INTERACT FORUM
Devices => Sound Cards, DAC's, Receivers, Speakers, and Headphones => Topic started by: jbony01 on November 15, 2022, 01:23:28 pm
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There's been a lot of changes between MC24 to MC30, way too many to make a note of. The easiest way to find out what it brings to you is to try it.
You can also try digging through the release notes for each version, but that's probably going to be very time consuming.
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Release_Notes_MC25
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Release_Notes_MC26
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Release_Notes_MC27
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Release_Notes_MC28
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Release_Notes_MC29
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Release_Notes_MC30
I notice that you are using a PI4 with a Topping DAC, can you give me a little bit of details about this setup? I have a topping D90 and I would like a Linux based system as my music server, and the Pi4 seems the cheapest option, but I am wondering about the audio quality from such setup versus a windows based setup?
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The Topping DAC is connected to my PC, not the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi just functions as my MC30 server, which allows me to stream audio to JRemote2 and MO 4Media on my Android-based devices.
However, when I also used Fedora on this PC in a dual boot with Windows 11, the Topping DAC functioned perfectly (using the hw: audio output that bypasses the system mixer, which depending on distro like Fedora you may need to tweak to enable the hw: output, but Ubuntu autodetects it fine). I don't see why it wouldn't work fine on a Raspberry Pi, especially if you use a distro like Ubuntu.
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I use Topping D/A with Linux all the time , there's no major compatibility issues, they're 'USB Audio Class" devices which means they should work out of the box with any modern, mainstream distro supporting audio.
HW: is the way. You shouldn't have to mix sources, and the Topping handles any format you throw at it (so you don't need to resample unless you're doing it in software).