing something?
Ah so it's Pulse Audio that does the mixing. This reddit post indicates that you can disable resampling - would this mean that Pulse Audio is not doing anything to the audio stream other than directing it to the ALSA driver? Linux does not handle audio intuitively....
I should clarify that the end goal is to have these be headless Pi4 players. I used the Desktop version of Raspberry Pi OS because I am lazy and didn't want to run into issues remoting in with SSH.
To get Tidal on RPi, very easy.
https://github.com/shawaj/HiTide
As for Roon too expensive...I used to think like you. Why spends money when you already have Tidal? Well, after trying it I'm hooked. It lets me explore other artists (it automatically play songs with same genre for you) and has its own EQ. Do I have to have it? No. Does it nice to have? YES.
Roon is much more expensive than Plex and does not have the capability to stream over WAN nor does it help organize my significant collection of movies and TV shows. Just can't justify the cost with these considerations.
https://gentooplayer.com/
(MPD, myMPD, Minimserver, Squeezelite(R2), LMS, Roon, Spotify Connect, upmpdcli, bubbleupnp and many more. Also great support from the dev)
https://archphile.org/ (as spartan as it gets..)
Both look intriguing but it looks like they do not support other repositories (where Plex Media Player would be sourced from). Maybe I am missing something?
I'm using mpd with ALSA output to a USB DAC and there's no resampling going on. The config is pretty simple. However, my music player has no desktop OS and that may be your problem.
Just a guess but it may come with Pulse Audio setup to mix audio from the various possible desktop apps.
Ah so it's Pulse Audio that does the mixing. This reddit post indicates that you can disable resampling - would this mean that Pulse Audio is not doing anything to the audio stream other than directing it to the ALSA driver? Linux does not handle audio intuitively....

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