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GioF71 / tidal-connect

Simple script for configuring Tidal Connect with Docker (also on Volumio, moOde, OSMC)
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Coreelec/tidal-connect Hi-Res/MQA bad streaming to SPDIF out #72

Closed looun closed 6 months ago

looun commented 7 months ago

hello, after some trouble i have successful run docker tidal-connect on amlogic box(Ki pro) with Coreelec ;) ...very nice

When i playback the hi-fi(44.1k/16bit) track it's work fine SPDIF out to my external DAC loxjie D30, without any issues. when i playback Hi-Res/MQA playback very bad with lot of noise,interruption.

I have force also: --codec-mqa true --enable-mqa-passthrough true

When i playback with kodi addon or Mconnect/UPnp there are not issues, but i prefer tidal-connect ;) Thanks.

looun commented 7 months ago

yes, right.

GioF71 commented 7 months ago

Hello, I could use that legacy version of CoreELEC on my box and also could make Tidal Connect work. Librespot as well, and also SqueezeLite but only max 16bit. Kodi works beautifully even in 4k, I don't know if it can play 4k streams successfully though, I will test it. Not the most pleasant experience because audio support is limited. The virtual fs /proc/asound is incomplete, lots of packages are missing... I fully understood your difficulties with Tidal Connect and why you opened the issue!

LibreELEC (latest version) also worked, but Kodi wouldn't work in 4k as well as CoreELEC did. Also no way to run Tidal Connect, the container just hangs. Didn't take much time to try and configure the other containers I use considering how bad Kodi was. Worst of the three for my objectives.

With Armbian (bookworm), all the audio containers work up to 24/192, except for Tidal Connect which only apparently works, but has issues with emulation which result in bad audio quality all-around. With Tidal Connect turned off everything works perfectly audio-wise. Kodi is software only so awfully slow.

I believe Armbian solution, when CoreELEC becomes too old for the bundled kodi version, might be the endgame for this box. At least as a audio-only player, it can do something good.

looun commented 7 months ago

CoreELEC is more optimized for amlogic box.

with CoreELEC i suggest you also to try TIDAL 2 addon + d Add-on Artist Slideshow on MQ9/8 skin...very very beautiful interface.

GioF71 commented 7 months ago

Hello, how did you install inputstream.ffmpegdirect in coreelec?

looun commented 7 months ago

some addon need mandatory other to work. inputstream.ffmpegdirect is for playback stream video and audio from web.

GioF71 commented 7 months ago

Tried it... it works @192kHz. No gapless support though

GioF71 commented 6 months ago

Hello @looun, can we close this ticket? If there are outstanding issue, you can open another. Thank you