Windows Plex player for music

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Server Version#: 1.32.3.7192
Player Version#: Plexamp 4.7.4 - Plex HTPC 1.36.2.3822-a0cc3c3e

Hi all, I am using Plexamp for iPhone as my unique application to play my music library from a Synology NAS. Trying to get the best quality at my HiFi system at home, I want to avoid to stream via BT or AirPlay due to the limitation to CD quality (16/44) when playing hi-res stereo audio FLAC files.

I have an unsed NUC with Windows 10 so I thought why not using it to configure as Plexamp renderer connected to my AV receiver via HDMI. I installed the native Windows Plexamp application but I found that, when playing hi-res files, they are downsampled to 48kHz. but it plays gapless perfect. Then tried with Plex HTPC but here I have the opposite, it doesn’t downsample hi-res files but gapless doesn’t work.

Searching in the forums I found that, what I am looking for is probably under development but in the meanwhile, does anybody have any experience to get what I am looking for with a third party application for Windows that works as renderer recognized by the iOS plexamp app?

Thanks!

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If you have a sound interface which you can configure with a fixed sample rate. I recommend you to set it simply to 96kHz/24bit fixed. Set the default configuration for this sound interface to “24 bit, 96000 Hz (Studio Quality)” in the Windows sound control panel.
Disable all the other “improvements” on the sound control panel.

If you now play anything with Plexamp, everything will be played at 96/24. CD-quality files will be upsampled, but that is done with a very high-quality method so that you’ll never hear the difference.

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Thank you for your reply!

I am trying to avoid either downsampling or upsampling, just passing through the original quality of the music files.

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It is not possible to do that. Particularly if you want sweet fades to work.

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Would it be possible inLinux instead?

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This has nothing to do with the operating system but with the app itself.