Tidal

[Wim J]

Tried latest release, and Tidal is working now. But I get on more then 10 songs playing from the playlists, then it starts skipping song and goes into pause,...
Is this Tidal related? My internet speeds is 10Mbps which is not great but should be plenty for audio streaming. All is hardwired with CAT5E and/or CAT6 and at least 100Mbps Netgear switches (managable)

[Chris Rice]

[Wim J]

Yes indeed I m running the 2015-2-20 fimware ,... Sorry

[Chris Rice]

[Wim J]

I'm Using mpd player,... because i'm getting no sound from mplayer. It even doesn't start playing. So at the moment mplayer is no option for me. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. When settings are lossless and MPD I have basic functionality and am able to play music. When settings are lossless and mplayer, I can see song and albums, but can't select them and so they don't play.

update: I got to the situation mplayer is playing according to the screen on my desktop. But in reality my BDA2 doesn't even lock. I happend to noticed in the tidal screen that the bitrates when trying to use mplayer were very low ( 11 , 71, 99...) as already said the BDA2 doesn't lock and the player eventually stops in some kind of pause condition. Similar to what happens at MPD (but only after some songs were succesfully played using MPD).
I also noticed with MPD that before music goes into pause music starts stuttering, then tries playing the next track, eventually skipping that and following tracks. When pressing 'play' again music resumes, but most of the times is starts stuttering again,..

[Chris Rice]

Have you tried rebooting between switching between mpd and mplayer? Are you connecting to the DAC via USB or SPDIF? The disadvantage of MPD is you must play a track within ten minutes of adding it to the play queue, otherwise the url times out and is no longer valid. We can't do anything about the stuttering that occurs when set to lossless. We are still working our bugs with mplayer, but currently its the most promising method we have tested as of yet.

Cheers,
Chris

[Wim J]

[Chris Rice]

We changed how the bitrate is shown, it is in fact much higher then it is display'd. We havn't implemented support for USB interfaces with the mplayer playback method, this should hopefully be done today.

Cheers,
Chris

[Wim J]

Ok, I'll wait for USB support of mplayer then. The BDA2 's inputs are almost all in use,...

[Wim J]

Today I loaded the 2015-02-26 beta 2.10 software. Without any problems I got mplayer to work. I also was able to listen to more then 10 songs without stuttering playback. This is a very promising evolution Keep the sofware updates coming !