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Hi Ken, There is a link to submit fix requests on the FlightPlan app on the iPad.
Hi Bob,

Yes, I posted there before here.
 

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I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I have used TAS to manually reproduce a few of the playlists I created in Roon over the years. This takes quite a while as I need to search for individual tunes in my library, Qobuz, and Tidal and some of the playlists are quite lengthy. When I've found all the tunes for a given playlist, I'll use the "save the play queue" function in Queue and give the playlist a name. I can then find that playlist in My Music under Playlists. So far so good, although I would love the Taiko team to come up with a way to automate the recreation of Roon playlists in TAS.

Unfortunately, I've lost those painstakingly assembled playlists twice now and I'm pretty sure it happens when I use the Rescan Media Library function. I still have all of the Tidal and Qobuz playlists that have come pre-assembled from these streaming services, but my own playlists are nowhere to be found. Is this a bug in TAS or am I missing something?

They should be stored in D:\playlists
 

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A Beta point. When playing a work like Pictures at an Exhibition with TAS much of the time there is no smooth transition to the next track--the music stops abruptly, sometimes before the passage is over, then the next track starts a few seconds later. Roon flows into the next track smoothly. It's a bit annoying but not as much as the SQ difference when switching to Roon! Can this be fixed?

Your new Totaldac reclocker has a FIFO buffer of about 2 seconds if I recall correctly, that means you will miss the first 2 seconds of a track when the samplerate changes. Indeed report in testflight and we can look into adding a track start delay option.
 
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They should be stored in D:\playlists
Hopefully you are in bed, sound asleep now, Emile. I searched the D drive (and indeed the entire computer) and was unable to find the playlists. This isn't a huge concern right now, especially in a beta release. Just put it on the list of things to look into for later releases. Thanks!
 

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I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I have used TAS to manually reproduce a few of the playlists I created in Roon over the years. This takes quite a while as I need to search for individual tunes in my library, Qobuz, and Tidal and some of the playlists are quite lengthy. When I've found all the tunes for a given playlist, I'll use the "save the play queue" function in Queue and give the playlist a name. I can then find that playlist in My Music under Playlists. So far so good, although I would love the Taiko team to come up with a way to automate the recreation of Roon playlists in TAS.

Unfortunately, I've lost those painstakingly assembled playlists twice now and I'm pretty sure it happens when I use the Rescan Media Library function. I still have all of the Tidal and Qobuz playlists that have come pre-assembled from these streaming services, but my own playlists are nowhere to be found. Is this a bug in TAS or am I missing something?
Hi always learning, I'm not sure I this will help but this is what I do... I use soundiiz.com and I export my roon playlist to a xls file, then I import it into sounding and let it convert it to qubuz and Tidal. Then I queue it up in TAS and save it as a playlist... lot of steps but it would be nice if TAS could leverage sounding. Hope that helps.
 
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Your new Totaldac reclocker has a FIFO buffer of about 2 seconds if I recall correctly, that means you will miss the first 2 seconds of a track when the samplerate changes. Indeed report in testflight and we can look into adding a track start delay option.
It's in Testflight. It doesn't do it with Roon and with TAS it seems to be cutting off the end of some tracks as well--but only on pieces like Pictures.
 

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SGM Extreme made incredible record again.

I just know this fact.

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Congratulations, Emile~!

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Hi always learning, I'm not sure I this will help but this is what I do... I use soundiiz.com and I export my roon playlist to a xls file, then I import it into sounding and let it convert it to qubuz and Tidal. Then I queue it up in TAS and save it as a playlist... lot of steps but it would be nice if TAS could leverage sounding. Hope that helps.
I remember reading about this workaround earlier in the thread; thanks for the reminder. I'll give it a try.
 

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It's in Testflight. It doesn't do it with Roon and with TAS it seems to be cutting off the end of some tracks as well--but only on pieces like Pictures.

Yes, you would miss the last 2 seconds of the track aswell in that case as the track stop command is executed immediately while there’s still 2 seconds of music left in the Totaldac buffer.
 

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TAS / LMS Plugin updates

Many of the you Beta Testers will have noticed a small green icon announcing the availability of updates for LMS Plugins

These updates plugins have not be tested by critical listening by the Taiko Team yet, but appear to be not SQ degrading

One thing to note with the updated plugins is that the access to Server Settings has been buried further down the menus

When you tap the 3 dots on the right of Extreme Direct status row, a smaller window now shows up with the choices
- Settings
- Information

When you tap Settings, the color selection page will open and there you can tap again on the 3 dots to see Player settings and Server settings

Under Server settings you can see and set the Playlists Folder location and other good stuff

If you tap on Information, you will see a lot of info and at the bottom you will see there is a User Guide for Material Skin
 
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Will the update have any effect if I primarily use a laptop to control TAS with the server IP Address?
 

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TAS / LMS Plugin updates

Many of the you Beta Testers will have noticed a small green icon announcing the availability of updates for LMS Plugins

These updates plugins have not be tested by critical listening by the Taiko Team yet, but appear to be not SQ degrading

One thing to note with the updated plugins is that the access to Server Settings has been buried further down the menus

When you tap the 3 dots on the right of Extreme Direct status row, a smaller window now shows up with the choices
- Settings
- Information

When you tap Settings, the color selection page will open and there you can tap again on the 3 dots to see Player settings and Server settings

Under Server settings you can see and set the Playlists Folder location and other good stuff

If you tap on Information, you will see a lot of info and at the bottom you will see there is a User Guide for Material Skin
Hi Ed,

Out of curiosity why would "many" see the green icon at player settings, should not "all" see the same thing? I don't see the green icon at player settings on my iPad/TAS???
 

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These updates plugins have not be tested by critical listening by the Taiko Team yet, but appear to be not SQ degrading
I noticed no SQ degradation after the plug in update. After the update the green light disappeared
 

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the other thing I found is in the server settings(these findings are in the TAS manual when we install Tidal...

If you click on server settings there first thing we see at the top is "basic settings"...if you click the "down arrow" to the right of basic settings another window opens and if you scroll down there is a button for "software updates"

Yesterday however when I was playing music I noticed that green lit button by the 3 dots to the right of "extreme status" I had no idea what it was an when I clicked it, it said "software updates available and told me that it was for "plugins". There was a button below that that said "click to update". I did that and the update was done in under a minute. I received a message that then told me I was disconnected from TAS, I chose "serial player" and turned it on and everything was working fine. Listening for a few hours I personally could not notice any adverse sound changes
 

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the other thing I found is in the server settings(these findings are in the TAS manual when we install Tidal...

If you click on server settings there first thing we see at the top is "basic settings"...if you click the "down arrow" to the right of basic settings another window opens and if you scroll down there is a button for "software updates"

Yesterday however when I was playing music I noticed that green lit button by the 3 dots to the right of "extreme status" I had no idea what it was an when I clicked it, it said "software updates available and told me that it was for "plugins". There was a button below that that said "click to update". I did that and the update was done in under a minute. I received a message that then told me I was disconnected from TAS, I chose "serial player" and turned it on and everything was working fine. Listening for a few hours I personally could not notice any adverse sound changes
Thx Steve. I had not looked at the settings under "sw updates". You can control to ck for the updates and even check to have them downloaded automatically. Learn something new everyday:)
 
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Yes, you would miss the last 2 seconds of the track aswell in that case as the track stop command is executed immediately while there’s still 2 seconds of music left in the Totaldac buffer.
Roon doesn't do this because there is no track stop command? It's pretty unpleasant. Can i defeat the buffer in the Totaldac? Otherwise how can it be fixed?
 

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