New Year, New Updates: WiiM January Highlights

[RyanWithWiiM]

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Hi everyone, Ryan here! January has been an exciting month for WiiM, with new announcements and community spotlights. Let's dive in!​

New Arrivals & Updates​

• Big updates came to the WiiM Home app in January. Check out the release notes for WiiM Home App v3.1.0 Update - Jan 10, 2025 including:
  • Smart Presets (Sub Output option)
  • Gapless Playback Enhancements
  • Resample Algorithm Enhancements
  • Low-Delay Multi-Room Audio
  • New Playback Screen for WiiM Ultra
  • Replay Gain Support
  • And more!
• WiiM Help Center Highlights: We've added new and refreshed articles to enhance your WiiM experience. Stay informed about future updates through our regular highlights series. In January, we added articles for streaming Apple Music, YouTube Music, Create a 5.1 Surround Sound Experience with Multiple WiiM Devices, Set Up Bit-Perfect Playback on WiiM Devices, Using the Group Audio Delay Setting for WiiM Multi-Room Audio, and more!
• WiiM Newsletter 2024 Recap: Check out all the top highlights from last year! Some big things happened including awards won, product launches, lots of great software changes, and even more!
• WiiM Ultra Named CES Innovation Awards Honoree
• WiiM Amp Pro Wins CES Picks Award in TWICE and Residential Systems Categories

Community Highlights​

• Tech Tuesday: Deep Dive into Room Correction We’ve dug into Room Correction and answers some of the questions we see the most. We’ll get into the comments and answer the questions we can as well!
• Thankful Thursday: We’re always listening for gratitude to share between community members, but that takes people to nominate and share! If you see someone out there on our community being awesome, message our team and we can shine a spotlight. We had a big nomination to share for someone who went the extra mile in making a feature request, and had to give them a shoutout.
• Forum Feedback and Suggestions board: We want to hear from you! To ensure our community forum meets your needs, we launched a dedicated board for Forum Feedback and Suggestions.

Get Involved​

• Join our Community Curators Program to shape the WiiM community's future and gain exclusive benefits. We need some people to jump in and lend a hand!
• Share your thoughts, feedback, and ideas either on the forum in the feedback section, or feature requests for WiiM in the requests section.
• Follow the Announcement board for the latest updates and promotions!
• Have a highlight to share from your browsing of the forum? Post it below!
• Call out unsung heroes for Thankful Thursdays by sending our team a private message!

Thanks for being part of our community!​

Welcome to the 855 newly registered members this month! I’m not listing you all, but we hope you stick around and join us! Happy listening!

During January 1,770 of you were active, making 7,506 posts and 5,632 reactions (aka emojis), and started 360 new threads! Thanks for being involved everyone!

 

[pieterv1]

An update on Plex(amp) integration, that would be something to write about

 

[RyanWithWiiM]

An update on Plex(amp) integration, that would be something to write about

I'm very excited to possibly write one someday

 

[William]

“Gapless Playback Enhancements”
--Could you explain this function in detail?

 

[William]

“Gapless Playback Enhancements”
--Could you explain this function in detail?

Can I experience this feature on Wiim Pro Plus?

 

[azoriusmage]

I'm very excited to possibly write one someday

A bit dismissive. How about Qobuz Connect? No firmware update since the first one is pretty dissapointing

 

[RyanWithWiiM]

A bit dismissive. How about Qobuz Connect? No firmware update since the first one is pretty dissapointing

The Qobuz Connect beta is going well from what I've heard. I'll check in with our team and see if they're ready to share a timeline for release, but I don't have visibility on what the Qobuz team is working on. With this sort of collaboration there are a lot of moving parts which can slow things down.

 

[azoriusmage]

Going well except it can’t multi room a cd quality album. Marantz work like a charm WiiM doesn’t.

 

[harkpabst]

It's still in beta ...

 

[azoriusmage]

It's still in beta ...

I am aware of that but we get 0 communciation and 0 updates since the intial beta.

 

[Rolls59]

Would love to see a future Ultra update include the ability to set high and low pass filters at nearly any frequency. For example, it would be great if the WiiM could be used as an active crossover for speakers that can be bi-amped.

If the sub output could be crossed over as high as say, 3000Hz, that would enable many owners to use the Ultra as an active crossover between the tweeters and woofers of their main speakers, providing an instant sound quality upgrade for many speaker systems. This would further solidify the Ultra as the ultimate Swiss Army knife of audio.

 

[harkpabst]

Would love to see a future Ultra update include the ability to set high and low pass filters at nearly any frequency. For example, it would be great if the WiiM could be used as an active crossover for speakers that can be bi-amped.

If the sub output could be crossed over as high as say, 3000Hz, that would enable many owners to use the Ultra as an active crossover between the tweeters and woofers of their main speakers, providing an instant sound quality upgrade for many speaker systems. This would further solidify the Ultra as the ultimate Swiss Army knife of audio.

It would need more than just a fully flexible crossover: Currently there's just one mono output for the sub.

 

[Rolls59]

It would need more than just a fully flexible crossover: Currently there's just one mono output for the sub.

Ah yeah, duh!. Didn’t even consider that. It’s early here, lol.

Maybe the two pair of pre outputs could be configured to split frequencies in the way I described.