Just to make sure I’m not misunderstanding… one uses the iOS app to tell the Strata to ‘tune’ to an internet radio station in the TuneIn or iHeartRadio directory. i.e., you’re not actually streaming from the iOS device to Strata…
Thanks!
Brian
Just to make sure I’m not misunderstanding… one uses the iOS app to tell the Strata to ‘tune’ to an internet radio station in the TuneIn or iHeartRadio directory. i.e., you’re not actually streaming from the iOS device to Strata…
Thanks!
Brian
Yes, you could put it that way. Essentially the radio’s servers are sending the music to Strata directly. If you were to put on a station and turn off your phone, it would continue to play. Your phone is just simply the remote in this case.
Thanks! I thought so, phone/tablet acts like a remote.
Brian
Late to the game…struggling a bit with using Qobuz and trying to enjoy its features, whilst also enjoying the new stereo.
I recently purchased the Stellar Strata (Enjoying it very much!), but there’s a disconnect going on with either the PS Connect or the Qobuz service. I created the Qobuz account on our office iMac, but we use my wife’s iPad for streaming to the amp. We play music, but we can’t favorite music or create or add-to playlists. Can you help the helpless here? Should I be using MUZO, or some other interface, and delete the PS Connect app from the iPad.
A friendly suggestion…might I suggest too that a loose instruction page be slipped into the amp’s instruction pamphlet for future purchasers?
Thank you in advance for your input.
Kevan
Glad you’re enjoying it thus far! There are a few ways to go about it. If you want to favorite an artist, go to said artist, and there will be a heart in the first section when you click on them. A similar deal if you want to favorite an album as well. Then if you want to add a track to a playlist, go to that track and there is a little icon to the right of the track title that looks like a circle with 3 dots inside. This will give you option to favorite that specific track or add to playlist.
Thanks, James, but I think I’ve failed to explain our current situation. Lemme try again on what’s going on with using our iPad. I am able to to access Qobuz, I can do a search, let’s say ‘The Beatles’, I can favorite the band as you mentioned, but I can’t add one of their songs to an existing playlist, nor can I create a ‘60’s Music’ playlist, not with the iPad. Oh, I can retreat upstairs to the home office iMac and do it via Qobuz’s website, but not in the living room with the iPad.
So far, I have created two playlists using our iMac, but they aren’t shown on the iPad when I wish to add a song to either of them. Oh…I can play one of either playlists, if I chose, they are listed in the playlist section, I just can’t manage them. So as it stands, I have partial use. I can play, I just can’t create or manage them. Not on the iPad.
Further, I would hope I could simply add a song to a playlist upon hearing it for the first time, per let’s say a Qobuz listing of a song I’ve never heard before, for example, and not have to seek out the performer, favorite them, before moving on to the song I liked.
If screen prints would help better show my situation, I’m glad to offer them.
Thanks for your patience.
K
Gotcha. Sorry for my confusion. I’m not aware of any way you’re able to update playlists like this. From my experience, the PS Connect App and Muzo are somewhat limited in this way. Unless I’m missing something, but I’ve spent quite a while with the app and haven’t been able to find a way. Sorry I can’t help much here Kevan.
Okay, James, thanks. I’m coming from being a longtime Apple Music lover where the user interface is made extremely easy, granted the file quality is what it is. But, oh, boy…this is a twist for me. Maybe Qobuz has a suggestion.
K
Sadly, this is kind of the state of all streamers / digital integrateds. There are 2 schools of thought:
Use the native interface. Examples being, Spotify (Spotify Connect), Tidal (Tidal Connect), iTunes (Airplay), YouTube Music (Google Cast). Notice Qobuz, my service of choice, has no option here which is one reason I use Roon (which is it’s own whole set of advantages / disadvantages)
The advantage of native apps is you are always in the native application so you have full functionality. The disadvantage is that your gear has to match the streaming service and very few manufacturers do this for more than Spotify. Although those that do it well are NAD (BlueOS), Naim, maybe Cambridge Audio… probably a few I’m leaving off.
The manufacturer supports 1 streaming protocol but supports a handful of services in their application. Advantage, they don’t need to implement more than 1 streaming “thing” on the gear but they must update the app with more functionality. This is the difference between pulling software from the app store or having to push firmware into your gear (app store being easier). Disadvantage is you’re now beholden to the app developer to support all the native features of the service you’re using (rarely happens). Another disadvantage is that some streaming providers, like Spotify, will not let you control the service from inside another app so they force their connected device protocol (Spotify Connect) on the gear. This leads to a mixed environment of “do I need to be in my gear’s app or the streaming app?” Examples of manufactures doing this are Linn, Lumin, Sonos, Auralic, and PS Audio (especially Strata, Bridge in DSD supports a varied set of protocols/services so it’s kind of a nice mix where some is native app and some requires you use the PS app).
It’s messy but it’s a shared “problem” every manufacturer is having to deal with and the problem isn’t getting smaller as more services come online and existing services implement more and more features within their apps. There are little audio “ecosystems” being built and it becomes more important to match the ecosystem with the service you use.
well… my opinion anyway.