Pandora again, and now Spotify too...
For the last several years we have been streaming happily Pandora and Spotify (along with Qobuz) on an LMS (Logitech Media Server) streamer (Magna HiFi Mano Ultra), with an RME DAC, on our decent home stereo system. Recently LMS became Lyrion, and the plugins which enabled Pandora and Spotify access and streaming became inoperational with no substitutes or remedies that I can find. Qobuz is still streaming fine, but it is my understanding that perhaps due to artist royalty issues the only way to stream Pandora and Spotify in their top native resolutions is via their apps or when logged in directly to their sites via a browser.
I found no audio streamers or platforms (e.g., Roon, Jplay) which support these two services. Could not even ask the question on the Volumio site without a subscription...
First of all please correct me if I'm wrong... I'd love to be wrong here.
However, if I'm right, I am coming to the conclusion that the only way to stream these two services at their best quality (with no upsampling from USB) on our system is to stream them on a computer with a good sound card which has digital coax output which I would route to my DAC.
If the latter makes sense to anybody, can you please recommend a good sound card and basic computer, I assume a Windows desktop it can be installed in. Would love to use a Mac but am not aware of any current "open chassis" models which would accept a separate sound card.
Any thoughts and ideas are appreciated!
Cheers, Yoram
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@coppy777 , thanks for the tip. Will try it. Yes, we've been doing this with Pandora for over 15 years... |
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Thank you very much. I did not know that Qobuz had a keep playing feature. I sometimes listen to Pandora to help me find music I like and then play it on Qobuz. I found further details on this feature from Perplexity AI IN quotes below: “Qobuz Radio is a built-in “keep playing” feature that starts from a song, artist, or album and generates a playlist of similar music, usually about 30 tracks long. In practice, if you pick the last track of an album you’re in the mood for, Qobuz can use that as the starting point and then continue with related selections after it ends. It is not quite the same as a traditional station that always mixes in the same artist first; users have noted that it can jump straight to related music rather than replaying tracks from the original album. Qobuz describes it as music “centered around” your favorite artists, tracks, and albums, which matches the idea of using one track as a seed for recommendations. A simple way to use it is to open the album, choose the track you want as your starting point, and launch Radio from there. If you start from the final track, it can serve as a handoff into similar songs once that track finishes. The feature is mainly for discovery and background listening, not for preserving the exact album sequence. Because of that, the next songs may be stylistically related rather than from the same artist or album”. I will test this feature later this afternoon. Thanks again.
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