castalla
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I sort of lost interest in replaying all the music of the past when my wife of 55 years passed away last year. Music can also be very sad.
Thats the most sad situation I can imagine, so sorry for you.I sort of lost interest in replaying all the music of the past when my wife of 55 years passed away last year. Music can also be very sad.
I was thinking a playlist is put together from the favorites of my content. I suppose someone else's suggestions are a playlist too. It's a matter of wording, but you know what I mean...
If I want to play a playlist I choose one already put together by Qobuz.
Sound like a career with a lot of memories and the fact that you are here shows music is still important to you.I was a high level professional trombonist for 48 years on the jazz and commercial scene in Chicago. I worked constantly and when I wasn’t working I was practicing to always be in game shape. It left little time for other endeavors, though I managed to find time for fishing. Usually late night after a gig.
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as a joke I was going to call this "What are you listening to?". 3200+ posts! but seriously...
Q1. Most of the time, what do you listen to, a Streaming service or content from a local drive on your network?
Q2. Do you listen to individual songs, traditional albums (format), playlists, or suggested content?
Most of my library is FLAC rips of my CDs and some purchased downloads. What I have now was not too long ago a dream, but I was wondering how most (that stream) are enjoying their music.
Thanks
Does either the Android or iOS app have Chromecast/Airplay option?I am in the UK and run a Wiim pro through an external Dac, streaming Tidal, which sounds very good through my Quad/Harbeth system.
However I recently took a free month's trial of a relatively new streaming service "Prestomusic" (March 23), which is designed for Classical and Jazz enthusiasts and has an extensive catalogue of 200,000 classical and Jazz albums, updated with the latest releases weekly, streaming up to 24bit x 192kHz. It runs apps for iOS, Android and desktop and is available in a number of countries. See their website <prestomusic.com/streaming> for further details.
I linked my new Windows 11 desktop to my Hi-fi and listened to the same Hi Res streams from both Tidal and Prestomusic and preferred the sound of the latter. More natural timbre and firmer detailed bass although the soundstage wasn't quite so wide .It wasn't a scientific exercise of course and I am sure equipment, room acoustics,volume and especially ears, play a part in the sound quality judgement!
I would have preferred to use a streamer directly through my Hi-fi but this new service is not of course included in the Wiim App.
Prestomusic have their own streamer, and the App also runs on BluOS devices.
I don't want to run two streaming devices, due to limited dac inputs but If Wiim ever includes this streaming service on its devices, I shall definitely be switching from Tidal to Prestomusic.
I would be interested to know if others have tried this service and what they think of it.
Chromecast for classical music? Blasphemy!Does either the Android or iOS app have Chromecast/Airplay option?
I like that approach but it could be done with just one server in play and the "daily background station" could include stuff from certain streaming services if you wished.I sometimes listen to a record through a pro plus or a cassette through a mini. If I have free time, I listen to my digital collection using emby media server and the android app symfonium. I use the smart playlist function or the random album function to help select. Most of my digital music is CDs ripped to flac, about 80,000 tracks.
But when I'm just going about my daily business at home or out and about, I can't be faffed messing about with my phone choosing music and what have you. So I have another server that mirrors the digital music collection as backup. This runs a command line music player called cmus which plays my collection 24/7. It then uses a program called darkice to create a radio station streaming whatever cmus is playing in ogg-vorbis at 500kb that I can access at home and when I'm out via cellular data.
I have some scripts that are called at various times that will filter the library based on the file path or genre or whatever and queue up some random albums based on those filters. So currently I get some new-age music between 4.30-6am, then some punk/metal for the gym till 7, Pop/Rock 1 till 5, some Jazz/Blues/World/Country/Folk till 9 then some chamber music/classical vocal at night. All from my own collection and always whole albums. It's easy to change the filters and times if I want but I rarely do.
My wiim remotes in the kitchen and living room have that radio station as a preset and my Bluetooth speakers in the bathroom and garage play it automatically when I switch them on.
Never, ever a streaming service. I have enough music of my own and I don't think any of them would allow me to do what I just described automatically.