Under my current setup, I have a pCP server streaming tidal, deezer and
radio paradise etc in flac to my separate pCP player.
The transcoding rule is very simple:
flc flc * *
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and I enjoy my setup immensely.
The other day, out of boredom, I tried roon in my windows machine just
to see the much appraised UI improvements. I clicked "Enable Squeezebox
support" entered my tidal credentials was ready to listen to tidal
stream without mqa. The player was the exact same pCP running the same
version of squeezelite.
But there was a HUGE improvement in sound quality in every parameter
imaginable from deep base to staging etc. I was very surprised and now
try to track the source of this improvement and the following come to my
mind:
1. Roon has a secret sauce and converts flac to pcm and automatically
applies some DSP, upsampling, bit depth, dithering changes etc. Tonight,
I will restrict squeezelite to accept only flac and test again. If roon
is transcoding to pcm, the player will not play.
2. Going over the flac documentation
(https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_tools_flac.html) there are a
plethora of options for flac from compression level to sample rate to
what-not. I do not understand what flc flc * * rule does. Is there any
compression involved, for instance?
Because the players are identical, roon must be doing something
different at the server side. But i cannot switch to roon because it
does not support spotify or deezer. but what it does with tidal is
totally worthwhile. Pls give it a try through the 14-day trial period
and see if you agree. Meanwhile, any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
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