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malkit · 17-05-2020, 18:31

(17-05-2020 18:04)simoncn Wrote: A lot has changed since 2.3 and you can now take advantage of dark mode for the display and an improved disk formatting scheme. I think there have also been some sound quality improvements.

The instructions on this page suggest using aac:L16 or aac:wav if the AAC stream doesn't play. Perhaps you were looking at the page for Naim streamers, which does say you should use *:L16 (actually, this is wrong; with the current sample playlist files, it should be aac:L16).

If you want to transcode to PCM with your Melco, I suggest you try aac:wav or aac:wav24. In my experience, this improves the sound. Are you using the Melco USB-DAC as a renderer or just using the Melco as a server?

For recording, you need to use the stream ID. In the sample playlist for MPEG-DASH, Radio 3 has a stream ID of R3 (this is not case-sensitive).

Weekly recording is much more complicated than daily recording, with the need to specify days of the week, presumably with different time periods for each day. This would require a different user interface than the current text field.

I can't find any post from me in the previous thread from 2016 saying that the LUMIN app is the best control point app for iOS. I haven't (unfortunately) found any control point apps for iOS that I would recommend. The LUMIN app has its good and bad points, as do a few others. A lot of people like the LUMIN app but I don't use it myself. On Android, BubbleUPnP and Hi-Fi Cast are the best that I have used.

Thanks for the rapid reply Simon!
I was wondering about possible sq improvements but thought it may have been my imagination, I wonder how this was achieved?
I am using the Melco as a renderer, sorry I should have mentioned this in my post connected via usb to chord hugo TT2.
So if I'm leaving the stream.transcode field blank the dac is doing all the work with the Melco just passing the stream through in it's original native format correct ?
So the format of MPEG-DASH is still aac correct ? sorry if this is a stupid question but it's completely new to me.
I apologise for putting words in your mouth re the lumin app nothing was intended just a result of my vague failing memory!
Kind regards,
Matthew