[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-27 Thread callesoroe
Hi! HELP!!! I upgrades to the new official 7.9.0 from version Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - 1469851679 . It totally destroyed soundquality. It now sounds harsch and compressed. No life in the music. Going back to my previous release does not fix the problem so something must have b

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-27 Thread kidstypike
callesoroe wrote: > Hi! > > HELP!!! > > I upgrades to the new official 7.9.0 from version Logitech Media Server > Version: 7.9.0 - 1469851679 . > It totally destroyed soundquality. It now sounds harsch and compressed. > No life in the music. > > Going back to my previous release does not fix t

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-27 Thread callesoroe
kidstypike wrote: > Whilst LMS is scanning, replaygain doesn't work. It is not only that. The soundquality has decreased. Sounds harsch and compressed. It seems that the settings is the same Weird Maybe some changes in FLAC handling ?? Callesoroe Living room: Transporter, Tact RCS 2.2X di

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-27 Thread callesoroe
Installing latest 7.9.1 rescan and restarting players seems to solved have the problem. I think I stay here. A scary experience Callesoroe Living room: Transporter, Tact RCS 2.2X digital preamp, Martin Logan Vista speakers, AMPS(Icepower): Acoustic Reality Ear Enigma PLUS(PANELS), Acoustic

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-27 Thread drmatt
What bitrate is being reported for tracks when they're playing? And what are your source files? -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-27 Thread pippin
kidstypike wrote: > Whilst LMS is scanning, replaygain doesn't work. What effect does that have? Does it get louder or less loud? Wouldn't replay gain usually reduce volume? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-27 Thread Stig Nygaard
Hi I see we are both ReadyNas Ultra II users (and Danes?). >From your signature it looks like you are primarily a Tidal user. But if you by any change should have a Spotify account too, are there anything that looks familiar in the problems I'm experiencing with Spotify after upgrading to LMS79x

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-27 Thread kidstypike
pippin wrote: > What effect does that have? Does it get louder or less loud? Wouldn't > replay gain usually reduce volume? Depends on which track is playing, but yes, it usually gets louder. LMS 7.9 on a Raspberry Pi 3/piCorePlayer 3.10, playlists and LMS cache on a USB stick, 25K+ music libr

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-28 Thread drmatt
Other than replaygain, I'm not aware of any sound processing being carried out by LMS, it just ships the data to the player, so unless there's something rather custom about your install i cant see how an LMS upgrade can change anything, sq wise. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-28 Thread callesoroe
drmatt wrote: > Other than replaygain, I'm not aware of any sound processing being > carried out by LMS, it just ships the data to the player, so unless > there's something rather custom about your install i cant see how an LMS > upgrade can change anything, sq wise. Don't know what made it. But

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-28 Thread garym
callesoroe wrote: > Don't know what made it. But even TV-sound played throug transporter > sounded worse. But with 7.9.1 I am back to normal good sound quality. > I only play local FLAC files and FLAC from Tidal. Perhaps you had accidentally turned on the "bitrate limiting" in LMS settings and

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-28 Thread callesoroe
garym wrote: > Perhaps you had accidentally turned on the "bitrate limiting" in LMS > settings and it was downconverting your files to low-bitrate mp3 files > before playing. I just installed the upgrade and did not change anything. It is very strange Callesoroe Living room: Transporter,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-28 Thread Mnyb
The Spotify protocoll hanlder and Triodes old plugin have two settings that could influence sound quality . *Stream quality a range from 96k to 320k *Volume Normalisation , set this on or off ,but it uses some unknow algorithm in libspotify SQ may be better without it . Otherwise all is as usu

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-28 Thread drmatt
What do you mean "TV sound played through the transporter"...? Sounds like some thing got changed in the transporter DAC. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. --

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-29 Thread callesoroe
drmatt wrote: > What do you mean "TV sound played through the transporter"...? Sounds > like some thing got changed in the transporter DAC. As I said. I was playing music while it was scanning after the upgrade, and suddenly the sound got distorted. It was on ALL players. Both my Transporters an

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-29 Thread drmatt
Bloody weird, i would say. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. drmatt's Profile: http://for

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-29 Thread callesoroe
Mnyb wrote: > The Spotify protocoll hanlder and Triodes old plugin have two settings > that could influence sound quality . > > *Stream quality a range from 96k to 320k > > *Volume Normalisation , set this on or off ,but it uses some unknow > algorithm in libspotify SQ may be better without it

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] HELP- Upgrading to 7.9.0 official totally destroyed soundquality

2017-03-30 Thread Man in a van
This chap's got the answer :cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lJyFBkhRYk ronnie Man in a van's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43627 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthr