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J’ai beaucoup cherché l’application idéale pour piloter mon excellent lecteur réseau iEast. Il y’en a de très bonnes dont celle tout à fait compatible de Marantz. Je restais cependant avec un problème : le gapless pris en charge ni par iEast ni par les autres « remote controllers ». Puis le hasard de mes recherches me font trouver la présente application , excellente comme je l’écris en tête de cette appréciation SAUF que régulièrement il y a interruption avec la mention que le convertisseur ne répond pas. Il faut alors retourner vers « play to » et procéder à un rafraîchissement et choisir à nouveau ledit « convertisseur ». Vraiment dommage mais il s’agit peut-être d’un réglage à effectuer de ma part ?? Sinon mérite le maximum d’étoiles.

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Latest app update was a bug fix? Not at all. Truth is: what was working fine previously has become a problem lately. Latest bug fixes didn’t solve those issues at all, but only made them worse. I’m talking about the flaky Google Cast support. Initially when I bought this app all went fine, but currently it’s truly frustrating. Am I the only one who gets disappointed because of this? Nowadays Chromecasting TIDAL HIFI playlists to display songs and/or videos on my HDTV through my HDMI compatible high-end hifi AV Receiver isn’t that exciting anymore: Google Cast transmission of TIDAL HIFI content interrupts suddenly after playing about an average of 1 hour (or even less). It simply quits without warning, turning lossless quality audio listening pleasure into creepy silence (yes, to me, being a music-o-holic / passionate audiophile, sudden lasting silence is an unpleasant experience. Rather creepy. Music has always been my life, it still is and always will be. The day that it isn’t anymore, is the day that I die). A known problem when you’re using the official TIDAL app itself (which has a terrible Chromecast support, I even never knew it otherwise... and worse: instead of fixing this major issue properly, the only thing I receive from TIDAL are app updates with more and more fancy features that are draining the powerful hardware resources of my latest iPad. Unacceptable! TIDAL by itself has become such a heavyweight app that it even crashes after an average of 10-15 minutes AirPlay audio use, I don’t even try Chromecast anymore or I’m getting nervous as f*** during my quest for superior quality entertainment! But while I was looking for a fix or a temporary bypass myself (because TIDAL support is practically nonexistent just like the “support” that the vast majority of app developers claim to provide) there’s currently a compromising solution that I found out: using one of my laptops with latest Linux Mint OS installed. Running a forked-daapd server on a Linux machine to use as (a software) AirPlay solution runs much smoother than using authorized AirPlay devices from even the most reliable hifi brands like DENON (my default AirPlay device ànd preference, even my recommendation for true audiophiles). So running a forked-daapd server on Linux to use it as AirPlay solution helps the currently exaggeratedly resource-hogging ànd everlasting crashing TIDAL app for iPads running more stable for now. A free opensource solution works definitely better than any expensive authorized AirPlay device from well-known manufacturers. And there’s more: Using the web player at the TIDAL website using Mozilla Firefox for Linux doesn’t crash at all and can even last for days. That doesn’t even require the simultaneous use of my iPad. So once again it’s hereby proven: Hail GNU/Linux, hail open source software and its developers! You cannot convince me that there’s a better operating system with more capabilities. But let’s stick to the main issue here, which happens on an up-to-date Apple iPad device: it’s on iPad that this app has become more and more disappointing and like I already mentioned: latest AppStore updates were (or better: should be and claim to be) bug fixes. I’m sorry, maybe I missed the point or something because I haven’t discovered any decent troubleshooting since then, so the developers should better make themselves more clear about what exactly they’ve (trying to) fix or solve. Because as far as I know: the biggest issue, that is Google Cast (Chromecast) incompatibility, hasn’t got any significant attention ever since, even though it should deserve ultimate priority. Because ask yourself: Where’s the added value that this app once provided me? Because the reason why I bought it makes currently no sense anymore. That reason was: getting rid of TIDAL HIFI app crashes by using a much better lightweight third party app instead (that HAD absolutely fabulous Chromecast support but that didn’t last long unfortunately. Question is still why). I’m afraid that the purchase of this app is a waste of money after all. Let’s see if (near) future app updates will be finally focused on solving the current — major — issue, which is Google Cast / Chromecast related. Forget minor fixes for trivial issues, that’s not important for now. Neither are updates with fancy or even handy new features. That can wait. Hopefully this essay helps. I’m looking forward to a real solution that fixes what really went wrong! M.

Wishes : having a history of previous searching like in native Tidal app. When you open app have an immediate acces to the prefered service like Tidal.

Program is great and easy to use. Works as a charm with the new meridian 210 stream, and is the best app for this device. Would be great if embedded cover art would be visible not only on the played track but also on the browse selection screens. Keep up the good work !

This app is used as a controller to stream (also) high resolution music files from a NAS server to a DAC — PCM up to 24-192 resolution. It could use some more flexibility when composing playlists, but since I use it mainly to listen to complete albums this is not a problem. It handles a collection of well over 30,000 songs without problems, gapless playing works well. Sometimes the cover artwork is not transmitted but I'm not sure the problem lies with the app. Recommended: quality/price is excellent, a very good product.