To start, we must install MPD and to control it through a graphical interface we will use Sonata: In this way we avoid an unnecessary security risk (more than one paranoid will thank me □).Īfter following many guides and reneging more than once to configure it, I took on the task of creating a script to facilitate the configuration of this great program so that it is a little more user-friendly: here it is.Ĭlarification: the guide (and the script) are made for debian or derived distros, but broadly speaking it should be useful to anyone, taking into account the particularities of each distribution. Today I am going to explain to you how to prevent MPD from running as a service and instead starting when we log in with the privileges of our user. What it does is index our music library at an impressive speed and make it available to us so that we can listen to it both from the PC where it is installed, and through the network.įor this there are different clients, which are available not only for Linux, but also for Android, and even for Windows.ĭespite being extremely versatile, the relative complexity of its configuration tends to scare more than one. *Footnote #1: Based on the assumption that anything other than a bit-perfect stream would not illuminate the MQA authentication light.MPD (or Music Player Daemon) is an audio player designed to run as a system service (hence the daemon), with a client-server type architecture, which starts together with the computer independently of the graphical interface. This post is merely a heads-up that Tidal’s bit-perfect game is afoot. Neither do we know if Tidal plans to introduce bit-perfect playback to Android TV OS. Nor do we know when (or if) Qobuz or Apple Music will follow suit. There is no word yet on how far this Tidal app update has travelled, to which devices or how long users can expect to wait to get their fill. Isn’t this exactly why some are so determined to make hi-res audio work in their system? ![]() Whether this fare-thee-well makes an obvious audible difference to CD-quality audio remains debatable but sweating the small stuff is all part of the hifi game for many enthusiasts. Tidal’s bit-perfect app also means that CD-quality audio leaves the Android phone’s USB socket at 44.1kHz. Of course, today’s story isn’t only about hi-res audio. Or perhaps this wrinkle is specific to the LG V40 because cutting over to an Essential PH-1 smartphone (RIP), we do get asked if we want to allow Tidal access to the DragonFly DAC and we do see its LED glow purple when we punch in a track from Tidal’s Masters. Perhaps the interceding DragonTail USB-C to USB-A adapter causes the Tidal app not to properly identify the Cobalt? Tidal doesn’t even pop-up to ask if we want to allow it access to the Cobalt. Tidal’s bit-perfect playback also works with the LG V40 and the THX Onyx but – oddly – not the AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt. Clicking OK and punching in an MQA stream has the HELM Bolt DAC’s LED turn purple (where previously it remained blue) for visual confirmation that the 48kHz (or 44.1kHz) stream has travelled from Tidal app to Bolt without the Android OS running interference so that the DAC can unfold at will. We know this because “Allow Tidal to access HELM MQA?” pops up on this commentator’s LG V40 (RIP) when the HELM Bolt is connected. The Norwegian-based streaming service has begun rolling out an update to its Android app that allows it to communicate bit-perfectly with any connected USB DAC, thus sidestepping the host OS’s resampling code. Seeing this problem and (finally) tackling it head-on is Tidal. UAPP integrates Tidal and Qobuz but unlike Qobuz and Tidal’s native apps, it doesn’t accommodate offline content. One common workaround is the third-party music player app USB Audio Player Pro (UAPP) that loads in its own USB driver to talk directly to the connected USB DAC, thus avoiding Android’s resampling engine. In digital audiophile parlance, this means Android OS is not ‘bit-perfect’ with USB DACs. Android’s resampling even recooks CD-quality (44.1kHz) streams, upsampling them to 48kHz. ![]() A 48kHz stream isn’t passed through untouched but (instead) resampled to 48kHz. A 192kHz stream will be downsampled to 48kHz. Android smartphone users seeking to board the hi-res audio train via Tidal, Qobuz or Apple Music must mind the gap: Android OS resamples digital audio heading out of its USB port to 48kHz.
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