As for the firmware, it was improved without uploading to A26. However, I made the same corrections in R26 and it works there. Unfortunately, I couldn't check the operation of the A26 because I have an R26 and both streamers have different firmware. It's very strange that it works for some...

I have good news, the developers managed to implement DSD into the renderer. Now you have to wait one to two months until the Debian developer releases the update package. As soon as it appears, I will try to provide the updated firmware

Everything is in the link to GitHub, below HOWTO is my conversation with the author and the described problem of use in my case of MacBook. You need to use any Linux distribution installed on your computer or a virtual machine on macOS. MacOS, despite its similarities, is not Linux.

Firmware For A26 there are a few posts earlier HERE

Just kidding too. I don't need Quoboz at all. I prefer to listen to music on vinyl, but since I bought the R26 the gap between digital and analog has blurred. I wanted a device as close to analog equipment as possible and I was not disappointed. I only listen in NOS mode without any upsampling...

I use Tidal, maybe I would use Quoboz but it is not available in my country. Discrimination! (yuck) However, I don't have an Android tablet or phone, so I invited my neighbor for coffee. We listened to the music, tested the app and the results are visible. Now you try:deadhorse: Below are links...

I downloaded both firmwares and it looks good so I will try to do that. In this case, I don't need to have physical devices, so I guess it will work.

The most important difference is that in Roon you can set the priority for playing MQA files. In Tidal Connect you cannot decide whether you are playing a file with or without MQA. In Roon it is possible. Personally, I prefer without MQA, I feel like there is a lack of detail, especially at the...

Spotify and Tidal are streaming services. Spotify offers the worst quality, Tidal offers HiRes files but is very criticized for MQA. Roon, on the other hand, is a local file server and supports streaming services such as Tidal, Quobuz, Kkbox and Dropbox. Of course, in addition to the Roon...

I was challenged by @Keysee to improve Tidal Connect on Android devices. I put in some time and finally I can say, I DID IT! I tested on a tablet with Android 10.0 and a phone with the latest TIDAL Music: HiFi, Playlists 2.107.0 APK and it works without any problems. Below is the link to the...

I don't know the password, but I do it by inserting SSH key to R26. I found a description of how to do it HERE

Gustarender 1v43 is just a name presented on the network. In fact, each device may have a different operating system. Just as the A26 has a different partitioning method, the same may be true for the AH90. It is not possible to download firmware for the AH90, so I cannot compare. In my opinion...

As promised, I am providing a link to the improved 1v43 firmware. R26_1v43_no_random_MAC.zip This is the original firmware in which I disabled random MAC. If someone uses Roon, after uploading to R26 you need to re-enable R26 in Roon Audio To the question: why did they enable random MAC? I...

That's true, since firmware 1.43 they added random MAC. I didn't even notice it, but I connected via SSH and managed to turn it off. I will try to share the corrected firmware without random MAC tomorrow.

1. If you have multimode modules, you must use multimode cables (OM3 is an aqua jacket or OM4 is an violet jacket). Yellow cables are singlemode. You can't use a multimode transceiver on single mode fiber optical cable. Large optical loss will occur if a multimode transceiver is connected with...

There are more and more opinions about stuttering, not always correct ones. I wrote about this problem HERE, but I will write again. The reason why playback stuttering is the decoder in the R26 streamer. Some FLAC files with high bitrate and specific compression take up 100% of the CPU and...

I have now installed the old version 2.64.2 of Tidal (LINK HERE) on the latest Samsung S23+ and it works without any problems with the latest firmware 1.43. My previous versions of FW that included Tidal Connect used the same source as FW 1.43, so they should probably work as well. The only...

Tidal on Android requires special certificates and processing them through Gustard takes a long time and costs a lot, so only Apple hardware remains.

I only use Roon, so DSD works natively without any changes. Unfortunately there are no updates in GMediaRenderer so DSD over UPnP will still not work

I uploaded firmware 1v43 and Tidal Connect works without any problems. In the TIDAL app it is seen as Gustard R26. Spotify also works but a Premium account is required. In the Spotify application it is seen as raspotify (Gustarender-1v43). Roon also works but you need to re-add R26 in your audio...

I unpacked this firmware and it looks like Spotify and Tidal Connect support have been added. The Raspotify project was used to support Spotify and ifi_tidal-release was used to support Tidal. Both projects from GitHub. When viewing system files, both services are enabled. Today I will upload...

Hi Ray79, I described this problem HERE. Unfortunately, nothing has changed to this day.

Streamer A26 has a different partitioning system than R26. I'm not sure if it will work on the R26 firmware, he can try. If it doesn't work, he can upload the original to A26. Unfortunately, to add TIDAL to the A26 firmware, I would have to physically have the device at home.

There is a FIX in the description but they actually changed the UPnP Media Renderer. Instead of upmpdcli based on MPD it is now GMediaRender. I described it in this post. It's hard to say what effect this has on the sound, because it's a little known project. More important is the stability and...

Unofficial firmware version 1.42 with TIDAL Connect support but with Roon Bridge disabled ready for download. I wrote about why with disabled Roon support HERE R26_Release_1v42_+Tidal_-Roon.zip (787MB)