Qobuz Connect.

[reignofchaos]

A basic question - if I use qobuz connect through the app. in my phone to send to my hi-fi, is my phone battery being drained as it plays?
Cheers,
Sid

Check the output data stream on the phone. Is it consuming lots when playing music and doing nothing else? It should answer it the question.

I would think all these connect apps would cause the phone to be the packet forwarder.

 

[square_wave]

Check the output data stream on the phone. Is it consuming lots when playing music and doing nothing else? It should answer it the question.

I would think all these connect apps would cause the phone to be the packet forwarder.

Totally. The app doing the heavy lifting is in the device siting at the system.

 

[sidvee]

If the phone is the device doing the heavy lifting via the app., it is pointless in the context of a hi-fi system then. Anyways my Lumin u2 mini does allow Qobuz connect, tried it, heard some difference - 100% placebo imo. Will try when Aurender allows it - for the N200. I think this is for convenience - not sure why so much hullabaloo about this.
Cheers,
Sid

 

[mbhangui]

Switch off the phone. If the music continues to play, it is the device doing the heavy lifting. The phone will not consume power on account of music, but it will still consume power displaying album art, music progress bar. This is how spotify connect works.

If the music stops playing, the phone is pulling the music data and reforwarding it to the device (a bad design) - This is how apple music works and your phone will drain battery pulling and pushing the music plus displaying music progress and albumart.

 

[IndianEars]

QOBUZ... FAR more dynamic.

In comparison, Tidal sounds like elevator music (to me, YMMV)

 

[sidvee]

Switch off the phone. If the music continues to play, it is the device doing the heavy lifting. The phone will not consume power on account of music, but it will still consume power displaying album art, music progress bar. This is how spotify connect works.

If the music stops playing, the phone is pulling the music data and reforwarding it to the device (a bad design) - This is how apple music works and your phone will drain battery pulling and pushing the music plus displaying music progress and albumart.

I switched off the phone and the music was still playing, so that's good I suppose, having the device process the music. However as I stated before could hear some difference but nothing of any significance in terms of sound quality, so at most it is a good convenience feature for me at-least.
Cheers,
Sid

 

[dashy]

There is a Qobuz Club app in India App Store (ios) - is that same one that is being referred here?