I'm just registering and arriving to this forum. And I find that there's already a discussion on using PCP/Squeelite/LMS with the WiiM. This is the only way I plan to use it: as an audio manager. Can I?
Until now, my only experience with audio streaming has been with Raspberry + Linux, where I installed PCP. Interface should only be cabled Ethernet, never wifi, BT, and no web streamer like Spotify or similar. Only my own audio library.
Output will always be using an external DAC, through USB (not coaxial or optical), in this case the Topping D50.
My main concern was to be able to use the system with a plain remote control, not with a smart phone. And the Rasp unit had to have a touch-screen capable handling of the files, that were inside my PC. So I assembled and tested such a system.
But using it was not that easy. At the time I had some issues with LMS, that I believe now are solved. So I was planning to start again with that system, even try other free audio streamers.
The most important thing I have to say is that using that setup, on the tests I made, I had never listened to a digital system that played back music with such quality. No CD player that I had used, or DVD, had that fantastic music feeling.
But at the time I also had bought a Nvidia Shield TV to manage my video files, which also allows easy audio managing. I never got to compare it side by side with the PCP + DAC setup. You can use the Shield with a DAC output, but that affects the 5.1 video setup. It's one or the other.
The Shield audio quality has nothing to do with the other setup: it lacks all the extremely high audio quality of the other system. But it's easy to use. And accepted the quality sacrifice.
So here I find the WiiM, sold at a reasonable price, that seems to offer similar things to the Raspberry setup in a smaller package. It also demands an external DAC for audiophile quality. It looks promising.
But it seems to lack two things: capability to use a normal RF remote control and no touch screen connection capability. Is that so?
Well, now I would appreciate your comments to my need and if I can make the WiiM to fulfill them.
Until now, my only experience with audio streaming has been with Raspberry + Linux, where I installed PCP. Interface should only be cabled Ethernet, never wifi, BT, and no web streamer like Spotify or similar. Only my own audio library.
Output will always be using an external DAC, through USB (not coaxial or optical), in this case the Topping D50.
My main concern was to be able to use the system with a plain remote control, not with a smart phone. And the Rasp unit had to have a touch-screen capable handling of the files, that were inside my PC. So I assembled and tested such a system.
But using it was not that easy. At the time I had some issues with LMS, that I believe now are solved. So I was planning to start again with that system, even try other free audio streamers.
The most important thing I have to say is that using that setup, on the tests I made, I had never listened to a digital system that played back music with such quality. No CD player that I had used, or DVD, had that fantastic music feeling.
But at the time I also had bought a Nvidia Shield TV to manage my video files, which also allows easy audio managing. I never got to compare it side by side with the PCP + DAC setup. You can use the Shield with a DAC output, but that affects the 5.1 video setup. It's one or the other.
The Shield audio quality has nothing to do with the other setup: it lacks all the extremely high audio quality of the other system. But it's easy to use. And accepted the quality sacrifice.
So here I find the WiiM, sold at a reasonable price, that seems to offer similar things to the Raspberry setup in a smaller package. It also demands an external DAC for audiophile quality. It looks promising.
But it seems to lack two things: capability to use a normal RF remote control and no touch screen connection capability. Is that so?
Well, now I would appreciate your comments to my need and if I can make the WiiM to fulfill them.
