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Streamers and software

It's been a battle.  I have had a Bluesound Node 2i for 5 yrs.  I upgraded the power supply.  There is nothing wrong with function or sound.  I switched to Qobuz a few months ago.  I transferred my songs from amazon to Qobuz.  Qobuz works great when using the Bluetooth function.  When I want to play Qobuz thru BluOS, I am missing several thousand songs, called Favorites.  Loading and searching times are not usable.

Finally after 2 months BLUOS says they have no solution.  QOBUZ is working on a direct connect app to the streamer, but no release date.  

So, reluctantly, I started looking at a streamer.  I find several other streamers but have buggy software.

So, from what I see the Innuous pulsar mini has good software I would like to spend as little as I  can but it looks like $1-$2k?  It would be nice to have a linear power supply. Thanks for any suggestions are welcome.

Here is some I looked at.

Holo Audio Red, Ever solo, Innuous, Volumio

 

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Most here hate my take on this.  All of these streamers are just dedicated computers, mostly running Linux with the vendorʻs user interface on top of it.  Bits is bits.  

 

They love to tout this $5000 wonder versus that $3500 wonder.  And of course thereʻs always last yearʻs $7000 wonder on Audiogon for only $2800 today...

Bits is bits.   Thatʻs the beauty of digital.

 

I run Ubuntu Linux with JRiver on a miniPC I got from Amazon for $130, plus and external drive that holds my music data, for another $100 or so.  And of course, being an actual computer, I can access any streaming service I want.

Hey.  Itʻs your nickel. Iʻm saving mine.

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