This may have been mentioned already and is not really a direct answer to your question; but, it may address your stated frustrations:
https://youtu.be/u6Xz-P_N_4U
I think the question you ask is very Timely, interesting, and important. Right now, software development is lagging behind in a protean world of incredible music services leaving our gleaming electronic jewels underutilized.
Please! I just want a perfect noiseless streamer that will send all the music that out there to my favorite dac using software that just works.
I don’t want to have to go through a complex workaround just to play a music file.
I don’t want to buy your dac.
I sure don’t want to put red book cds on your machine when a 24/192 (or more over killed) version of just about any cd ever released is out there almost free.
Maybe auralic is closest to getting it right. But they can’t stream the world of music that’s on Amazon.
I’m here waiting. Playing lots of records. Waiting.
https://youtu.be/u6Xz-P_N_4U
I think the question you ask is very Timely, interesting, and important. Right now, software development is lagging behind in a protean world of incredible music services leaving our gleaming electronic jewels underutilized.
Please! I just want a perfect noiseless streamer that will send all the music that out there to my favorite dac using software that just works.
I don’t want to have to go through a complex workaround just to play a music file.
I don’t want to buy your dac.
I sure don’t want to put red book cds on your machine when a 24/192 (or more over killed) version of just about any cd ever released is out there almost free.
Maybe auralic is closest to getting it right. But they can’t stream the world of music that’s on Amazon.
I’m here waiting. Playing lots of records. Waiting.