On top of that, five minutes of searching the Roon community gave a hint but no actual instruction. Talk about an unnecessary pain in the ass. Then wait until all the album art updates. Go down to Artwork and select Prefer File. Select Metadata Preference, top center of menu. HQPlayer 4 Desktop application, and HQPlayer Client which is library browser and control application. Select the three dots at the top of the screen. Introduction HQPlayer 4 Desktop consists of two parts. Right click the last album to select all. Go to My Library on the left and select albums. Took more searching than I wanted but I fixed it. My first frustration with Roon was that it ignored my album covers. As I type this I'm listening to something from Qobuz at 24/96, sending it to HQP which is upsampling to DSD128 and sending it to a PS Audio DS Jr. Then you can have Roon output to HQP with HQP upsampling and outputting to your DAC. Roon plays from your local files, Tidal, and Qobuz under one player. Tough lesson learned.I finally downloaded the 14 day trial of Roon. Problem is I bought from BH Photo, and have been informed that I have no return or exchange options on the Mini M1. Others seems to use a WIN based machine with an i7 chipset. Supposedly the M1 is supposed to have a powerful and flexible CPU chip, and the smaller format was valuable to me as it takes up less room in my audio cabinet. So far I cannot get the computer to do this without noise. So, the music program needs to convert any signal, whether it be 16/44.1 or DSD64/128 to DSD256 and feed it to the DAC.
The DAC chip has been configured to run at DSD256, and the unit itself is reported to offer its highest sound quality when fed that signal. This particular DAC is not typical, and this may be my issue. It seems to me that most DSD capable DAC will play whatever the native format is, and then once you have a DSD encoded file then you use that particular output. This has been my first attempt at using a DSD capable DAC, and so far its not working out very well LOL.
I just recently aquired this DAC and moved to Audirvana for the server program, previously I was using Pure Music with an Audio Magic DAC which was a multi bit design capable of doing up to 24/192. My previous Mac was a late 2012 with 16 GB of RAM.
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