WiiM Mini Streamer

[eLicky]

The beta isn't automatically installed. That's why it is a beta. Better inform at the WIIM forum https://wiim.community.forum/

Seems they might have fixed the issue I was having.

TIDAL MQA unfolding coming to WiiM Mini ?

I see MQA unfolding is now available in Beta. With a WiiM Mini. As Devialet has no MQA abilities should users select decoder and renderer? thanks! ~P You should select no MQA support if your DAC cannot help with MQA unfold at all.

wiim.community.forum

On the Wiim app on my phone it says MQA beta, but I understand there is a white list you must join to get the recent fix mentioned in the link above.

 

[onlyoneme]

Seems they might have fixed the issue I was having.

TIDAL MQA unfolding coming to WiiM Mini ?

I see MQA unfolding is now available in Beta. With a WiiM Mini. As Devialet has no MQA abilities should users select decoder and renderer? thanks! ~P You should select no MQA support if your DAC cannot help with MQA unfold at all.

wiim.community.forum

On the Wiim app on my phone it says MQA beta, but I understand there is a white list you must join to get the recent fix mentioned in the link above.

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Yes. It's not about function being in beta stage, it's about a beta firmware. You have to ask WiiM for it to become whitelisted with the MAC of your Mini.

 

[JasonC331]

Ok, I know this makes no sense whatsoever but it fixed my not being able to get anything higher than 44.1, Go over to the Amazon Alexa settings and turn it on, or off then back on. No issues with my 2 Devices ( Downstairs going into an Anthem with no MQA support) and One Topping E50 with just render support. No issues. Hopefully, this works for some of you, but I don't even have Amazon Music and this made it work.

 

[Merifon]

Ok, I know this makes no sense whatsoever but it fixed my not being able to get anything higher than 44.1, Go over to the Amazon Alexa settings and turn it on, or off then back on. No issues with my 2 Devices ( Downstairs going into an Anthem with no MQA support) and One Topping E50 with just render support. No issues. Hopefully, this works for some of you, but I don't even have Amazon Music and this made it work.

I think there is a further Amazon music hd setting to be enabled. You reach it by selecting Amazon in the wiim app browse, then select settings and enable UHD.

 

[onlyoneme]

EQ mode is still broken and distorted even in flat with 437348 if someone's interested.

 

[jevchance]

Fair enough appraisal, but since he’s not a subscriber, it underplays its support of Amazon Music HD and its world-first capability to support casting from the Amazon Music app which appeared to be the main driver for a lot of users here

To be clear, it is not the world-first to support casting from the Amazon Music app. However, it might be the first to support casting at up to 24/192.

 

[Brantome]

To be clear, it is not the world-first to support casting from the Amazon Music app. However, it might be the first to support casting at up to 24/192.

Which other devices (echos aside) support HD casting from the amazon music app?

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[keiron99]

Sorry for the unsophisticated nature of this question....I see that Wiim are proposing that a "Parametric EQ" will be included in a future update. What exactly is that? How does it differ from the equaliser already in there?

(As an aside, I don't seem to get on with the EQ as it is: when I boost the bass, which I do for my headphones, it seems a little unnatural/distorted. For this reason, I got a cheapo headphone amp with it's own, old-fashioned tone controls. Maybe it's just my imagination...?)

 

[onlyoneme]

Sorry for the unsophisticated nature of this question....I see that Wiim are proposing that a "Parametric EQ" will be included in a future update. What exactly is that? How does it differ from the equaliser already in there?

(As an aside, I don't seem to get on with the EQ as it is: when I boost the bass, which I do for my headphones, it seems a little unnatural/distorted. For this reason, I got a cheapo headphone amp with it's own, old-fashioned tone controls. Maybe it's just my imagination...?)

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No imagination, EQ is just broken for current FW and can distort the sound heavily for high level signals.

 

[onlyoneme]

New update available, 4.6.437454.

 

[Merifon]

New update available, 4.6.437454.

always a step ahead...

 

[onlyoneme]

always a step ahead...

No worries, release notes look the same as with the previous update.

 

[jevchance]

Which other devices (echos aside) support HD casting from the amazon music app?

All HEOS/Denon/Marantz devices.

Pretty much any smart speaker that supports Alexa.

I think SONOS can but I don't have one to verify.

Chromecast devices.

Any Amazon TV device.

Sorry, I realize this is off-topic, but just wanted to clarify the point.

 

[Bamyasi]

All HEOS/Denon/Marantz devices.

HEOS does not support HD/UHD casting, only playback from their own app on the AVR/amp. At least I was unable to find any hard evidence that it is possible to do (e.g., with some magic Alexa skill).

Pretty much any smart speaker that supports Alexa.

Alexa does not support HD/UHD casting on any device other than WiiM Mini. In fact, it does not support lossless casting at all on other devices.

I think SONOS can but I don't have one to verify.

SONOS supports HD (16/44.1) playback via their own app but not casting from other apps (e.g. Amazon Music app).

Chromecast devices.

None of Chromecast or Chromecast Audio devices supported HD/UHD (lossless) casting until recently. There are some rumors that they might enable it in the future but not yet.

Any Amazon TV device.

Only resampled to a fixed HD rate (16/48).

Sorry, I realize this is off-topic, but just wanted to clarify the point.

Streaming from a device using its own app vs casting from another app on your phone are two different things. It is indeed very confusing.

 

[jevchance]

HEOS does not support HD/UHD casting, only playback from their own app on the AVR/amp. At least I was unable to find any hard evidence that it is possible to do (e.g., with some magic Alexa skill).

Apparently you missed the link in my post, where I provide the hard evidence. Here it is again:

Again, this is HD streaming, not UHD, as was referenced in the entire exchange, which circles back to my statement "it might be the first to support casting at up to 24/192".

 

[jevchance]

HEOS does not support HD/UHD casting, only playback from their own app on the AVR/amp. At least I was unable to find any hard evidence that it is possible to do (e.g., with some magic Alexa skill).

Here is Amazon Music casting to a Denon HEOS Link HS2, again at CD quality:

 

[jevchance]

None of Chromecast or Chromecast Audio devices supported HD/UHD (lossless) casting until recently. There are some rumors that they might enable it in the future but not yet.

The statement I was responding to was this:

Fair enough appraisal, but since he’s not a subscriber, it underplays its support of Amazon Music HD and its world-first capability to support casting from the Amazon Music app which appeared to be the main driver for a lot of users here

In response, my statement was this:

To be clear, it is not the world-first to support casting from the Amazon Music app. However, it might be the first to support casting at up to 24/192.

And to further support that you can cast to Chromecast from the Amazon Music app, here your hard proof:

On Chromecast I was only able to obtain SD quality, but again the original assertion was that the WIIM Mini was world-first to support casting, which is false.

I'm not able to obtain the hard proof on a Sonos device as I don't have one, but the skill is there so I can only assume it is supported and likely at HD quality, same as HEOS.

 

[jevchance]

Any Amazon TV device.

It would seem I was incorrect on this point. I had read somewhere you can do it, but according to Amazon it is not supported and I also could not get it to work.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

Latest firmware update did not fix distortion issue when EQ is on.