MinimServer, MinimStreamer, and HQPlayer Desktop

[Newk Yuler]

(10-05-2019 18:46)simoncn Wrote:  To answer your question, MinimServer and MinimStreamer stream music to a UPnP/DLNA renderer using the HTTP protocol. It would be possible to write software that runs on the same machine as MinimServer/MinimStreamer and consumes a transcoded HTTP stream from the same URL that is used by a UPnP/DLNA renderer. This would use HTTP as the streaming protocol but the stream would be routed to the local host instead of going across the network. Does HQPlayer have the capability to consume an HTTP stream?

Although this is theoretically possible, I share rompolompo's opinion about the value of doing it.

That looks like what I'm asking it to do. I need to connect locally (in the same computer) instead of routing through a network. It would be awesome if it had a feature that simply connects locally.

HQPlayer will play HTTP internet streams by playlist links as long as the stream is a format it processes (like FLAC as is common with internet radio sources that offer support for streams better than high bitrate MP3 or AAC). So if I understand all this correctly it will see what MinimServer routes to it by HTTP as long as it's in a format it processes.

It's understood that converting MP3 to FLAC does nothing for improving audio quality. The value of transcoding HTTP streaming MP3 to FLAC is to get it into HQPlayer in a format it recognizes (it doesn't do lossy codecs).

HQPlayer has very well designed resampling filters that bypass possibly limited or inferior hardware resampling filters inside the DACs. The point being HQPlayer's excellent processes create extraordinarily improved potential in sound quality in DACs. The player is capable of transcoding between PCM and DSD in high end resolutions. It will send intensive processing to CUDA processors in Nvidia video cards. An extensive set of extraordinary features is why HQPlayer Desktop in a brand new version 4 costs $250 USD and there are many audiophiles using it. There is a huge support thread at Audiophile Style (what use to be Computer Audiophile).

https://www.signalyst.com/consumer.html

Resampling filters:

14 linear phase
7 minimum phase
3 impulse optimal
3 closed form

Dithers and noise-shapers:

4 dithers
4 noise shapers

Delta-Sigma conversion:

8 modulators
24 oversampling filters (64x - 1024x)
Direct rate conversions
Digital volume control
Convolution engine
Routing and mixing

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I just want to get high bitrate MP3 internet radio streams into HQPlayer and I have to find a roundabout way to do it because it doesn't natively support lossy codecs. Because I listen to ambient MP3 streaming internet radio a lot of the time that isn't available in FLAC. (DI.FM Premium, SomaFM)

I take it that I can do it with MinimServer/Streamer but I have to route it through Ethernet UPnP-DLNA to a rendering point that consists of a second computer running HQPlayer. Instead of simply routing MinimServer straight into HQPlayer running in the same computer. Because MinimServer is strictly a UPnP-DLNA routing tool. Right? I'm probably not going to all the extra trouble and expense to get it working but I do appreciate that MinimStreamer's HTTP intercept and transcoding almost does what I need it to do.