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It’s pretty cool now that with AppleTV 4K 3rd Gen only, I can play Apple Music high-res and link some Musiccast 20s to my AVR and the HDMI is sending LPCM to AVR processor and out to the speakers at what ever the max resolution the lossless file is. Usually either 16/44 or 24/96. With classical, rarely 24/192.

Rogue Amoeba is reporting Airfoil is affected by a HomePod OS 27 bug. Rogue Amoeba says the update prevents Airfoil’s AirPlay streams from playing on HomePods and Apple TVs.

Roon works in a similar way, going around the Apple audio chip to send Airplay 1 out (14/44 lossless) to multiple speakers. (Airplay 2 devices have to accept Airplay 1 as lossless.)

Will Roon have the same issues with this Apple OS 27 update bug?

Rouge Amoeba says just don't update to 27 on those AirPlay devices (I had not planed to since I like to wait for later version where bugs like this, or worse, are fixed.) It continues to contact Apple to no avail (normal) but hopes Apple will fix it soon.

Discovered Jazzfuel web site via this London performing arts school FB group. A bit clunky to actually use links but — they post new things to it so, one way to stay up on it. Anyhow…

https://www.facebook.com/JazzfuelDiscover

Straight to the web site:

https://jazzfuel.com

Great also for those new to it to discover more. I found a bunch of the documentaries and movies they mentioned in one post on kanopy (free stream via library in USA) and YouTube (with ads).

I am sure many here know of it already but, for those who do not, they might like to explore it. I found it interesting. But there is a lot to explore on it.

It seems clear now that Apple has a strategy to make Music more like the app store. Apple's API for Music is the most open of all the streaming services. Leading to a small explosion of specialized Music apps for playback of Music like Lysoniq, Sessionography, that app that is nothing but album covers, etc. I don't think the Apple Music app will be going away but, something is up for sure! Apple Classical was the in house test of this idea.

The non beta is now available on the App Store. I have just begun exploring it. Trying to figure out how to best use it.

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I would like to hear more about how people use this? Is there a minimum percent between the loan and your returns that should be considered? I probably worded that all wrong. But, anything. Tips on when, where, and how to do this.

Musiccast but competing with KEF, etc.

Sorry, this is the only link I have. If it does not work, search for other access on your own.

Just wanted to alert Apple Music/Apple Classical subscribers here about r/Apple_Classical. It is pretty thin (or what ever you call not having nearly half a million, like here) but, if we could get more Apple Classical subscribers on it, it might be useful. If we discover nice things about Apple Classical (the app), we can discuss it more broadly there. Which is better than here.

Let’s not debate the merits of the service or alternatives here please. That was not the purpose of this post. Thanks

The reliance on streaming software algorithms to expose listeners to music, like Apple Music does, is unsustainable over time or ineffective. Better to also discover the new-to-you artists and songs via Internet radio stations, bands, festivals, concerts (Apple Music even helps with that), etc. I use Shazam to add songs to Apple Music playlists as well as playlists on Apple Music from various recorded sources. Then explore each artist and genre in Apple Music. Then I read the bio in Apple Music as it mentions influences and other artists like them. Then I search in Apple Music for those.

The reliance on streaming software algorithms to expose listeners to music is unsustainable over time or ineffective. Better to discover via Internet radio stations, bands, festivals, concerts, etc. I use Shazam to grab songs to playlists from various recorded sources. Then explore each artist and genre. Read the bio as it mentions influences and others like them. It is a journey of broad musical exploration. Not an assault on a fortification.

Still disappointed all these years with Yamaha killing manual entry of internet radio stations.

Compared to the competition, this is very disappointing.

Even Apple, Apple, got the message and brought it back (on macOS Apple Music).

WiiM totally nails it. Open Network Stream then save as a Preset (favorite).

Go here once, enter URL, set as favorite, done. Flawless. But only an example of simplicity as WiiM app does not work on Yamaha. Duh.

WiiM is actually acting like a DLNA device to make it happen. Yamaha could do the same.

Very disappointed in Yamaha.

”To be direct: Yamaha has designed the MusicCast system so that it is impossible for the speaker to have total, standalone control over a custom stream URL.

Here is the exact technical reality:

 Closed Ecosystem: The speaker's standalone "Net Radio" firmware only connects to one database: airable. Yamaha provides no interface—in the app, on the hardware, or via local web management—to add, edit, or save a personal URL into the speaker's internal memory.

 No Manual Overrides: The speaker cannot store an arbitrary web address to fetch independently via physical buttons, schedules, or direct commands without an external trigger.

 The Only Way: To hear a custom, non-airable lossless URL, an external source (a UPnP trigger, a local media server, or AirPlay) must initiate the session.

If total standalone control with zero outside tools is a non-negotiable requirement, the MusicCast 20 hardware cannot do it.”

Not Spotify, not Tidal, not Apple, not Deezer, not Qobuz, not YouTube, not Pandora, etc. Each has some good stuff and problems or technical limitations for some users. We could complain about any of them. UI, UX, features, cost, extras or lack of them, audio quality, the way “connect“ works, or how we are stupid and should just buy songs or rip CDs and use a home server, yakety yack.

Advice here is like the wind. Do the free trials, then pick what works best for you. Accept the limitations or agree with the advantages. Then take the time to learn it.

How do I tell my macOS Apple Music Smart Playlist for classical CDs I have ripped to my library (né iTunes), to shuffle works by artists works and not songs? So if it identifies, for example a Bach concerto to play, it plays all of it. Not just one song from it. Some classical is just one song and, it can mix those in too but, most are works with movements.

Here is my home “station” if anyone would like to do the same using rules. It is a great way to play all your CDs in random sequence but not too often. Albeit, it is just song to song changing composer each time. Until I find an answer…

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This at home “station” is great as I can hear my music on a 90 day cycle of thousands of classical CDs but randomly. For pop, Jazz, rock, etc. it is fine but for classical, I really do not want to be hopping around so much from composer to composer and song to song. I want to play the full Bach work, then move on the full Glass, full Biber, et al. Three months or more later, repeat.

If anyone has any other rule to add, I would love to hear it too. For the life of me, I cannot get non opera vocals out (easily). I think that Cloud Status might not matter either as Kind is ALAC prevents HLS streams from jumping into the rip rules.

Smart Playlist rules in Apple Music on macOS (ALAC files I own) cannot group or select by multi-track Work, Movement, or Symphony.

Smart Playlist rules operate at the individual track level or the entire album level.

Any tricks to overcome this one song shuffle? Shuffle but when playing a Bach work from X CD, play all the movements, not just one random song from the work.

This would be akin to seeing the whole series of a TV show, then next whole series of a show, instead of random episodes of many TV series in a long string.

Still random but, the entire work by composer then next entire work by composer.

Note: Albums often contain more than one work by more than one composer so, by album does not work plus multi disc collections, etc.

An interesting read.

https://apple.news/A497Kax0vS1az--8Oq_E7dA

If this link does not work, you will have to just go and find it on your own at Money. It was free to me on Apple News, which I do not pay for.