New Maestro app - is there a way of controlling Oladra via Paul MacGowan's new Qobuz controller?

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Has anyone tried this, and if so what is the process and sound-wise, how does it compare to Squeeze?

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Maestro ā€œhands off the stream and gets out of the way entirelyā€. On Antipdodes, it hands off the stream to the MPD player app. This is similar to JPlay so thatā€™s its true competitor.

Squeeze relies on the Squeezlite app for playback. My ears have told me that Squeezelite does a better job of getting out of the way than MPD, but maybe Maestro can help close the gap. Hopefully some JPlay fans will try it and let us know.

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Not entirely true, JPLAY uses MinimServer on the Antipodes and MPD player on the Antipodes.

Maestro cannot connect to the UPnP server on the Antipodes, and must be added as a network share, so for local files uses your laptop or desktop and even then the network share is aā€¦: Coming soon. Weā€™re laying the groundwork for network shares. Once the Connector adds SMB/NFS mounting, this form will start working immediately ā€” weā€™ll save what you enter and try to connect.

Currently works great on Qobuz, less than average on local files stored on my laltop IMHO.
Cannot comment on sound quality as it is my desktop workstation system only, my gut tells me MinimServer+JPLAY will superior by a long stretch.

So it isnt a competitor, what it is now, is for someone who has music stored on their computer who want to stream to an ethernet endpoint, thats it.

Iā€™ve shot off some questions via their Help on Maerstro, will be interesting to see if I get a responce.

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Look forward to hearing back how you go @MarkCole .

Paul M did respond pretty immediately to me a few weeks back, but it was clear that he didnā€™t have much understanding of the Oladra software stack and options, and it wasnā€™t particularly helpful at the time.
He said ā€œMaestro can control any Roon enabled device. If I am understanding correctly you can turn that on. No?ā€

Iā€™m a Squeeze user for ultimate sonic reasons as most who use it are, so Iā€™m most interested in Maestro as a player front end with more functionality than the current Squeezelite UI.

All my streaming is via Qobuz, and while I have a bunch of stuff on disks in the Oladra, I donā€™t recall the last time I accessed a song from it, so donā€™t really ā€˜needā€™ that functionality.