Upgraded Qplay, support for Netease Music and Airplay2

[billpong]

As Wiim is getting more and more popular in China, some domestic features has to be upgraded to expand the user group. In particular, the Qplay sound quality, is only limited to 320kbps. No lossless format is supported. Though QQ music don't have the best source quality, but it is still the app with most users in China. One other very popular music app is Netease Music, which also has alot of users, and better sound quality than QQ music.

If none of above is easily achievable, adding apple airplay 2 will do the job. Since airplay directs the stream to the player losslessly and have much better sound quality result than Google cast. I think every audio enthiuaist know this. It's hard to understand that the very low end model Wiim Mini has airplay but this premium product Wiim Amp Ultra doesn't.

 

[Burnside]

If none of above is easily achievable, adding apple airplay 2 will do the job. Since airplay directs the stream to the player losslessly and have much better sound quality result than Google cast. I think every audio enthiuaist know this.

I’d argue the opposite - even in the (rare) situations where AirPlay 2 does support lossless, it can’t support any more than 24/48. Indeed, in arguably its most quoted use case when using AirPlay 2 with Apple Music, all you get is lossy 256kbps AAC except in one very specific instance using macOS. Chromecast on the other hand can support up to 24/192 as I’ve done on my WiiM Pro and Pro Plus, inter alia.

It's hard to understand that the very low end model Wiim Mini has airplay but this premium product Wiim Amp Ultra doesn't.

As had been reported several times, the WiFi/BT module in Wiim devices from the WiiM Ultra onwards doesn’t have the necessary certified hardware to support Airplay so its future addition is seen as extremely unlikely.