N-Stream on iOS 8?

Posted by: gert on 17 September 2014

My ipad asks me for an upgrade to iOS8. Has anybody done this already and knows if N-Stream does work on it without any regressions?

Posted on: 17 September 2014 by Rembrand

Run“s with no problem. Also on iPhone.

Posted on: 17 September 2014 by R.K

Seems fine both iPhone and iPad

Posted on: 17 September 2014 by Mike-B

Its a loo-o-o-ng ol' download,  I'm at 6 hours remaining, so I guess its gonna get left to finish itself at bedtime

This is the first time I've used the Naim remote to play music (apart from initial set up prog stuff)

The remote get's you outta the chair, my eyes don't reach that far with that font size - its like CD & Vinyl play again 

Posted on: 17 September 2014 by Tony2011

All good here although it took a good hour for  the iPhone and hour and a half for the iPad, both via wifi, but apart  from that all back to how it was. 

Posted on: 17 September 2014 by hungryhalibut

Mine's saying 'update requested.....'

 

I must be at the end of a queue.

Posted on: 17 September 2014 by MDS

The world and his wife is likely to be trying to download the new IOS in the first day or so of release, which will likely affect download speeds.  Probably sensible to wait a couple of days or so.  I'd also be inclined to wait to see if there are any serious bugs that emerge before committing as I don't think it's easy to regress. 

Posted on: 17 September 2014 by Mike-B
Originally Posted by MDS:

The world and his wife is likely to be trying to download .................

 It changes between 6 5 6 7 6 5 hours remaining so I guess its the world & his wife & the kids & all the relatives as well

I've left it to cook overnight

Posted on: 17 September 2014 by The Meerkat
Originally Posted by Mike-B:

Its a loo-o-o-ng ol' download,  I'm at 6 hours remaining, so I guess its gonna get left to finish itself at bedtime

This is the first time I've used the Naim remote to play music (apart from initial set up prog stuff)

The remote get's you outta the chair, my eyes don't reach that far with that font size - its like CD & Vinyl play again 

That's exactly what my iPad Air said, when plugged it into the wall socket to update it. I then connected it to my iMac and updated it via iTunes, and it loaded the software in 15 minutes. However, it did warn me that it reqiured at least 6.5 GB of free space to update the software! So temporarily, I had to delete a couple of movies to free up some space. This could be the reason it's giving you 6 hours to update.

 

My broadband spead is only about 15mb.

Posted on: 18 September 2014 by Mike-B

Well that was a waste of time (other than learning to use my Naim remote while it was downloading)

nStream is unchanged (thank goodness)

Looks like the predictive text will be fun (not)

Whatever all the rest is,  ????  might never see the light of day

Posted on: 18 September 2014 by Foxman50

Why can't they include an up down left right arrow so that you can move the curser to the middle of a word. Why do apple have to be so anal, just bloody add the facility like everyone else.

 

Not sure why the revision justified a new ios number. Hardly any change. But its good that nstream continues to work as well as ever.

 

Graeme

Posted on: 18 September 2014 by Hal

I started downloading around 8PM (HKT) and now it is being installed. I will see if it's OK when iOS8 up and running on iPad.

 

On another note, my AD told me the other day that 'new' control app for muso was running fine on iOS7 during HK AV Show that I could also attest. But he didn't tell me whether new app is that gadget specific or there will be a new firmware for Unitis to provide what is additionally offered by  muso. 

Posted on: 18 September 2014 by Hal

N Stream works OK on iOS8 (old iPad). But admittedly I wish that I had not switched fom iOS6 to 8.

Posted on: 19 September 2014 by GraemeH

All working fine here.

 

G

Posted on: 19 September 2014 by GregU

Holy heck.  It took me less than 10 min.

 

 

Posted on: 19 September 2014 by GregU

But then Gage, my dog, is a bit of a tech wizard 

Posted on: 19 September 2014 by Clive B

Question

What goes: 9 hours; 1 hour; 29 mins; 28 mins; 4 hours; 9 hours; 15 mins; 8 hours etc.? (There is no hidden sequence in these numbers BTW.)

 

Answer

Apple time when downloading iOS8 to an iPhone, which seems to be even more random than Windows time! 

 

Still downloading...

Posted on: 19 September 2014 by Jude2012
Originally Posted by Clive B:

Question

What goes: 9 hours; 1 hour; 29 mins; 28 mins; 4 hours; 9 hours; 15 mins; 8 hours etc.? (There is no hidden sequence in these numbers BTW.)

 

Answer

Apple time when downloading iOS8 to an iPhone, which seems to be even more random than Windows time! 

 

Still downloading...

may be due to the 60% increase (in the UK) Internet traffic because of the global launch of iOS8, even though the adoption rate is lower than iOS 7 at 14% so far.  Two of my devices were done overnight over the last couple of days.  Two more to go.  

 

Very impressed with iOS 8. the ' Hey Siri' feature is handy as is the Shazam integratin to Siri for music discovery.

 

Jude 

 

 

Posted on: 21 September 2014 by Simon-in-Suffolk

Is it my imagination, or does anybody else think that the audio on iOS 8 sounds slightly better than before?

it was when I was streaming Spotify premium from my iOS 8 iPad via Airplay into AppleTV into Naim... The only thing that has changed is the IOS upgrade... And I can't really do an iOS 7 comparison now...

Simon

Posted on: 21 September 2014 by DavidDever

You'll see the same on Yosemite on its release - the new AVFoundation.framework shared by both iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 adds a significant amount of new high-performance audio features, in preparation for longer-word-length processing internally (finally!).

 

I suspect that agile OS X developers of premium audio applications will have already begun the refactoring process to support this; even though there is some backward compatibility with the older frameworks, the changes are fairly important for audio quality, and not an insignificant update....

Posted on: 21 September 2014 by Jude2012
I wonder if this new framework has anything to do with the rumoured new audio format that Apple are supoosed I bring out in 18 months?

Jude
Posted on: 21 September 2014 by DavidDever

Given CoreAudio's legacy limitations (and the fact that there was an audible difference in performance with Amarra / Pure Music / Fidelio players bypassing Core Audio), I suspect you're right.

 

What this means for AirPlay (which uses Apple Lossless for transmission) is anyone's guess.

 

It may kill off the add-on player software market though!

Posted on: 21 September 2014 by Jude2012
Interesting times ahead......:-)
Posted on: 21 September 2014 by George J
Originally Posted by DavidDever:

You'll see the same on Yosemite on its release - the new AVFoundation.framework shared by both iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 adds a significant amount of new high-performance audio features, in preparation for longer-word-length processing internally (finally!).

 

I suspect that agile OS X developers of premium audio applications will have already begun the refactoring process to support this; even though there is some backward compatibility with the older frameworks, the changes are fairly important for audio quality, and not an insignificant update....

My MAC Mini already has upgraded to OSX , version 10.9.4

 

Does this mean that it is already the best from Apple on the audio side.

 

I use the USB method to a DAC V1, and I find it utterly brilliant. In more than two years it has only missed a beat once, and even then only a non-audio issue. Yesterday the mouse arrow would not respond. I took it to my friendly local MAC dealer - ten minute walk - and they found that my bluetooth MAC mouse [flat sort] had had a funny moment. Using an ancient track-ball mouse restored service, and by then my MAC mouse had decided to work again!

 

Computers! You have to love them!

 

ATB from George

 

PS: I use iTunes and AIFF files, which I found usefully better than ALAC. I suppose this mirrors what some others have found between WAV and FLAC, though AIFF has the advantage in tagging over WAV, but otherwise is a very light task for the computer to send via USB, as is WAV. I have a few WAVs that I have converted to AIFF but not deleted the WAV files, and there seems to no apparent change in quality between the two file types when played consecutively ...

 

Posted on: 21 September 2014 by DavidDever
Originally Posted by George J:
Originally Posted by DavidDever:

You'll see the same on Yosemite on its release - the new AVFoundation.framework shared by both iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 adds a significant amount of new high-performance audio features, in preparation for longer-word-length processing internally (finally!).

 

I suspect that agile OS X developers of premium audio applications will have already begun the refactoring process to support this; even though there is some backward compatibility with the older frameworks, the changes are fairly important for audio quality, and not an insignificant update....

My MAC Mini already has upgraded to OSX , version 10.9.4

 

Does this mean that it is already the best from Apple on the audio side.

 

I use the USB method to a DAC V1, and I find it utterly brilliant. In more than two years it has only missed a beat once, and even then only a non-audio issue. Yesterday the mouse arrow would not respond. I took it to my friendly local MAC dealer - ten minute walk - and they found that my bluetooth MAC mouse [flat sort] had had a funny moment. Using an ancient track-ball mouse restored service, and by then my MAC mouse had decided to work again!

 

Computers! You have to love them!

 

ATB from George

 

PS: I use iTunes and AIFF files, which I found usefully better than ALAC. I suppose this mirrors what some others have found between WAV and FLAC, though AIFF has the advantage in tagging over WAV, but otherwise is a very light task for the computer to send via USB, as is WAV. I have a few WAVs that I have converted to AIFF but not deleted the WAV files, and there seems to no apparent change in quality between the two file types when played consecutively ...

 

This'd be OS X 10.10 "Yosemite", coming soon to a Mac near you.

Posted on: 21 September 2014 by George J
Originally Posted by DavidDever:
Originally Posted by George J:
Originally Posted by DavidDever:

You'll see the same on Yosemite on its release - the new AVFoundation.framework shared by both iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 adds a significant amount of new high-performance audio features, in preparation for longer-word-length processing internally (finally!).

 

I suspect that agile OS X developers of premium audio applications will have already begun the refactoring process to support this; even though there is some backward compatibility with the older frameworks, the changes are fairly important for audio quality, and not an insignificant update....

My MAC Mini already has upgraded to OSX , version 10.9.4

 

Does this mean that it is already the best from Apple on the audio side.

 

I use the USB method to a DAC V1, and I find it utterly brilliant. In more than two years it has only missed a beat once, and even then only a non-audio issue. Yesterday the mouse arrow would not respond. I took it to my friendly local MAC dealer - ten minute walk - and they found that my bluetooth MAC mouse [flat sort] had had a funny moment. Using an ancient track-ball mouse restored service, and by then my MAC mouse had decided to work again!

 

Computers! You have to love them!

 

ATB from George

 

PS: I use iTunes and AIFF files, which I found usefully better than ALAC. I suppose this mirrors what some others have found between WAV and FLAC, though AIFF has the advantage in tagging over WAV, but otherwise is a very light task for the computer to send via USB, as is WAV. I have a few WAVs that I have converted to AIFF but not deleted the WAV files, and there seems to no apparent change in quality between the two file types when played consecutively ...

 

This'd be OS X 10.10 "Yosemite", coming soon to a Mac near you.

Thanks.

 

I'll wait for the auto-prompt to update!

 

ATB from George