[Gr8h8m]

Got it, very good point, it makes perfect sense, thank you. So in which scenario Poly’s Hot Spot mode would be in its best use?

As far as playing back from the SD card, I would love to make an identical copy of my Roon library (music library, playlists, favorites, etc.) to the SD card and control via Glider. However, I tested it by an album in FLAC format and an album in AIFF. All metadata in the AIFF album was completely not recognized by Poly’s MPD, but the FLAC album works fine (except for a wrong album artwork, not sure if it comes from Glider). All metadata are embedded in each of my music files (I used Metadastics app to edit metadata before I import albums in my library on a NAS that runs Roon). When I run MinimServer on the NAS and use Glider on the control end, all metadata works fine. I am not sure why the AIFF format doesn’t work with the Poly MPD + Glider. I do not know much about MPD, is there any good article or YouTube video out there that explains step by step on how to set up the SD card playback on Poly?
Thanks

Poly uses a version of MPD that's now a few years out of date and Chord have been slow to update. MPD is open source and continuously updated with bug fixes and new features. Resolving AIFF tagging issues is one such bug fix. Album art is another. Homesite is musicpd.org

 

[FIOC]

Poly uses a version of MPD that's now a few years out of date and Chord have been slow to update. MPD is open source and continuously updated with bug fixes and new features. Resolving AIFF tagging issues is one such bug fix. Album art is another. Homesite is musicpd.org

Thanks! So I have to wait until Chord to update Poly’s MPD. Do you know if it is possible to install MinimServer in Poly instead? That is the best and free UPnP server software I had ever used before I bite the bullet and paid for Roon. MPD seems to have limitations. Thanks.

 

[PrittiPoly]

Thanks! So I have to wait until Chord to update Poly’s MPD. Do you know if it is possible to install MinimServer in Poly instead? That is the best and free UPnP server software I had ever used before I bite the bullet and paid for Roon. MPD seems to have limitations. Thanks.

Not sure I understand your post. MPD is not a UPnP server. Poly already has a UPnP server called MiniDLNA which may not be as good as MinimServer but seems to work fine with mconnect or 8player.

 

[TrollmannKatz]

Roon is biggest audiophile scam in history and 100% waste of money. Cause of the big hit sound quality wise. Even sbc bluetooth surpass easily poisoned degenerated roon streams.

Best Way: Stay with mojopoly on mpd, use somekind of mpd app like m.a.l.p. that is direct 100% bit perfect stream.

 

[rwelles]

Roon is biggest audiophile scam in history and 100% waste of money. Cause of the big hit sound quality wise. Even sbc bluetooth surpass easily poisoned degenerated roon streams.

Source?

 

[JedG]

Roon is biggest audiophile scam in history and 100% waste of money. Cause of the big hit sound quality wise. Even sbc bluetooth surpass easily poisoned degenerated roon streams.

Best Way: Stay with mojopoly on mpd, use somekind of mpd app like m.a.l.p. that is direct 100% bit perfect stream.

I love Roon and use it every day, about half the time with mojo poly.

 

[pauldoni]

Hi guys , what's the price of chord poly now? It's has many variation..
And how much it should cost when I want get a used poly? Thanks

 

[cfisher]

Roon is biggest audiophile scam in history and 100% waste of money. Cause of the big hit sound quality wise. Even sbc bluetooth surpass easily poisoned degenerated roon streams.

Best Way: Stay with mojopoly on mpd, use somekind of mpd app like m.a.l.p. that is direct 100% bit perfect stream.

Yeah, I love Roon, too. It sounds great on my mojopoly, my headphone system, and my two channel system.

 

[ubs28]

Has anyone managed to get the SD cards inside the Poly to show up in Audirvana? If so, how did you do it?

If this is not possible, does Roon allow this (I really do not want to spend $700 for a silly music player so I do my best to avoid it).

 

[gimmeheadroom]

Roon is biggest audiophile scam in history and 100% waste of money. Cause of the big hit sound quality wise. Even sbc bluetooth surpass easily poisoned degenerated roon streams.

Best Way: Stay with mojopoly on mpd, use somekind of mpd app like m.a.l.p. that is direct 100% bit perfect stream.

I hate roon for other reasons but I'm usually alone in my opinions. So, hello and welcome

 

[ubs28]

I got an other question. Has it been established what the best sounding app (DLNA) is for iPhone?

Seems that Audivrana sounds better than the SD playback of the Chord Poly.

So maybe I am using the wrong iPhone app (Mconnect)

 

[someyoungguy]

I noticed at various points that some tracks would be missing from an album on the poly SD card. After a bit of figuring out I've realized that in Rigelian tracks and also whole albums are missing when there is an accent or similar in the filename or track metadata (I'm not sure which as if the song has an accent in the name it's in the filename as well as track info metadata). They show up in Glider so it seems to be a Rigelian issue rather than Poly not indexing the files. I'll put a request into their support and see what comes back.

 

[captblaze]

They show up in Glider so it seems to be a Rigelian issue rather than Poly not indexing the files. I'll put a request into their support and see what comes back.

As strange as this might sound Glider is more stable in IOS 14 beta than earlier versions. Also, I have found deleting these 3 files (art-cache.tar / dlna-sdfr3ee.dat / mpd.db) from the SD card and letting Poly rebuild helps in making all appear proper. Can't speak for Rigellian, but I have had success with Glider, 8 Player and Mconnect when deleting those files

 

[ubs28]

Yeah, I love Roon, too. It sounds great on my mojopoly, my headphone system, and my two channel system.

I don’t like Roon because I boycott the “rental business model” that is emerging today in general.

What is your opinion about the sound quality of Audirvana versus Roon?

 

[jarnopp]

I don’t like Roon because I boycott the “rental business model” that is emerging today in general.

Are you still using Windows 2000? It doesn’t matter if you buy (and rebuy) or rent. It’s all about continued improvement and features as hardware, etc. changes. You end up getting/paying the same in the long run.