As Auralic uses openhome and that isn’t compatible with Audirvana is there a bridge that will convert UPnP to openhome?
I installed studio on my QNAP NAS but the remote interface is tiny on my macbook (and no I won’t use a phone/tablet) and the studio app won’t connect to the headless client
Really want to use Audirvana with the Auralic but this is proving to be a real PITA.
I’m really interested to know why you want to use Audirvana with your Auralic?
I gave up on the prospect of the two being compatible a year or two ago, and to be honest I really can’t determine the difference in SQ between AS and the proprietary Lightning DS platform.
I now only use AS when I’m listening with headphones in my home office, and am not able to access Qobuz whilst in my place of employment, so will probably regress to Origin when my subscription is up for renewal.
This is not a criticism/point scoring exercise, as I’m genuinely interested in the fact that you may perceive a difference in SQ?
Because IMHO audirvana sounds better than other apps I’ve used. I like the Roon interface but the sound just isn’t right, it’s a bit flat and lifeless to me.
Whether that is down to filters or some form of DSP in the background I don’t know, and personally don’t care. I don’t go in for any of that bit perfect or must me the original recording malarky.
Radio Paradise is another one where it sounds better than other platforms. Bill said years ago it was down to the software he uses to mix and render the streams but stopped saying that after all the audiophiles started chanting the “not original” mantra.
I just want a sound I like and that is the ESS based Auralic and audirvana.
Strange, because I have upmpdcli set to be an OpenHome renderer and Audirvana works nicely with it. Perhaps upmpdcli is compatible with both OpenHome and garden variety UPnP as I have it configured.
Never heard of that and my OP was a question on what is possible so declaring that something I have never heard of works is really not helpful
Just tried to install that upmpdcli on a raspberry pi and it is a nightmare, no clear instructions and seems to be aimed at and written for developers.
My apologies - what I was trying to say was that I wondered whether Audirvana might work with OpenHome on Auralic, but I’ve seen enough posts to the contrary now to think it’s at the very least problematic.
Yes, getting upmpdcli installed is difficult for the novice. Not something I’d recommend if you’ve never done something like this before unless you have plenty of time and patience.
Yeah I was a bit snippy and bad tempered as I’ve been trying to install it (the docs really are badly written and very vague i.e it tells you to do something with an e.g rather than the exact command)
Think it’s installed and running but the config gui fails to launch and the config file seems very complicated. Think I’ll call it quits.
Hello @Jud, this seems very strange to me as Audirvana does not connect to OpenHome devices AFAIK, it only connectes to UPnP-av devices.
But upmpdcli can expose itself as both UPnP-av and OpenHome, even at the same time. This aspect is regulated by the configuration variables “upnpav” and “openhome”. See here under “Media Renderer parameters”.
You can set them both to 1 and you have both UPnP-av and OpenHome, but you can set them individually and thus configure exactly which functionalities you want to make available on the network.
You can set both to 0 and not even connect to an mpd instance if you want to just create a Media Server, but that is another story.
OTOH, is Auralic itself based on mpd+upmpdcli? does the device have the port 6600 open?
Hello, I am asking this because if the mpd port was open, one could run an additional upmpdcli instance somewhere in the network and add the UPNP-av support. Some threads reported that they changed the default mpd port. I also don’t own any Auralic device so I cannot say.
Just checked my endpoint, and OpenHome is enabled (nice for using various apps designed to work only with OpenHome), while UPnP-AV is not. I did have it enabled at one time, but have never noticed any difference between having it enabled and having it disabled.
For me it’s easiest just to change upmpdcli.conf to enable UPnP-AV rather than running an additional instance, though for someone else the situation may be different.
Sure, there is no different in sound quality, it’s all about functionality.
About creating another instance instead of changing upmpdcli.conf, I was referring to the Auralic situation, where you can’t act on the installed software. In your case of course it’s better to just tune the upmpdcli.conf file you already have
Reading this topic I don’t know if the actual problem was solved by the Plays With program?
I always assumed that in that case devices are compatible with Audirvāna, but this topic suggests otherwise…
Think the original posts related to this later post referenced earlier models. I note the “plays with” only references the newer 2.2 Altair and Vega 2.2 and S1 models and there are only 3 in total, quite a few less than Auralic manufacture.