WiiM Mini Streamer

[Bamyasi]

Are you guys seeing a issue on amazon bit rate which is inaccurate?

Yeah, or at least it's different for the same track played back via Qobuz. Not sure which one is correct or not.

 

[Music1969]

Are you guys seeing a issue on amazon bit rate which is inaccurate?

Not "inaccurate"

"Different" is better word.

I also have Apple Music and sometimes Apple, Qobuz, Tidal and Amazon have different same rates for same track/album

I used to care about which is the true digital master, but I don't care anymore

I do want to have the correct sample rate for each streaming service though which is why I love what WiiM have done with Amazon Music HD casting

 

[morillon]

Well
I waited a bit to see how the latest firmware works..
personally I haven't gained anything with the new August firmwares... and lost the essentials...
if the efforts are still and always focused on amazone and tidal,
my deezer account keeps getting lost and i go back to lossless and have to disconnect reconnect
(I of course put down a "ticket")
am i alone?

any known way to revert to older firmwares?
ps
under ios can you empty "recently played"?
in July in my case seemed to be really the thing to achieve even if it may seem like a detail..
the rest worked pretty well.. explain my little sadness...

 

[onlyoneme]

I do have multiple AP with the same SSID.
How should I set the switch?

Do you think you can face a scenario when your WiiM would like to switch to another AP on the fly? If not, you can disable fast roaming.

 

[onlyoneme]

Definitely no gapless. There is a half second gap between South Of Heaven and Silent Scream.

I can be wrong with my statement. First track is available on Amazon with 96kHz but second one is 192 kHz. I guess that gap on toslink is inevitable in such case.

 

[Brantome]

I can be wrong with my statement. First track is available on Amazon with 96kHz but second one is 192 kHz. I guess that gap on toslink is inevitable in such case.

If you limit the spdif output to 24/96, does that help (not that you would want to do that or for that to be a solution)?

 

[onlyoneme]

If you limit the spdif output to 24/96, does that help (not that you would want to do that or for that to be a solution)?

No change, still gap as the effect of switching on toslink. But there is no such switch when source material has the same sample rate for both songs.
I think there is a bug and WiiM switches toslink sample rate based on song info regardless of spdif setting.

 

[Brantome]

No change, still gap as the effect of switching on toslink. But there is no such switch when source material has the same sample rate for both songs.
I think there is a bug and WiiM switches toslink sample rate based on song info regardless of spdif setting.

if Spdif is set lower, then Amazon Music won’t (or shouldn’t) try and send the higher resolution, so the song info shouldn’t change. As you say, maybe there is a further bug wher WiiM is picking up the resolution from the original resolution rather than that which is actually being delivered.

 

[telemike]

Well
I waited a bit to see how the latest firmware works..
personally I haven't gained anything with the new August firmwares... and lost the essentials...
if the efforts are still and always focused on amazone and tidal,
my deezer account keeps getting lost and i go back to lossless and have to disconnect reconnect
(I of course put down a "ticket")
am i alone?

any known way to revert to older firmwares?
ps
under ios can you empty "recently played"?
in July in my case seemed to be really the thing to achieve even if it may seem like a detail..
the rest worked pretty well.. explain my little sadness...

Until things get fixed couldn't you use Airplay for Deezer?

 

[Jeromeof]

You could maybe raise a ticket and submit it as a feature request to be able to preset playlists from music servers

So I raised a ticket and they have now said they will add this feature on the 15th September release. Got to say, I haven't seen a team as responsive as this with their software / firmware changes, since the early days of the smartphone.

 

[imral3]

I can be wrong with my statement. First track is available on Amazon with 96kHz but second one is 192 kHz. I guess that gap on toslink is inevitable in such case.

Good catch! Anyone know why some albums have mixed sample rates between tracks?

 

[jmtocali]

Good catch! Anyone know why some albums have mixed sample rates between tracks?

It's typical of Amazon. Very weird, but many users have noticed this since the UHD release.

 

[Music1969]

It's typical of Amazon. Very weird, but many users have noticed this since the UHD release.

Its not an Amazon specific thing.

Happens on Apple Music Hi-Res too.

I've noticed on Qobuz too.

Send the angry letters to the labels

 

[Deleted member 47859]

Well
I waited a bit to see how the latest firmware works..
personally I haven't gained anything with the new August firmwares... and lost the essentials...
if the efforts are still and always focused on amazone and tidal,
my deezer account keeps getting lost and i go back to lossless and have to disconnect reconnect
(I of course put down a "ticket")
am i alone?

any known way to revert to older firmwares?
ps
under ios can you empty "recently played"?
in July in my case seemed to be really the thing to achieve even if it may seem like a detail..
the rest worked pretty well.. explain my little sadness...

You're not alone. Since you follow this thread you know that at least three other users complained about Deezer integration and WiiM even confirmed the issues (fix planned for end of September).

 

[Bamyasi]

if Spdif is set lower, then Amazon Music won’t (or shouldn’t) try and send the higher resolution, so the song info shouldn’t change. As you say, maybe there is a further bug wher WiiM is picking up the resolution from the original resolution rather than that which is actually being delivered.

Last time I tested this Amazon was sending native HiRes version of the track to the playback device which would then be downsampled (or upsampled) in the AMHD app on the device itself. No idea how the API version which WiiM uses works but it might actually do the same.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

I only have the freebie Deezer subscription, but it works quite nicely to the WiiM from LMS (piCorePlayer) via UPnP. Simple to install and configure.

I was amazed to discover that Deezer appears to use the same album/track IDs as Tidal! Playing Deezer to the WiiM, while monitoring with my WiiM UI, which queries Tidal for reviews and bios, which are totally in sync! (The bitrate isn't correct, I default to 128k when it's not provided). I may have to play with the Deezer API, which is very open and available, unlike that of most other services.

 

[Merifon]

You're not alone. Since you follow this thread you know that at least three other users complained about Deezer integration and WiiM even confirmed the issues (fix planned for end of September).

some time ago, I asked the deezer support if they could please insert the wiim among the supported devices, it could be a valid alternative to my current Tidal HiFi, with android auto it works better also and does not suffer from MQAache...
Now I don't remember their answer, I think a generic "maybe in the future".

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

Oops, looks like Deezer skips and stops on LMS, as well. Sounds like a Deezer issue, not a WiiM issue. Perhaps both are using an outdated Deezer API?

 

[morillon]

You're not alone. Since you follow this thread you know that at least three other users complained about Deezer integration and WiiM even confirmed the issues (fix planned for end of September).

but in July I was rather satisfied...
deezer and home application do not see the wiim...
but wiim home allowed me very correctly to have access to most of my needs in deezer hifi flac, where, and it is very well known, the deezer app even poses problems to pass the "hifi" even with a chromecast while planned for the "cast".
explain my interest for, in the meantime can be the end of September, return to a July firmware etc.
???
using the wiim just for the radios would be a little sad..d as much as in this case the old little chromecast (and its much lower jitter) had been quite sufficient in toslink or not...

 

[DantonIzzo]

Maybe it's just me, but a half a second gap is not that big a deal...