SQ difference between Air Play Lossless and Local FLAC playback?

[Blue566]

An Audio info button was added to the renderer overlay in release 8.3.7 but the there is no way that I know of to get the actual stream format (lossy vs lossless) being sent by the client to shairport-sync and so Audio info just reports 'PCM' as the source  format.



You could try a brute force downgrade to AirPlay 1 using the old build of shairport-sync that is still in our repo but I have no idea whether it will work or whether it causes other breakage in moOde. Definitely only try this on a test system!

Code:

sudo apt -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" --allow-downgrades install shairport-sync=3.3.8-1moode1

You will prolly also want to remove the AirPlay 2 timing module because it won't be used by AirPlay 1.

Code:

sudo apt purge nqptp

Thank you this seemed to work. 

I think it sounds better, not sure. Ideally it would be good to see the bitstream info when playing AirPlay music. \

Thanks for all the wonderful work on Moode!