#Minimserver and bubbleupnp install
#Minimserver and bubbleupnp windows 10
#Minimserver and bubbleupnp windows

I will report back my findings (hopefully I will get a chance to do that tonight). I will leave that up to folks who have better hearing than me :-). I installed HQP Desktop on the same system last night so I can compare settings between desktop and embedded and playback functionality and will not be comparing the sound quality between various settings. These screenshots are from a desktop remote called NoMachine, which is pretty good! Here is my Linux desktop settings window, and then the XML driving hqplayerd (with upsampling filter set to 11, which I think is poly-sinc-mp-2s, set in order to reduce hiccupping but to no avail yet)

#Minimserver and bubbleupnp windows

Note: I've tried using jRIver and JRemote (from my home office Windows desktop setup) but gotten poor and unusable results (best case horrible hiccuping, worst case silence), but shadowlight reports it does work, so that, my ultimate goal, is still on hold. However, hqplayerd hiccups pretty significantly when trying to play PCM in DSD512 (haven't changed bitrates yet), regardless of the filter I think I am using (I say 'I think' cuz I am not fluent yet in understanding the filter numbering in the XML files). As long as I play PCM in PCM (to 352.8k) or DSD in DSD (DSD512) the playback is fine. HQplayerd is being played from a Minimserver server and a couple of control points, BubbleUPnP and Kinsky (Kazoo requires OpenHome, and although I have created an OpneHome version of hqplayerd renderer Kazoo sees it but doesn't play.

#Minimserver and bubbleupnp windows 10

On first tests I am finding that HQPlayer desktop on Linux acts and sounds virtually identical to my Windows 10 version, and seems to have the same limitations (i.e virtually none, although have not tested with multichannel yet, and I will assume that cuda offloading will need to be turned on then). Additionally, hqplayerd A8 does not support 'auto' format switching (SDM vs PCM) so I edit the config XML and restart hqplayerd to accommodate (again, this is all in testing.I can't live this way). Also, hqplayerd is command line driven so I am using cheat sheets from shadowlight to start, stop and change settings, and I admit ALL of my issues could be user error. OK, first off hqplayerd does not yet support cuda offloading, so I turned that off in Linux desktop too, to try and compare results (smooth playback and sq differences, if needed). Now A11 is out there and Piero, the owner of AudioLinux, has graciously put it up, but I am using generous shadowlight's offer to play guinea pig first I am running HQPlayer desktop version 3.15 and running hqplayerd at version 4.0.a8 version alpha 9 and 10 have been tested but we were having NAA problems so I downgraded to A8. So this thread's beginnings is to unclutter the normal HQPlayer thread and focus on hqplayerd and how, as a lInux newbie, I see it differing from the HQP desktop. The 'regular' HQplayer that many of us use is called HQPlayer Desktop, and Audiolinux has one of those too (as well as MPD, JRIver, Roon, and many other audio products). Pretty simple first step into the world of Linux audio. Remove and reboot and I get Winwods 10 back. Simply reboot the machine with USB inserted.Audiolinux comes up.

It resides on a 32GB bootable USB stick, plugged into a USB2 port on my HQP server (Windows 10, i7 6700k, 32GB, Nvidia cuda support, etc).

#Minimserver and bubbleupnp install

Before I settle on one version I thought I would take up shadowlight's recommednation to install a full plug-n-play version called Audiolinux. Some use Debian, some Ubuntu, and others a host of different forms of Linux.

One thing about Linux: it is many things.

(Note: CA forum member shadowlight is not a Linux idiot he has generously helped me try to get acquainted with Linux and hqplayerd. Since Jussi's Linux product called HQplayer embedded (or hqplayerd for short) can be a renderer, I thought I would begin a new thread about how this new world seems to me. I have been saying for some time that a combination of using JRemote as a control point or remote, into HQPlayer, would be the best of both worlds, as I spent quite a bit of time getting JRIver to be a very friendly GUI. I find it to be the best upsampling engine going. I am a long time user (and BIG proponent) of HQPlayer.