Ongoing Beta Beta Test: Qobuz Connect

[John_H]

Same here… no reply yet. Very slow.

I'm waiting also.

 

[Balthazar B]

Yes I provided MAC, Serial, Device Model and both accounts. Should I run it again?

Nothing to lose by entering it again. Drop an email to the QC beta team. And if you sign on to Qobuz Club, try reaching out to Albadoud for status.

In the meantime check a couple of times a day for an update to the Qobuz app. After you're registered correctly on the Play Store, the proper beta update should become available for installation.

 

[adias]

I am all set with QC. iOS beta released and installed via TestFlight.

Using the QC beta with Ultra. Everything seems to work. All stream resolutions up to 192kHz.

Anything to look into? With iOS as the controller app.

 

[adias]

Even stranger - if I go to the PC desktop beta, I still can see my beta WiiM devices OK, and if I cast to my Android phone that couldn't see the WiiMs on the beta firmware, it then can see the Wiim betas as well as the Desktop beta. iOs testflight invite expired so looks like I need to contact the Qobuz Beta team.

An email I received today from Qobuz stated:

'If the Qobuz application displays that you are not in the beta, please wait a little, We are working on a fix this week.
Get back to me next week if nothing has changed.'

 

[SteeVeeBee69]

I got the white listed email and I uninstalled combine and installed the one they had on there. My Wiim has beta firmware with still no go. I got the email for my iPad as well. I will message the suggestions above to see what's going on thank you for all your help everyone.

 

[Balthazar B]

I got the white listed email and I uninstalled combine and installed the one they had on there. My Wiim has beta firmware with still no go. I got the email for my iPad as well. I will message the suggestions above to see what's going on thank you for all your help everyone.

I believe you'll need to install the QC beta app on your iPad via Testflight...

 

[SteeVeeBee69]

I believe you'll need to install the QC beta app on your iPad via Testflight...

I have my Wiim on it too. It doesn't seem it either.

 

[Balthazar B]

I have my Wiim on it too. It doesn't seem it either.

So right now, there have to be three things in place for QC to work in beta:

1. QC-capable firmware on rendering endpoints (e.g., WiiM);
2. QC beta app(s) on your mobile device, Mac, or PC;
3. Rendering devices and app store IDs whitelisted at Qobuz.

It sounds like you've got 1 and 3 in place, but 2 still isn't? If you have a Mac and/or PC, I'd suggest installing the beta desktop app on it/them, and then test QC functionality with your WiiM. I believe it's still a requirement that your controller and renderer devices need to reside on the same subnet.

 

[SteeVeeBee69]

So right now, there have to be three things in place for QC to work in beta:

1. QC-capable firmware on rendering endpoints (e.g., WiiM);
2. QC beta app(s) on your mobile device, Mac, or PC;
3. Rendering devices and app store IDs whitelisted at Qobuz.

It sounds like you've got 1 and 3 in place, but 2 still isn't? If you have a Mac and/or PC, I'd suggest installing the beta desktop app on it/them, and then test QC functionality with your WiiM. I believe it's still a requirement that your controller and renderer devices need to reside on the same subnet.

Is this the correct firmware? When I clicked more info it asked if I wanted to do beta. I clicked on firmware and it said connect. I have tried rebooting as well. Sorry to be such a pain. I appreciate everyone's help

 

[celeste]

Is this the correct firmware? When I clicked more info it asked if I wanted to do beta. I clicked on firmware and it said connect. I have tried rebooting as well. Sorry to be such a pain. I appreciate everyone's help

yes, it's the same firmware tag I have installed on my Pro Plus (4.8.712055(beta))

 

[adias]

Tested WiiM Grouping. Works well.

When a hi-res file 96 or 192 is streamed what res is transmitted in the grouping? Isn’t it limited to 48? So, transcoding in tge master unit?

 

[adias]

For the veterans of this beta:

What to test/look for at this stage of the beta? Any particular issue?

 

[Burnside]

Tested WiiM Grouping. Works well.

When a hi-res file 96 or 192 is streamed what res is transmitted in the grouping? Isn’t it limited to 48? So, transcoding in tge master unit?

Limited to 24/48 as far as I can see on my linked Linn amp. While the Qobuz and WiiM apps appear to be showing 192, I’d normally lean towards Qobuz only sending 24/48 rather than transcoding in the WiiM but not sure given the conflicting info.

 

[adias]

Limited to 24/48 as far as I can see on my linked Linn amp. While the Qobuz and WiiM apps appear to be showing 192, I’d normally lean towards Qobuz only sending 24/48 rather than transcoding in the WiiM but not sure given the conflicting info.

For background music it’s fine. I rarely do grouping, as I prefer to listen in one location.

 

[Balthazar B]

For the veterans of this beta:

What to test/look for at this stage of the beta? Any particular issue?

I think they have the major items sorted. Besides the multiroom issue fixed a couple weeks back, earlier on I'd been seeing some instability and longer-than-necessary timeouts when connectivity failed, but Qobuz (and perhaps WiiM) have addressed these as well.

Maybe there are still some corner case issues yet to be discovered/resolved, but it's working fine for my use cases. I haven't done a lot of testing with moving devices around on my VLANs/subnets/meshes, but it wouldn't surprise me if there are some gotchas with those scenarios.

 

[adias]

I think they have the major items sorted. Besides the multiroom issue fixed a couple weeks back, earlier on I'd been seeing some instability and longer-than-necessary timeouts when connectivity failed, but Qobuz (and perhaps WiiM) have addressed these as well.

Maybe there are still some corner case issues yet to be discovered/resolved, but it's working fine for my use cases. I haven't done a lot of testing with moving devices around on my VLANs/subnets/meshes, but it wouldn't surprise me if there are some gotchas with those scenarios.

I have been playing long playlists. I noticed one hicup in one track but so far just one.

 

[adias]

I made a suggestion on the feedback site regarding a default playback device.

 

[Balthazar B]

I have been playing long playlists. I noticed one hicup in one track but so far just one.

Pretty rarely, I've had a track skip to the next one half-way through, but I don't know if that's on WiiM or Qobuz. Or a network glitch.
I can't force reproduce it at will, unfortunately.

 

[SteeVeeBee69]

Okay my iPad and PC it's working fine just not on Android. Loving it so far.

 

[adias]

We well know that WiiM streamers’control is via the WHA operating under a common SSID. If one moves out of the network's WiFi range streamer control is not possible even if the WHA host platform has cell network access. But… if one Qconnects a WiiM streamer, it is possible to move out of WiFi range and still control the remote streamer via QC with cell access.