Well, I bought a Mu-so Qb but how do I get it to talk to iTunes???

Posted by: prowla on 15 June 2016

Well, I've been having a bit of bother with my CD 3.5/Nait 3R and I nonchalently wandered into my local Naim dealer...

...about 10 minutes later I wandered out with a Mu-so Qb.

OK, so I got home and scratched my head a bit thinking where to put it and what PC to use iTunes with.

A couple of days late I've got a neat little Dell 3020M with a 2TB disk running Windows 10 and iTunes bolted to the bottom of a shelf and the Mu-so Qb above it.

I got the app on my iPhone and set about switching it on and getting connected. After two or three presses of the reset button and after a bit of cursing, I figured out that it wasn't going to connect to my 5Gb Wi-Fi network which I use just for media (movies to my Sky box & AppleTV), so I went for my general 2Gb network and got sounds!

(That is right - it doesn't do 5 Gb Wi-Fi, isn't it?)

I can play music from my iPhone via Bluetooth, I can connect to a Western Digital MyCloud NAS via UPnP and I can stream Naim radio.

But I can't figure out how do I get it to talk to iTunes...

Should it appear in the iTunes devices on my PC?

Should my iTunes appear in the app on my iPhone (and where)?

At the moment I see iRadio, UPnP, USB/iPod, Bluetooth, Spotify, Tidal, Analogue and Digital inputs along the top of the app.

Posted on: 15 June 2016 by prowla

Doh! I found it!

iTunes has an AirPlay button cleverly hidden in the top panel next to the volume slider.

(Now listening to Badfinger from my PC's iTunes.)

Posted on: 16 June 2016 by Adam Zielinski

I hope you will soon start feeding your Muso with higher resolution audio...

Posted on: 16 June 2016 by prowla

I've got a couple of higher res albums - yet to give them a whizz.

Posted on: 16 June 2016 by Bart
prowla posted:

I've got a couple of higher res albums - yet to give them a whizz.

You'll have to do some faffing about; convert to ALAC, and either manually change the output bit rate or use something like BitPerfect.

Posted on: 17 June 2016 by prowla

I've got some .flac and some straight .wav files.

Posted on: 17 June 2016 by Bart

iTunes on its own won't play flac. I'd go ahead and convert both to ALAC for simplicities sake.

Posted on: 19 June 2016 by PeterJ

A better idea would be to put a UPnP server on your PC.