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Wouldn’t cut it for you……or your significant other? :unsure:

If an analogy is made with pharmaceutical clinical trials then I would suggest that each listener should never have been exposed to either piece of equipment previously and (something I have not seen mentioned here) that it be a crossover trial i.e. rather than just A/B, half the subjects are...

Just read this thread after the “WiiM in Reverse” thread and my head hurts! Both are a testament to the patience shown by the community contributors.

Happy 1st April 🙂

Thank you, yes, Lyrion. And also thanks for your suggestion: I was not aware it existed. Will give it a spin. Dear WiiM team. I was surprised there were not more options to automatically suggest playlists from a personal library. It is difficult to know how much unmet demand there is for this...

There are a number of apps which can automatically suggest playlists from streaming services using specific criteria or even AI e.g. ‘Suggest a playlist for a dinner party using well known tunes’. However, I cannot find anything which serves a similar purpose for an existing personal (ripped)...

I have had exactly the same issue with WiiM Mini (upnpbridge) after it finishes playing Amazon Music: if there is anything on an LMS playlist within PiCorePlayer then that starts playing, no matter how long ago it last played. To my shame, I have not spent any time trying to troubleshoot it...

I know it is ridiculously easy to criticise Sonos at the moment but I have always been pleasantly surprised by how good the lowly Beam sounds when playing music, either through its internal streamer or via LMS. Not as good as a bespoke WiiM/separates setup, of course, but still perfectly acceptable.

Another option (especially for iPhone users with limited storage) is to upload your rips to the cloud and then use apps like the venerable Cloudbeats to stream or download in full quality to your phone as and when you wish. You can also AirPlay/Bluetooth tracks from there to any other supported...

A Chord Mojo 2 is relatively affordable and is so good it will never be the weakest link in your audio chain unless you spend ludicrous amounts of money. I agree that other components are likely to have a larger effect on the sound but from a ‘front end first’ philosophy it means you can...

I would prefer not to name them directly as I have no idea of their circumstances other than their contribution to different LMS forums has fallen markedly in the last 6 months. My only point is that loss of such precious individuals could have a major impact on the project going forward. Of...

I really like my Raspberry Pi LMS setup and use it in conjunction with a WiiM device most days. If I have any reservation about LMS, it is that its open source nature, which is an advantage in so many ways, also means it’s dependent on a small number of enthusiastic and altruistic individuals to...

Can anyone remind me of the maximum resolution supported by grouped WiiM devices? I seem to recall it being 24 bit/48 kHz (which would be more than enough for any flavour of AirPlay, of course), but I could not find the relevant WiiM support document to confirm.

These are all great suggestions, but my initial advice would be to see if even a slight relocation of the router might help. I remember having issues when it was placed behind the screen of a television. Just moving it to the side or below the tv led to data transfer rates which, from a...

What you can certainly say is that there is little logic in buying an expensive streamer ($/£1K+) because the hit would be so much higher. And there are so many of these now appearing from established manufacturers. If the highest fidelity is required then anything from WiiM linked to a high...