Amazon Music, Blackhole, Sound Source, HQ Player, Mac Mini....????

10 minutes ago, cab said:

1. Is there a way to get HQ player to simply play input directed to it without having to press the play button every time? Playing music to it with Amazon Music, it because rather inconvenient to have to press the play arrow every time a new song begins...???

You don't need to press play each time a new song begins. It will keep playing continuously until you stop it. At least with BlackHole what I've tested. You just get silence if the source side is not playing anything.

10 minutes ago, cab said:

2. Is there a tutorial somewhere on adding high and low pass filters? I am using Acoustat speakers which don't have normal crossovers- I would like to just send 20-100Hz to each pair of L and R subs, then have the Acoustats high passed from 100Hz on up. Later, I will get into the complexities of room correction, driver correction, and EQ but for now, would like to take this next step.

You can do simple 2nd order filter easily, or cascade multiple as you see fit. Manual explains how to enter specs for the "iir" plugin in matrix.

Thank you! I will try to locate the manual and figure out how to enter the info for the high and low pass filters.

Good to hear that I don't have to keep hitting the play arrow!

I took a look at the 38 page manual and really didn't see anything that provided enough info for me to be able to add high and low pass filters. Was hoping for some sort of step by step instructions somewhere....Or maybe if anyone has done this they could post a screen shot of the matrix page?

Thanks!

1 hour ago, cab said:

I took a look at the 38 page manual and really didn't see anything that provided enough info for me to be able to add high and low pass filters. Was hoping for some sort of step by step instructions somewhere....Or maybe if anyone has done this they could post a screen shot of the matrix page?

Thanks!

Check some of the longer HQPlayer threads on this site. 

21 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Check some of the longer HQPlayer threads on this site. 

Will do, thank you.

It seems that as soon as I have Soundsource downloaded and installed on my computer, HQ Player won't work properly. I have talked to the developers of Soundsource and they tried with no luck as well- they replied:

"I also checked with our engineering team about this behavior, and it seems that HQ Player is running in a kind of exclusive mode that blocks other software's access to audio streams it's using.

If you can disable this setting, then you might be able to get this setup to work with our software, otherwise, you may need to take HQ Player out of the picture and try to accomplish the need it is serving with something else."

Is this the case and if so, is it possible to disable this setting in HQ Player? Thanks.

22 minutes ago, cab said:

It seems that as soon as I have Soundsource downloaded and installed on my computer, HQ Player won't work properly. I have talked to the developers of Soundsource and they tried with no luck as well- they replied:

"I also checked with our engineering team about this behavior, and it seems that HQ Player is running in a kind of exclusive mode that blocks other software's access to audio streams it's using.

If you can disable this setting, then you might be able to get this setup to work with our software, otherwise, you may need to take HQ Player out of the picture and try to accomplish the need it is serving with something else."

Is this the case and if so, is it possible to disable this setting in HQ Player? Thanks.

What function does Soundsource serve in your situation?

It offers an easy to use input switching funtion, easy to implement high and low pass filters.

Just now, cab said:

It offers an easy to use input switching funtion, easy to implement high and low pass filters.

Understood. Thanks. I'm just trying to wrap my head around it all :~)

You and me both!

On 8/25/2024 at 2:19 AM, cab said:

I took a look at the 38 page manual and really didn't see anything that provided enough info for me to be able to add high and low pass filters. Was hoping for some sort of step by step instructions somewhere....Or maybe if anyone has done this they could post a screen shot of the matrix page?

There's the IIR matrix plugin explained in the manual.

After a quick lookup I found one example screenshot from my laptop, which may be enough to get the idea:

But what/how to do something depends on what you exactly want to do.

You can combine different plugins and do for example practically unlimited number of IIR and convolution items per pipeline.

6 hours ago, cab said:

Is this the case and if so, is it possible to disable this setting in HQ Player? Thanks.

Yes, and no it is not possible. There's no need to do such. And you wouldn't want to have any other application messing with the audio chain...

Thank you! That helps a bit...

Can you give me the syntax for the filter input? What variables are needed to specify a generic high pass, low pass, etc., and the correct order, punctuation, and input location?

Thanks again.

1 hour ago, cab said:

Can you give me the syntax for the filter input? What variables are needed to specify a generic high pass, low pass, etc., and the correct order, punctuation, and input location?

This is the part outlined in the manual. Please see section 7.3 regarding "iir" plugin. There are 1st and 2nd order blocks that can be defined. Multiple items can be comma separated (for higher order, etc). And you can freely mix these for example with convolution filters (WAV).

For complex cross-overs, you can use tools like Audiolense or Acourate to generate convolution filters you can load in the pipeline. Or you can combine IIR based cross-overs with convolution based room corrections.

I recommend to use the "Plot" button to view the response and verify you are getting what you are expecting. Plot function plots response on the entire pipeline with all things combined.

Thank you. Do you have a link to the manual you are referring to because the manual that I found has very little detail about setting up the filters. Thanks again!

13 hours ago, cab said:

Thank you. Do you have a link to the manual you are referring to because the manual that I found has very little detail about setting up the filters. Thanks again!

 

Go download HQP desktop. The manual is in there.

Thanks!

On 8/27/2024 at 9:37 AM, cab said:

You and me both!

 

HQPlayer is rarely the simplest nor most prepackaged way to listen to music but its the most powerful. Simple applications do things one way and reduce options in order to make things easy. HQPlayer has many ways to do things with many many settings (both filters and modulators and convolation kernels) so you should take some time, do some reading and learn the application -- you won't need to use all the complexity!

Perhaps it isn't the best option for a beginner but I can certainly appreciate the comprehensive nature of the package.

13 minutes ago, cab said:

Perhaps it isn't the best option for a beginner but I can certainly appreciate the comprehensive nature of the package.

People who stick with it, read everything in the forums, and keep asking questions until they receive the needed answers, will be very successful with it. Eventually they’ll help the next person in their position. 

4 hours ago, cab said:

Perhaps it isn't the best option for a beginner but I can certainly appreciate the comprehensive nature of the package.

We all had to start somewhere with HQPlayer. It can seem daunting at first. I promise it really isn't once you get an understanding of what you're doing and how it works. Ask when you have a question, and listen to all the filters. The best way to pick one for your listening is to listen and find what you like.

What can I say? I thought if your use case are not sophisticated - ie. straightly as a playback app with 2 channel convolution. Nothing gets simpler than hqplayer, pretty much simply choose the dac output, import a library and click play…

Let alone roon, even foobar or jriver are more daunting than hqplayer.

obviously it gets more complicated when you wanna do multi-channel, virtual cable and other tweaks 

yes and my goal is to use 6 channels with digital crossovers, eq, room and driver correction, multiple inputs, etc.