lumin app loses connection to minim or linn ds

[Donuk]

Thanks very much FransZappa for telling me about Esoteric. I have tried it and found that it seems reliable and so far has not lost my streamer.

I am sure that SN will not mind our broadening your original post to include those of us who share your frustration with Lumin and also use Qobuz. Perhaps better than cluttering up the site with a parallel thread.

Happily the Esoteric will accommodate Qobuz and Tidal, so it is pretty well identical to Lumin. Except - my only grumble - I wish you could change the colour to black.

I note the dates of the different applications as they stand today.

Lumin is on Version 6.1.8 dated 2019-05-13
Teac is on Version 1.0.2 dated 2018-06-12
Esoteric is on Version 1.0.3 dated 2018-06-12

Of course the version numbers relate only to issues given by the individual subcontractors. Lumin was on a much higher release number than 1.0.x in June 2018

Which sort of does not prove anything. It seems to me that there is more to it than simply Lumin having built a fault into modern versions. It's as if Esoteric ordered up a slightly different specification when it purchased from Lumin at about the same time as Teac did. Anyone with better technical knowledge able to guess what is going on?

Anyway for me it will be Esoteric for a while. Hope they do it in a darker shade sometime.

Are there any more control softwares, or sons of Lumin out there that we should be trying. Anyone?? I have tried Audionet but it keeps crashing out. Nor will it find my streamer when my VPN is switched in (the others above, will).


Donuk beautiful downtown York.

PS I have found the Fidata, although fun, to be a bit buggy: a bit unstable - the playlist disappears after a while.