Spotify Not Working

Boring post. My Spotify works. I also listen to my Serve..or cds on my Lite.

Sometimes even vinyl.

David

Really?

Are you certain your CD user license applies to your car CDP, or any other CDP you might use? Did you kill all apps, get the latest updates, and update your firmware? Can your CDP see your ipad or your "smart"phone?  Have you reset your router before attempting to play your CD? Did you download and read the pdf regarding CD use? Is your album art showing?

Yes - really!

 just understandable paranoia that the CD555 mech is reaching the end of it's finite life.....

$ouch

How are hi-res media sounding on a CD555?

Hi John.

Funny you should mention, I have been trying like you to upload a string of latest versions on mine too to no avail, I must call software support. To people who claim it has reached its finite end of life, this could easily be said about a range of Naim vintage speakers still making wonderful music in Naimees listening rooms. Am I worried........... Best Peter

That's very strange, John.  I've been listening to Spotify on my Cyrus CD8X all day.  Have you got the latest firmware?  Are you sure RFI is not to blame for your system failing?  I recommend installing ferrets on....well almost anything if it's not working properly.  Adding a switch to your network might also help.  If all else fails, just get an LP12; ripping Slopify to vinyl is the way forward in my view.

They look cute but not sure they'll solve the problem.

You must be referring to original 16 bit transfers onto CD before the 'mp3 compression brigade' got to work on them to re-sell one's fave albums again and again, allegedly sounding better in HD.

Wake up. It's a marketing con. New material in HD is nothing special either, from what I've heard.

The glory days of (generally all) well recorded popular music are gone. Sad but true. The music industry are not interested in satisfying a tiny percentage of audiophiles. The mp3 player is king.

John.

Digital audio in the shape of the CD player was a fantastic technological innovation over thirty years ago. But the really clever thing was that Joe Blow could bring home this digital music replay marvel, sick a couple of RCA plugs up its chuff, and .......... job done. Music flowed reliably forth. No special knowledge required.

Fast forward to the next great leap forward in digital music replay in the home, and we still have a 'not properly sorted cake and arse party', judging by the content of the 'Screaming Audio' section of this forum.

It is unfortunately in the nature of computers and the internet to be cranky and unreliable. Hi-Fi music replay in the home for the 21st century deserves something better.

John.

+1 Couldn't agree more!

It's only unreliable when put in the hands of people who, eh, how to say it polite, do not have too much experience with the stuff. Usually following a manual will do the trick though.

Really, I just do not understand it. It's hardly rocket science. And no, I do not have any background in computers at all. 

The benefits of streaming and computer based audio compared to any physical media are massive off course. No need to list them I guess?

They can be cranky, more so with business applications I find, but it's also remarkable how often the real problem with the computer, is thanks to the mushy bit between the keyboard and the chair.  In the home I have a PC which has no responsibilities beyond streaming music and playing the odd decent film from Netflix found among the pile of complete trash.  It's never crashed, not once, nor been switched off and on again in the year and a half I've owned it....apart from once when I hit shut down by mistake.  I am in no doubt this news will not sway the views above, but just saying, if not cluttered up by installing all kinds of unnecessary rubbish, and left optimized for a particular task, they will actually run without being cranky at all.  And my PC doesn't even have and Apple badge on it.

+1, buy decent kit, set it up properly, protect it from viruses and leave it alone and you should be able to forget about it, its when the carbon units get involved that things go pear shaped.  My server was plugged in, set up and its not been swtiched off since and it works first time every time

                     Recipe for Totally Aggro-free Digital Music.

Level of Expertise Required - Minimal :-

1 Mac Mini (or similar) with HD storage.

1 copy of iTunes.

1 USB DAC.

1 Hi-fi system.

1 iPad (or similar) with iTunes Remote installed (if preferred but not essential).

Copies to taste of ripped/shredded/downloaded/hi-def/med-def/low/def music.

Connect up with cables. Play. Listen and enjoy. 

(Note: recipe can be made more difficult with the additions of other kit or software but this requires a higher level of computeryness expertise).

Z ... Locate Stanley knife to open the hermetically sealed plastic wrap.

Phil