Recent content by d6jg

I have always had S shaped tonearms. They have SME connections - you can swap the headshell and therefore cartridge in seconds. Turntable is Direct Drive but I also have a belt drive.

♪ Playing Working Day And Night by Michael Jackson from Off The Wall (Vinyl 2M Black) (1979) (Local • 2780kbps VBR, 24bit, 96kHz, -7.58dB, FLC)

I also bought that when it came out. One of my earliest LP purchases. Well worn but still playable today. Great album.

You don't need to know anything about GitHub in this instance provided you can scroll down and find the "Releases" download link which is obvious.

Lyrion it isn't going to be able to stream something from a browser session unless you can determine the URL that actually contains the stream. If using Chrome then you could "cast" the audio to the WiiM if Chromecast is enabled on the WiiM. I believe it will support 24/96 but not gapless...

I’ve not played this in ages! ♪ Playing Starlings by Elbow from The Seldom Seen Kid (CD) (2008) (Local • 644kbps VBR, 16bit, 44.1kHz, -8.99dB, FLC)

If you play a playlist containing tracks only then track RG is used. Edit- should say that every track contains both a track RG tag and an album RG tag.

Yes. You need RG tags across your entire library. It’s not difficult to apply retrospectively (Foobar 2000) and configure CD Ripper to automatically add to new stuff. I use dbPoweramp to rip. Some of the streaming services have RG tag info in their streams eg Qobuz do and LMS will use them also.

It’s not the cable per se it’s the quality of the PCs onboard audio card. For better audio quality a DDC will be better - USB to Optical would be how I would connect. Cubilux make a good cheap one. Make sure you get USB to Optical and not the reverse. They make both and they look identical...

Now some Afrobeat ♪ Playing Egbe Mi O by Fela Kuti from Fela's London Scene (CD) (1971) (Local • 910kbps VBR, 16bit, 44.1kHz, -7.49dB, FLC)

This has made me wonder. Does WiiM playback via DLNA or attached USB support RG?

If you weren’t playing anything at all then selected an album to play and stopped playing anything after then RG has no point. Album RG is for when you play an album immediately followed by another and so on. You won’t have to change overall volume.

PS You can choose not to display any of the technical information if you wish.

In Lyrion you can set your player to obey RG tags or not. Mine is set to obey so it displays the tag value. If it was off it wouldn’t show. There are 2 RG tags. One at track level and one for the entire album. Here I added the entire album to my queue so it’s using that.

The -2.98dB is the ReplayGain value. FLC means FLAC but I’m sure you knew that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayGain?wprov=sfti1#Alternatives