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WiiM Mini Streamer
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Thanks, hadn’t noticed that before, nor have I seen any sign in the app. Drop WiiM a line via the feedback section in the app and see if they can shed a light on thisTechnology - WiiM Mini - WiiM
wiimhome.com
Scroll down to the Adaptive EQ section.
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Just fired up my old Tidal account to see how things are these days.
I hate MQA and still have hope it disappears from Tidal.
But the Tida iPadl app plus Tidal Connect to WiiM Mini is wonderful - and proper gapless playback.
Just check out track credits inside the Tidal app and how they link. Don't need Roon (and I have a lifetime Roon).
Only downsides to me:
- MQA
- Bitrate not shown in WiiM Home
- Atmos is forced on mobile app - how stupid is this - no option to change default behaviour
I hate MQA and still have hope it disappears from Tidal.
But the Tida iPadl app plus Tidal Connect to WiiM Mini is wonderful - and proper gapless playback.
Just check out track credits inside the Tidal app and how they link. Don't need Roon (and I have a lifetime Roon).
Only downsides to me:
- MQA
- Bitrate not shown in WiiM Home
- Atmos is forced on mobile app - how stupid is this - no option to change default behaviour
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Wouldn't Qobuz could solve some of your issues?
What happens when you use Tidal iOS app and play an Atmos album to the WiiM via Tidal Connect?
Say this example below.
Can you choose to not play the Atmos version?
I suppose you mean to the stream started from Tidal itself, i was shure that all services have bitrate tag if started from wiim app only (android). The use of Tidal from wiim app, quite lacks all the feature that give it a good user exp, this is the problem.
Me too hate MQA but with 44.1 limited Tidal hifi, generally no problem with the tracks not master badged and to be honest, whilst I easy find the best quality versus Spotify, I have to pay much much more attention to say for example, that all hires qobuz tracks sound better... Nevertheless is not understandable why they pay for such useless if not harmful overprocessing.
Casting from Amazon iOS app shows bitrate.. I've been using this for weeks (Amazon UHD beta casting).
And personally, I've got no interest in using Wiim Home app. I'm only interested in Casting / Connect style playback, from official streaming service apps.
Nice to know, I dropped subscriptions before last updates of wiim and the trial capped version of qobuz, nor Amazon music prime, show bitrate.
As soon regular Fw will permits lossless from Amazon, I'll do another test.
That's a bit like comparing apples to oranges really. If I was going with a full screen client I'd have to go with foobar as there are a load of beautiful skins for that.
I had thought the mobile version of that skin wouldn't look that good, but I'd say that whilst it's 95% the same as BubbleUPnP there are a few formatting tweaks I prefer - but I suppose some of that is just down to using HTML (and maybe because it only targets a single backend).
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Sorry, don't use Atmos. I'm a stereo man (even a mono man, for old recordings, but never multichannel).
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Sorry, don't use Atmos. I'm a stereo man (even a mono man, for old recordings, but never multichannel).
Except when the recording is multichannel?
For me the main benefit of a format like SACD is the multichannel part and that really sounds so much better than stereo when well done. Music in stereo format I play as stereo as I personally don't find the upmixing in my 5.2 setup to sound that good.
Well the point I was making is it looks like there is no choice to selectSorry, don't use Atmos. I'm a stereo man (even a mono man, for old recordings, but never multichannel).
And if you look around the Tidal app, there is a tonne of Atmos. And growing fast.
Hence why I asked you to test that track and see if you could play non-Atmos
Not interested at all in multichannel recordings.Except when the recording is multichannel?
For me the main benefit of a format like SACD is the multichannel part and that really sounds so much better than stereo when well done. Music in stereo format I play as stereo as I personally don't find the upmixing in my 5.2 setup to sound that good.
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Not sure if I understand your purpose here, hope is what I describe below.Well the point I was making is it looks like there is no choice to select
And if you look around the Tidal app, there is a tonne of Atmos. And growing fast.
Hence why I asked you to test that track and see if you could play non-Atmos
I have searched in Tidal for "Surface" by Olafur Arnalds,.
I can choose either the Master version, or the HiFi version or the ATMOS version.
In the three cases, I can use Tidal Connect to the Wiim Mini, and it does, but the ATMOS one is not working, it's waiting for ever to start reproducing.
When I do the same thing with Tidal Connect and a Bluesound Node 2i, Master and Hifi work the same than for Wiim. However, the ATMOS version is changed automatically to Hifi, and then works as such.
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Why would you care that Atmos is not working for you in your stereo setup as long as you get the correct stereo stream? Assuming you don't mean Atmos mono to stereo upmixing.
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