A caveat with that though - it doesn’t support gapless AMHD playback, guess we’ll have to wait a couple of months for that…The quality is dictated by what the target device I.e. the WiiM, supports. So, for example, if I ask “Alexa, play Mr Blue Sky by ELO on Puck”, it plays at 24/192 on my WiiM Mini.
Edit: To more directly answer your query, that also works where you have the WiiM defined as preferred speaker in an Alexa smart home device group along with an Echo. Just tested that to be double sure
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The quality is dictated by what the target device I.e. the WiiM, supports. So, for example, if I ask “Alexa, play Mr Blue Sky by ELO on Puck”, it plays at 24/192 on my WiiM Mini.
Edit: To more directly answer your query, that also works where you have the WiiM defined as preferred speaker in an Alexa smart home device group along with an Echo. Just tested that to be double sure
It becomes even more interesting if that's the case, I'm currently not on the Beta release so if I'm using the Amazon App to cast a playlist (called "Good") it won't be done as UHD (at the moment) but if I say Alexa play playlist "Good" and the WiiM's the speaker it will play it as UHD .... if I've understood that correctly?
Sorry, it’s probably because I’m on the beta that it supports that at the moment, but as the general release of AMHD casting is under two weeks away, you won’t have long to wait... Sorry again for the confusion
Are you able to get gapless and replaygain working for streaming local files from the Wiim to PiCorePlayer?
Use the feedback section the the Wiim app, or email WiiM support with your MAC address, to be asked to be added to the whitelist to get access to the beta firmware.
No, it doesn’t include the 10 band EQ as that would need a beta version of the app and I haven’t seen them offering such.
WiiM is a player just like pCP. But if you've meant gapless streaming from LMS to WiiM it's only possible with squeeze2upnp in "flow" mode at the moment.
Or if you've meant a WiiM app it's dedicated to WiiM Mini only.
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Interesting review here but I think it underplays Amazon Music HD support, particularly its casting from the amazon music app, with some interesting footnotes about the Pro version
www.techhive.com
WiiM Mini music streamer review: Audiophile quality for just $99
Connect this tiny puck to your favorite amp or powered speakers and stream Hi-Res music anywhere in your home for a song.
www.techhive.com
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...off to check under the couch cushions for spare change...
The review says “ In late May, bit-perfect Airplay 2 arrived at CD quality”. My understanding is Airplay 2 compresses streams to the Wim Mini and only works at lossless quality if streaming to an Airport Express ( original) device.Interesting review here but I think it underplays Amazon Music HD support, particularly its casting from the amazon music app, with some interesting footnotes about the Pro version
WiiM Mini music streamer review: Audiophile quality for just $99
Connect this tiny puck to your favorite amp or powered speakers and stream Hi-Res music anywhere in your home for a song.
Maybe I'm with Amir on this thing, but when it gets Roon and an Ethernet connection (Pro?) my Bluesound stuff may go to eBay. The Pulse Mini I got my wife for he birthday may have to stay, she likes the portability and Qobuz Duo account. I don't understand why those guys don't update their UI more often as there are many upset customers on BS Topics site.
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Apologies if this has been answered. Have an arcam sa20 coming that uses optical to access the dac, I'm using Qobuz through Audirvana. Is it possible to utilize Audirvana/Qobuz using the Wiim?
If so, what is the procedure? Much appreciated.
If so, what is the procedure? Much appreciated.
I use Qobuz, but not Audirvana.
This is a review published about that:
Despite online reports of many happy users employing the WiiM Mini as a DLNA network player, it didn’t perform reliably in my main audio system, where I use Audirvana playback software and its remote-control app with a Mac Mini. Initially, music sputtered relentlessly. A WiiM Mini firmware update resolved that.
But then music might play for an hour or two before stopping. Finally, I contacted WiiM’s excellent tech support, which typically responds within a day or two. I had waited far too long. After the WiiM team analyzed my Audirvana logs, the Audirvana-Qobuz combination played without stopping in a 10-hour test.
“We’re checking the Qobuz-on-Audirvana and hope we can improve the experience,” says Zhao. “I know many audiophiles are using this software, so it’s important to have a good compatibility.”
So, it seems to be ok.
Works with both.
It doesn’t seem to in my case.
I had no issues when I was using the optical out of my Wiim to my DAC via Roon.
But I’m now using the aux output directly into active speakers and getting an audible (albeit low level) glitch after every track.
It doesn’t drive me crazy, but it does bug me enough to ponder adding a DAC.
I had no issues when I was using the optical out of my Wiim to my DAC via Roon.
But I’m now using the aux output directly into active speakers and getting an audible (albeit low level) glitch after every track.
It doesn’t drive me crazy, but it does bug me enough to ponder adding a DAC.
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That seems to be an awful lot of complexity to ask from a $89 dollar streamer....
Just use the Wiim app.
If you use the feedback section in the WiiM app, they’ll look at fixing it I’m sure. What music service are you using?
It still says 10 band, which was part of the description for the planned parametric equalizer, so I bet that the parametric eq is still coming. I hope so because if it does I can eliminate the minidsp 2x4 HD that I am using for eq.
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Compared to full MQA unfold on my topping e50 over usb using pass through Mqa ,to optical from WiiM mini is a downgrade at this point in time. till they support mqa pass through which still does not work. Also over optical to e50 I can only get 24 bit 96 KHz and not 192 which e50 is capable of ,so a bit underwhelming but ok for the convenience of tidal connect. In all ok but not as awesome as e50 over usb that’s not possible with WiiM over optical my 2cw but I might say equal to volumio usb with tidal connect on raspi4b
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