HDPlayer
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Randy Myers
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I went back to the 2s filters in HQPlayer. I was finding that files with various different formats started driving it crazy. Dam HQPlayer is the biggest computer killing software I have ever encountered! 
Randy Myers
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Under settings/storage I added a folder entitled 'music' that I have on each of my drives. I keep all music in these 'music' folders.
That was the part I had trouble with when setting up Roon for the first time. If you are running Roon in a windows machine the path will likely involve “smb:” in the path to locate the music folder.
But Apple is different. When I was running Roon in a Mac I mapped the folder with my music from the NAS drive to the desktop of my Mac. Once I did that and I was able to direct Roon to the mapped folder, I never had to mess with it again.
I went back to the 2s filters in HQPlayer. I was finding that files with various different formats started driving it crazy. Dam HQPlayer is the biggest computer killing software I have ever encountered!
Randy,
Since you are experimenting with Roon and you have a T+A DAC, you may try and bypass HQP and use the T+A as your Roon Endpont. the T +A has two separate DACs inside one for PCM and one for DSD. Then within Roon use DSP to make the T+A to upsample all PCM to the highest PCM resolution and do the same to DSD. You will now be using the T+A to the fullest. Then compare it to the HQP upsampling everything to DSD and see what you think. And if you want to get really experimental, find a way to create convolution filters for your system and have Roon use those filters. I think you will be happily surprised.
BlueFox
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LOL. What a PITA just to listen to Internet music.
If I were in your shoes, I would stick with Roon. In my opinion, the advantage that HQP can bring relies on the filters. But the most advanced filters require very powerful computer processing which makes it a much more expensive proposition.
The computer that you got should allow you to use Roon you upsample to 256 and you can decide if it is worthy to you.
In my experience, if you use convolution filters (room correction) with Roon you will notice a much more noticeable change (improvement).
LOL. What a PITA just to listen to Internet music.
Agree! It used to be a lot worse when using Squeezeboxes. More than once I had to go back to my CDs because some computer gremlin would show up at the wrong moment.
But I can say that computer audio is no longer as hard as it appears to be and once one overcomes those initial hurdles and it is set up properly it is super convenient not to mention that (in my case) sounds better than my physical media.
Randy Myers
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Computer audio is easy, now, in my view. Roon took me a whole five minutes to setup. Then again I keep all of my music files internal on the machine itself which I am very sure makes it a ton easier. Now copying all the files to the machine took a very very very looooong time ....
HQPlayer is a pain because the initial setup is very un-intuitive. Having to go to three separate screens to setup to upsample everything to DSD is just plain silly.... I say this as a Programmer and Data Architect who has dealt with typical programmers for years, many of whom just do not get the concept of making software intuitive to use. This is essentially important in my view, however HQPlayer has built a reputation of making very good sounding software so long as you are willing to pull your hair out setting it up.
I have directly compared Roon upsampling to DSD512 and HQPlayer doing the same... they are now getting fairly close but I still prefer the sound of HQPlayer, slightly. I really wish I didn't because it is hard to recommend HQPlayer to anyone who is not very comfortable playing around with computers.
....HQPlayer is a pain because the initial setup is very un-intuitive. Having to go to three separate screens to setup to upsample everything to DSD is just plain silly.... I say this as a Programmer and Data Architect who has dealt with typical programmers for years, many of whom just do not get the concept of making software intuitive to use. This is essentially important in my view, however HQPlayer has built a reputation of making very good sounding software so long as you are willing to pull your hair out setting it up.
I have directly compared Roon upsampling to DSD512 and HQPlayer doing the same... they are now getting fairly close but I still prefer the sound of HQPlayer, slightly. I really wish I didn't because it is hard to recommend HQPlayer to anyone who is not very comfortable playing around with computers.