Dear Volumioners,
during the past month we’ve worked hard to refactor some big parts of the code, to fix an issue which was annoying to most of you: playback of long tracks with TIDAL and QOBUZ, and them not working after being paused. Not only that, there are lot of fixes in this new release which address small bits.
Considering this is a big rewrite of some delicate internals, we would like to request a bit of help from the community to report if it works fine before releasing it. Of course, we did extensive QA on this release… So we don’t expect major problems.
This is what changes:
FIXES
Fix Pause and long tracks playback in TIDAL and QOBUZ
Faster retrieval of long playlists
Fixed translations not appearing in certain occasions
Bigger artwork on small displays
Fix for discovery crashing
To test it, simply put your device in TEST MODE (remember to disable it after the update) and let us know your findings.
Especially, do test TIDAL and QOBUZ and generally playback stability (please test without installing Fusion DSP if possible, that’s another area where we want to improve)…
In case you have problems please report:
What the issue is. What the behaviour should have been
Your system, Wifi or Wired Connection, Audio Device
Although not mentioned in the changelog above after installing this upgrade support of / interaction with chromecast devices now seems bulletproof. Good work thanks!
Fix Pause and long tracks playback in TIDAL and QOBUZ
Tested with some tracks with length between 9 and 11 minutes. Couldn’t find any longer that I could bare to listen too. playback and pause (5-25 minutes) seems to work. The playback continuous without issues.
Faster retrieval of long playlists
Wasn’t even aware that this was an issue. tested with a playlist containing 385 tracks, which loaded in 5 seconds. So I don’t consider this to be an issue. Playing a random track takes approx. 10-15 sec. for the first selection. After that every random track starts within 1-2 sec.
I do notice that the rPi has more hickups than the x86.
Fixed translations not appearing in certain occasions
This is very intermitted so impossible to test on command. I think I have observed this behavior 4 or 5 times in 2 years when loading Qobuz, using the WEB UI. But I have always hit the F5 key, to solve it.
Bigger artwork on small displays
The cover scaling seems to do it job, however the font size is not taken care of. If your height < 320 the text starts to slide over each other. (Control part does not rescale properly)
Fix for discovery crashing
Need some more details how to test this, or even what it means.
Artist discovery
This seems to become an unpredictable rolling dice. Every time I clear a library or perform a “reset album cache” It’s a random guess if artist are populated with art. Every time previous found artist turns empty after a new scan. Using the same library, same hardware.
So i’ve started with personal art containing 23 pictures and now (same library) 175 entries. After the rescan, for this test, of my (unchanged) library, again 107 are missing.
Now from a total of 871 Artists, 275 are not found. It’s getting a bit annoying.
Agreed with the comment on the album artwork here. I LOVE the bigger artwork, but it’d be nice for the album art to slide all the way to the left and leave room for text/controls for displays with a narrow height.
Flawless victory on long listening session on Tidal, however the seeker time is off on the web app versus the Tidal phone app. However when I change the song on the Tidal app while the web ui is open it seems to catch up when the song changes.
Tidal on Android through wifi6.
Running with ethernet on RPI4 8GB through USB into TOPPING D90SE
Tried playing Radio Paradise after several hours of pause. It did not work until I switched to Qobuz and back. Now I am playing Radio Paradise but the UI stays on 0:00 on the last song played on Qobuz
