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?
Run“s with no problem. Also on iPhone.
Seems fine both iPhone and iPad
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
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.
Mine's saying 'update requested.....'
I must be at the end of a queue.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
N Stream works OK on iOS8 (old iPad). But admittedly I wish that I had not switched fom iOS6 to 8.
All working fine here.
G
Holy heck. It took me less than 10 min.
But then Gage, my dog, is a bit of a tech wizard
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...
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
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
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....
Jude
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!
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 ...
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.
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