VA Ultra 2013 2013 320 FLAC
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Truth be told, playing Flac files in iTunes on Windows 7 without changing its format could be a daunting task. You'd better convert the Flac files to other formats that supported by iTunes. Check here for converting flac files.
Fluke for MAC worked perfectly. I had to download from and double click on the installer and tell it to open with installer and I had to accept installing from an untrusted source. No big deal. This is just apples ways or getting you to download everything from the app store. I has untimate converter that I use to convert my video files and it has a built in audio converter and it converted all my files no problem. One song went from 3.3 mb to 1.1 mb. I have read that the flac files are larger and then I read that they essentially zip the file to make it smaller. I would say that it makes it smaller. I am going to delete all my music from my iPhone 5 and put my music on my SG3S. This is going to save space and keep the quality of the file perfect.
Fluke does no transcoding. It gives Quicktime the FLAC codec and convinces the operating system that iTunes ought to use Quicktime (behind the scenes) for playback of those .flac files touched by set-OggS.
He was referring to when you download and install apps OS X quite often asks you if you want to allow that app permission, since it isn't from the app store. "un-trusted sources" whatever you want to call it. He wasn't referring to buying music. And those of us that do use trading communities to share live shows from our favorite bands, must keep those files downloaded, flac, shn, etc... in our share folders. To play them we either have to convert them to a format that iTunes understands, or use a different media player that doesn't allow for sorting and organizing music as well as iTunes does. The first option (converting and playing with iTunes) means we have to have 2 copies of every downloaded lossless song, the flac to share with the trading hub, and ALAC or whatever we converted it to for iTunes to play back. That means almost double the storage capacity for each song. Just because the average music listener is content with crummy sounding compressed mp3s, AACs, or whatever other compromising format they are willing to subject their music listening ears to, doesn't mean that those of us that can actually hear the difference between lossless and lossy 16-bit formats should be neglected by Apple's decision to not support more formats of audio. Some of us still listen to vinyl LPs because they sound that much better than CDs. But we also understand that digital audio is capable of greater dynamics and resolution than the terrible CDs that were so commonly used, and would like to see more support for lossless, high resolution, higher bit rate formats as well as the compressed stuff the masses are listening to. The sad thing is, that aparently the average music listener either can't tell the difference, or doesn't care. Because instead of bettering the audio quality from CDs, the norm went the other way, and decided CD quality takes up too much data, let's compress it even more into mp3s. This was all fine and good when storage prices were expensive, but they aren't anymore. We should see a trend of audio blossoming back towards the audio quality of vinyl, but it's going the other direction.
Apple AirPlay also supports HD playback, meaning devices like the Sonos One (Gen 2) and Apple Homepod mini are great for pairing with Amazon Music Unlimited. Mac users whose devices are from 2013 or later can listen to HD and Ultra HD music from the desktop app. Granted, this takes some tweaking in the audio settings. (Enter the Applications folder > Open Audio MIDI Setup.app > Update the speaker or headphone format to the highest available sample rate (24-bit/96kHz or 24-bit/192kHz.)
Version 7.01 (Aug 1, 2015)Enhancements and fixes:
- User can Disable TIDAL & Qobuz service if not needed.
Please use LUMIN app 5.01+, in TIDAL or Qobuz settings, select Disable. - Current or saved Playlist should work, even though UPnP/DLNA server IP address is changed.
- Support Qobuz online streaming integration.
Please use LUMIN app 5.0+, and input your Qobuz account on your LUMIN player.
If you don't have Qobuz account, please go to Qobuz website to open an account.
- Reduce gap between tracks for lossy audio file.
- Minor bug fix.
- Support TIDAL online streaming integration.
Please use LUMIN app 4.0+, and input your TIDAL account on your LUMIN player.
If you don't have TIDAL account, please go to TIDAL website to open an account.
- Support Custom URL on TuneIn.
- Support more Internet Radio Station on TuneIn.
- (regression) Fixed Airplay problem on LUMIN S1 caused by firmware 5.07.
- Minor bug fix.
- (regression) Fixed LUMIN S1 may miss initial 0.5 second music of a track when playback starts.
- Support file playback from LUMIN L1 using direct USB connection (if user really want to use L1 as a USB HDD)
- Display multiple Artist on the front panel when multiple Artist tags are presented.
- Fixed LUMIN S1 random subtle "pop" noise during start/pause/stop of playing DSD file.
- Fixed LUMIN S1 may miss initial 0.5 second music of a track when playback starts.
- Fixed LUMIN may disappear on network when IP address is changed.
- Fixed LUMIN USB Music Server can not read some embedded art work.
- Display LUMIN model in "About" info
- Support LUMIN S1
- Other minor bug fix.
- Added Internet Radio via TuneIn service.
Go to TuneIn website and create an account (sign in).
Browse TuneIn radio list and add some radio channels to your Favorites folder.
Using LUMIN app version 2.0.4 or newer, in LUMIN Options->Internet Radio Setting, input your TuneIn sign in.
LUMIN app "Internet Radio" tab will show the radio channel in your TuneIn Favorites list.
Tap or double tap radio channel icon to listen to the channel.
**Due to different internet radio channels use various audio codecs and streaming formats, some radio channels may not play on LUMIN. - Added LUMIN Options->Ultra-sonic Filter for DSD Playback.
On some listening systems, if there is excessive high frequency noise when playing DSD file or using PCM to DSD up-sampling, Please Enabled this settings to reduce noise.
- Fixed a playback problem at the end of some rare PCM files.
- Minor bug fix.
- Added LUMIN USB Server
User can connect a USB Harddrive or USB flash drive on LUMIN USB port.
A "LUMIN USB Server" will be available on the network.
Please use the latest LUMIN app (or other UPnP Controller, such as Kinsky or PlugPlayer) to browse "LUMIN USB Server".
User can play music file on the USB storage to the local LUMIN player, or to other UPnP Renderer (such as Linn DS or Naim streamer) on the network.
Supported audio file formats are WAV, AIFF, FLAC, ALAC, MP3, DFF, DSF and DoP files.
The "LUMIN USB Server" will be stopped and disappear when USB storage is removed from LUMIN.
**Supported filesystems are FAT32, NTFS and EXT2/3. exFAT and HFS are not supported.
**When there are multiple partitions on the USB storage, only the first partition is read. Card Reader with multiple slots is not supported. Direct USB connection (MTP) with a Smartphone is not supported.
- Fixed a Volume Control bug in generic UPnP Renderer mode
- Added 88.2kHz and 96kHz PCM to DSD realtime Up-sampling options
**please use the latest LUMIN app to set the new PCM to DSD options.
- Added DSD over PCM (DoP) via Coaxial digital output
DoP output works for .DFF, .DSF and DoP file playback, as well as in PCM to DSD Up-sampling playback.
**when DoP Output is enabled, DSD playback is disabled on Analog Output. - Fixed DoP marker bug. LUMIN now works with MinimServer DoP transcode and jRiver DoPE (DoP over Ethernet).
- Added PCM to DSD realtime Up-sampling.
For 44.1kHz and 48kHz lossless (FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAV) audio file playback, user can set Up-sampling to DSD.
44.1kHz will be upsampled to 2.822MHz 1 bit, 48kHz will be upsampled to 3.072Mhz 1 bit.
In PCM to DSD Up-sample mode, HDMI outputs DSD bitstream, Coaxial digital output is disabled. - Enhanced Playlist from 1000 tracks to 2000 tracks
- Added Invert Phase control
- Supports gapless playback with jRiver using UPnP AV SetNextAVTransportURI command
- Fixed DoP WAV/AIFF playback problem caused by firmware 2.01
- Fixed playback issue on some AIFF audio file with unusual data structure
- Supports Airplay streaming
- Fixed Front Panel Display does not stay Off when set to Off
- Fixed Digital Audio Output occasionally no sound problem
- Minor bug fix
- Added De-emphasis On/Off option for 44.1 lossless audio file playback
- Added Digital Audio Output On/Off option
- Improve support for AIFF file with illegal metadata in file header
- Minor bug fix
- Fixed Re-sampling bugs
- Initial firmware release
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