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Adding streaming services to a streamer via usb

Is there a way to add streaming services to a streamer that are not native to the streamer?  Many streamers don't come with native support of some streaming services, in my case Qobuz or Amazon Music.  Is there a way to add those services to a usb drive, connected to the streamer, so that I can access them "natively", without having to Airplay the content at a lower resolution?

My streamer is a ModWright modded Oppo Sonica. 

 

Thank you,

cdtd
lanx0003
676 posts
 

Since Sonica is a DLNA compliant renderer, I believe you can stream music through DLNA, which should support 24/up to 192 hi-res from Qobuz. Another option is to buy a genuine Lightning to AV adapter and physically connect the iPhone to stream music from Qobuz through the USB port.  However, in which case, you are using iphone as your streamer and Sonica as your DAC.

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fuzztone
5,502 posts
 

No. There are workarounds for a few, device dependant.

Best luck with UPnP.

erik_squires
15,805 posts
 

The iFi Zen stream will do this.

cdtd OP
24 posts
 

Looks like I'm going to try the hardwired route and see what happens.  

I might throw Volumio on a usb drive and see what happens but it appears Volumio might actually need to be tied to a cpu.  I thought I read somewhere a while back about a third-party app for the iphone that would bypass the dac software and output hi-res but I can't find that either.

Thanks for the replies. 

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