And play it did, but only for short bursts and it was not streaming contibuously. I then entered my account details in for Qobuz (and will do so for my Tidal account later) and searched for a HighRes file pn Qobuz to play: Abraxas as a first try. I installed this on an iPad and then slected the NDX as the LUMIN and the MinimServer (which is running on the NAS and at the moment set as a Media Server in BubbleUPnP: as is the Fidata server, but that is not showing for some reason - not really a problem though as I would not stream from this through the NDX anyway). My next problem was how to control the server as BubbleSoft have yet to release their IoS app and I don't have any Android devices. I also set Gapless Playback to 'on' to try and resolve an initial problem (more later). Having got the server to run, I assigned the NDX as an OpenHome renderer and set Qobuz Maximum Audio Quality to FLAC 24 bits / up to 192 KHz. So, check which DSM is running before you try and install BubbleUPnP on a Synology NAS! In Germany they are also up-to-date, but what I did not notice was that the older hardware only runs up to DSM 6.2.4! After installing BubbleUPnP as a native application it came up perfectly and found the various music servers available on the network. This turned out to be due to operator error! In the UK I have more recent NAS units and they, like the ones in Germany, are set to auto-update and are running DSM 7. Initially I installed it in a Docker 'container' as the server is only supported up to Synology DSM version 6 at present, but could not get it to run. This piqued my interest and so I installed BubbleUPnP on one of the Synology NAS units in the studio (a DS1511+). While looking at some articles about MQA related to Slinger's post on the 'format' (), I spotted some articles about using BubbleUPnP to render Qobuz to older streamers, including the NDX. However in Germany I have the older NDX which only supports Tidal. In the UK I have a Naim NDX 2 which has a built-in support for both Tidal and Qobuz. Following on from a post about using BubbleUPnP as a means to render Qobuz to a streamer that does not have built-in support, I thought it might be interesting to explain how I managed to get it work.
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