Tidal and Squeezebox


In case there are other Squeezebox users out there who were wondering about this...I can tell you it works beautifully.

Linked up my Tidal account through Squeeze server; playing perfectly over home network to Squeezebox Touch into external DAC. Just when I was about to mothball the Squeezebox, it lives again!

As an added bonus, using SqueezeCtrl Android app (by AngryGoat) i'm fully able to remote control Tidal/Squeezebox. This was the solution i've been looking for! Now I just need to find another Squeezebox Touch. 

The Squeeze was way ahead of its time.

http://wiki.ickstream.com/index.php/Open_Beta_Squeezebox_Installation

Has anyone else stumbled onto this yet?


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Showing 6 responses by daverz

Instead of another Touch, I recommend a Raspberry Pi with piCoreplayer.  Very easy to put together and set up.  And a Digi+ card if you want S/PDIF output.   

https://sites.google.com/site/picoreplayer/home
Since the LMS Tidal plugin doesn't support Master playback, you have to use something like a laptop to run the desktop Tidal app.

The only way I had to play back from my laptop was by running a long USB cable to my (non-MQA) DAC in my equipment rack.  I was disconcerted to find that this sounded sort of billowy, softened, and lacking in image specificity compared to input from my RPi.    


A Raspberry Pi with current piCorePlayer supports native DSD if your DAC does.  You need to select "Native/DoP DSD Squeezelite" in the web interface.

https://www.picoreplayer.org/