OK, I give up and have to ask: why can't I play Qobuz streams? I used to be able to. Can browse to it. Browse to recent purchases, etc. See it in queue, but tracks will not play? Is there a setting/procedure I'm missing? Thanks in advance...
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Switch to Roon, play a Qobuz track, then switch back to TAS works too. We’re investigating what may be causing this.
Sorry a bit off topic, but can I ask a couple of questions about the JL Sounds USB board? Do Lampizator use the standard card? And you mentioned on a previous post that you had it professionally installed. How hard is it to do? Thanks
steve williams
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It is the JL Sounds USB board that now come standard IIRC
I personally would never try doing it myself. You need a Loupe and needle tip soldering iron. The entire remove and install was perhaps 2 hours.
I did an extensive search of computer board repair shops near me. I spoke to each by phone. The one I used only does computer board repairs. i watched him do it and his was a very steady and experienced hand. I’ve had no issues with his job Cost me about $275 plus cost of the new USB board
I personally would never try doing it myself. You need a Loupe and needle tip soldering iron. The entire remove and install was perhaps 2 hours.
I did an extensive search of computer board repair shops near me. I spoke to each by phone. The one I used only does computer board repairs. i watched him do it and his was a very steady and experienced hand. I’ve had no issues with his job Cost me about $275 plus cost of the new USB board
Steve had his installed in CA. I had mine installed by the North American Lampizator technician in Pennsylvania (about an hour drive from my home). Fred, the NA distributor told me the JL USB boards can also be installed by Lampi in Poland, but that requires shipping the unit back to the factory.
steve williams
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I won't dispute a word that you say. In fact I have tell you that I have been down all of the paths that you have taken in my audio travails. I used to tweak and modify everything. It is not a path I have any desire to descend into ever again. It is as if you re playing your music to hear your system rather than playing your system to hear the music.
I have probably been down more rabbit holes than you can imagine. My system now is quite mature and yes I am quite satisfied with what I am hearing. The only way that I would use a switch is if Emile manufacturers his own and sells it because he feels it makes a sonic improvement.
BTW I do use an Arris dedicated modem with an LPS as well as a LPS for my router. I have used many of your recommendations so I am at peace with my system now.
As one who implements both the M12 Gold and the totally tricked-out Buffalo by @nenon I can say they have to great success made the music coming out of my speakers sound more lively and natural and gotten me closer to the experience of live music played in an acoustically dialed in environment. That I could experience this by adding the USB soundcard and removing the two switches is of great interest. If that plays out someone will be getting a couple of fantastic components at less than MSRP. If not, then the SQ of my system has taken another leap. Sounds like a win-win...
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this is a longstanding issue in many engineering problems.
from a given starting point, we can perhaps add 5 or 6 improvements, each of which makes a large or small improvement.
however, the order in which these are introduced can have a profound impact on what we consider to have a large impact and which we consider small. as a general rule, but not always, the earlier an improvement is added the larger its perceived impact.
in a radio communication system, i can improve the performance by increasing the transmit power, or by more sophisticated signal processing techniques in the receiver or by a lower noise front end de-modulator or by adding diversity via space (antennas) or frequency or time. all of these things help but their relative incremental benefits vary with the order in which they are introduced.** Often diversity reception is the most beneficial (if not the cheapest) and the addition of antenna diversity makes some of the other methods almost redundant (e.g. if diversity reduces the probability of low SNR due to fading and makes it rarely seen, all those previously cool things that were designed to work at lower effective SNR have a diminished incremental benefit and perhaps none at all).
i suspect that the buffering and other improvements in usb driver 5.0, along with the new usb card, will prove similarly effective. it seems likely that a new paradigm will be upon us, as these insights into "what really matters" overtakes EFTM.
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this has been known to drive (less technical) upper level management to infinite frustration, first by the idea that the relative benefits of A vs. B vs. C are not fixed or constant, and second that some earlier improvements may now be considered redundant and of no current value at all.
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Question about tagging...
I know the LMS part of TAS is going away eventually but for now that's what we are using. I am working on cleaning up my tags but have noticed a number of times that I will correct a tag and rescan the files only to find that nothing has changed in the album artist view. For example, I had a file set with the artist and album artist set to "John Coltrane Quartet" but changed it to "John Coltrane" so all his albums fall under one artists. It is still showing up under "John Coltrane Quartet" even though that is erased from the meta data. I have other examples of this behavior.
Is there something else I should be doing to update my library? Is there a setting where LMS is getting information from some place other than my library?
I know the LMS part of TAS is going away eventually but for now that's what we are using. I am working on cleaning up my tags but have noticed a number of times that I will correct a tag and rescan the files only to find that nothing has changed in the album artist view. For example, I had a file set with the artist and album artist set to "John Coltrane Quartet" but changed it to "John Coltrane" so all his albums fall under one artists. It is still showing up under "John Coltrane Quartet" even though that is erased from the meta data. I have other examples of this behavior.
Is there something else I should be doing to update my library? Is there a setting where LMS is getting information from some place other than my library?
...along similar lines, should I trouble to redistribute hundreds and hundreds of files to specific folders to get better result sets? Search doesn't seem to reference meta-tags sometimes (often, actually).
Data was moved from Aurender; Conductor search returns jazz results regardless of which folder file was in.
I get this is not good data structure on my part, but files/folders were gathered from multiple sources over time.
Actually, search limitation is one of the more frustrating aspects of the current Beta, IMO. Perhaps I am not understanding correct usage of the tool.
Do folks recommend re-organizing files by genre folders and running search within that folder? Thank you.
Data was moved from Aurender; Conductor search returns jazz results regardless of which folder file was in.
I get this is not good data structure on my part, but files/folders were gathered from multiple sources over time.
Actually, search limitation is one of the more frustrating aspects of the current Beta, IMO. Perhaps I am not understanding correct usage of the tool.
Do folks recommend re-organizing files by genre folders and running search within that folder? Thank you.
One of the useful references for LMS issues that I use from time to time is:
Three ways to rescan Logitech Media Server, and one way to avoid it!
Three ways of initiating rescans of Logitech Media Server, and how to avoid this by scheduling rescans.
www.blisshq.com
Under scanning behavior it says:
"In some cases, Clear library and rescan everything may be required, although it shouldn't be used in typical usage.
"Edit - 17th December 2014. Mark Browell made some points about the reliability of "Look for new and changed media files" in the comments. Some examples:
- Changing artist names doesn't remove now-unused artist names
- Same for album names
- Adding new tracks to an existing album creates a new album!
- Doesn't handle multiple tags using a delimiter very well
"Which of these gremlins affect you depends on the version of LMS you are using. More here: Bug 17963 - New and changed doesn't handle changed files. The workaround is to use "Clear library and rescan everything"."
Farther up in the quoted reference the article describes how to choose the type of scanning from the web browser view of LMS (IP address:9000).
Hope this helps,
Steve Z
Theoretically how files are organized on your hard drive shouldn’t affect how they appear in the viewer. I guess there could be minor exceptions to this. Some data handlers can’t handle albums in multiple folders. They treat them as separate albums.
However, my files are very well organized so it is easy to find them if I need to edit them or do something with them.
I'm not touching a thing in my music file database during this beta roll out. When Logitech Media Server goes away then I'll be back grooming my music files. Too many moving parts still to be determined......
Of course YMMV
Of course YMMV
My thoughts exactly, that's why I was irritated by the results. Thanks guys, I will review the data, with the knowledge that things are in flux.
I am making changes to obvious errors, like misspellings. I will wait on making wholesale changes until the LMS-less version of TAS is released.
So, have you tried rescanning with the setting, "Clear library and rescan everything"?
Steve Z
