![]() ![]() The method I described has come from following Jussi’s approved and supported recommendations. You can try it right now to confirm to yourself - try to connect RPi USB output to your computer with Type A to Type A and see if you can get anything. Don’t ask me why because I don’t know the technical reason I but asked the same question early to Jussi too. Perhaps this is a very silly question, but without them I do not learn. Why would not a cable networked Raspberry’s USB output (RopieeeXL) be suitable to feed my HQPlayer computer with music bitstream to an USB port? Computers cannot talk to eachother over a USB cable? What do you think about this solution? Won’t need to go further than a Spotify Connect certified end point like RopieeeXL and USB out as it would have been to a DAC normally, but instead to the HGQ computer? Need to replace the psu shortly though, those switch mode piece of ****, is banned from all mains connections on the hifigear fuse. This tiny computer can be located as my Roon ROCK Intel NUC, using Velcro on the back of my TV. What puzzles though is to find an USB cable with same connector in both ends? Does those exist? You don’t need to answer, I will have to look up myself. That would not be as beneficial as LAN for Roon to HQP, so it would not replace the IP connection for Roon, but maybe would do just great for Spotify? I don’t need a toslink, because when playing from Spotify, the Allo connects to my account, using the tablet just as a remote over W-LAN. But as I mentioned in first post, Deezer/Spotify/Apple Music/Soundcloud all use same sample rate anyway (PCM 16 bit / 44.1 if I am able to locate one of the numerous Raspberries I have laying around here or in the workshop… or I have a mini computer built actually on a Allo Sparky, with an Allo clean USB HAT that I probably could run with RopieeeXL, whick in turn also incorpartes Spotify Connect service on top of the Roon connectability. I mentioned in first post, this method doesn’t support automatic sample rate switching. This sends any TOSlink source across the house over ethernet cable. This is what I do for HQP endpoints around the house. And for the listening room only have a low powered HQPlayer NAA (endpoint) inside the listening room.Īs long as both rooms have ethernet cable between them. You could actually move the Roon Core and HQPe server to your other PC room and put all those together. None of the above devices add any acoustic noise to the room, they’re all fanless. On your HQP browser page you see the page called ‘Input’. The miniDSP TOSlink input doesn’t know or care what type of streamer it’s connected to, so any TOSlink source works the same. ![]() So it goes (as an example):Īirplay 2 (Spotify/Apple Music/Deezer/whatever) to Airport Express → TOSlink → miniDSP USBStreamer → USB → HQPe server I use an Airport Express (Airplay 2 - not technically Spotify Connect but doesn’t matter). There’s heaps out there at different prices. This is used for Toslink INPUT and USB OUTPUT - connecting to any USB port (type A) of your HQPe server.Ī Spotify Connect TOSlink source could be a cheap Chromecast Audio device or a Bluesound Node 2i or a Sonos Connect. If you buy a miniDSP USBStreamer and any Spotify Connect device with TOSlink output, then you can play Spotify/Deezer/Apple Music through HQPlayer. Feel free to ask if anything is unclearĮdit: I spell like ■■■■ … hope you understand anyway Each monitor and sub has its own DAC, so the AES line is daisy chained between the monitors and sub-woofer. From the HQP the signal travels over USB to a digital interface converting any output from HQP Embedded PC to AES, balanced digital stream. Spotify PC should I hope, communicate like the Roon Rock PC, but Roon offers a IP-address entry, while the Spotify PC do not. ![]() Distance not so far, but not possible to make shorter (noise). The Spotify PC It is connected to the local network and “sees” the HQP computer in Explorer, The HQP PC’s IP-address available to read from the desired Spotify PC. No DSP or any signal tempering, just “as is”. ![]() Roon ROCK does nothing except playback NAS, Tidal and Qobuz. Roon ROCK PC is also, talking to same network, addressing the HQP PC’s IP entry I added in Roon ROCK PC. The HQP Embedded PC is in listening room (dead silent). The Spotify PC is in separate room from my listening room, 'cuz not quiet enough, will be remotly run by spotify connect over wifi-LAN. ![]()
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