Recent content by graystones

Agreed. Not having a persistent media control panel in the notification area makes WiiM unusable for me as my main music player interface. My guess is it has something to do with it supporting "direct" play from the various apps like Tidal Connect, Spotify Connect and Amazon Music's Alexa Cast...

Correct. I now have it sorted. There was no obvious way to connect Amazon Music's direct cast feature from the settings menu after Amazon Music had been setup. It's possible it was asked during the initial setup, but I would not have associated "Alexa" with their cast feature because I'm coming...

I didn't see that option previously. Thanks.

Any idea where I enable this Alexa cast option?

I'm not finding this setting. In the WiiM app under the Device tab I select the gear icon for the settings of the WiiM Pro. There, the only thing I can find for Alexa is in the Voice section and it only allows me to select the language. Where do I enable Alexa cast? I only see a rectangular cast...

When playing music from the Amazon Music app and selecting the cast drop-down option and selecting the WiiM Pro, does that restrict the quality to Chromecast's bitrate limitation (whatever that is? 24/96?), or does it use a different method of integrating with Amazon Music and play it up to...

Why are we excluding YouTube Music and Apple Music from the list of requests? Are there technical limitations with those two that are not with the others?

I thought HEOS on Denon receivers supports YouTube Music, but just checked my newly updated HEOS app (which is way better than before), and I don't see it as an option. I wonder if they eliminated it when implementing universal search?

Is there no way to have the WiiM app persist in the window shade area to quickly look at what's playing, skip, pause, control volume, etc? This seems like a basic feature but I don't see it.

I appreciate the reply. I'm mostly looking for empirical answers to a question I have less experience with. This is all measurable and I would think it would be a settled discussion, but it sounds like I might be oversimplifying it if we are independently seeing people say conflicting things...

I am bypassing the internal DAC of the player, which is why I chose the Pro vs the Pro Plus and am only looking at the digital outputs on the device. I will do some more research on the difference between coaxial vs the Toslink optical audio output.

Would I be correct in assuming the Toslink (optical) is the only digital out connection? What I'm trying to determine is which outputs are digital to avoid a D to A output, and of all digital options, which is the empirically better output type. Thanks.

Do you think you'll ever use Chromecast? If so, that's not on the Mini.

Can you explain why you intend to switch from optical out to coax? I had a similar question on which output is best when not using the internal DAC, but didn't get much of a response.

I assumed one output was objectively better than the other.