DTS Play-Fi Products are Compatible with QQ Music’s QPlay2 Streaming Technology
QQ Music is the most popular music streaming service in China with estimated 120 million subscribers. DTS Play-Fi is now compatible with QPlay2, the latest version of their wireless streaming technology offered by QQ Music to all its users.
In order to take advantage of QPlay, a user needs to enable the function in the settings of the QQ Music app. After QPlay is enabled, they can choose a desired playlist and once the music starts, the mobile device can be used for other functions. With QPlay2, a listener can queue up any content they wish to play in the QQ Music app, select their DTS Play-Fi device from the connected button in the Now Playing screen, and the music will start streaming seamlessly.
The DTS Play-Fi technology continues to offer its users more flexibility and ways to customize how content is consumed.
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Krzysztof 04-06-20
Hi!
Is there any kind of information about “gapless” feature?
We have 2020 and this function is still not implemented.
It’s a blocking point for change streaming service to something different than Spotify.
Since two years, when I bought Rotel Network Player, I see lots of improvements with Play-Fi app, but why this simple feature is difficult to introduce?
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MrC 04-10-20
When could we expect Amazon Music or XM Radio to get the transfer to speaker function? My other question is: could the software be configured so that anytime you are trying to play a compatible source to a speaker that is capable of playing the source directly, it be done automatically? This would greatly simplify the ease and stability of the audio experience.
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Ryan 04-13-20
This announcement is your first in ages, though not of much interest to me personally. Would love to see some progress on a few fronts:
• Add support for MacOS playback. Yes, has under 10% marketshare, but among audio enthusiasts it is much higher.
• Support for adding any podcasts via URL (RSS)
• Remember device volume setting from previous usage
• Default transfer-to-device for devices that support it
• Allow users to save Line-In settings as presets
• When playing to multiple devices, indicate if the primary device playback has been “transferred to”
• You currently show which input a device is set to. Possible to allow user to control it? I use line-in streaming a lot.
• Disable app settings sections if they are blank or empty like (for me) Hardware Presets
• Show current system version under update system instead of a dialog that says “no update required”
I also think you should make a more serious effort to engage your community and address their concerns. No forum? No outreach? We just comment on blog posts every 6 months? This is not how you build a platform.
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JS Arcand 04-20-20
I agree with you, no MacOS playback is a bummer.
I’ll add to your list:
• Opening up the protocol
• Add plugins
• Add squeezelite on the speaker firmware so that we can actually use these speaker on a solid open source platform with an actual community.
• homekit integration (source selection, volume control, automation)
Let’s face it. this project is dying. We’ve seen almost no communication. No involvement. No community behind it to maintain it alive. Manufacturers don’t follow up with added improvements (I’m looking at you Paradigm with the absence of airplay 1 or 2 in your speakers, despite the add-on in others). It seems like DTS has never truly committed to this project. Software development seems to be from the Phorus team, but it seems like DTS never injected the necessary capitals to make that platform blossom.
What will happen to our speakers when this will end? Will they only be useable through line in? They will be app controllable as long as the app is supported by the OS?
Guys, you need to be more transparent.
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JS Arcand 04-20-20
FWIW, paradigm whole line up has been on liquidation for a while. 50% off. Very high quality products 50% off. I think they’re just emptying their warehouses.
So. Play-fi. Prove me wrong.
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Roger McCall 04-20-20
Very disappointing if true. I have a houseful of this stuff from a half a dozen different manufacturers. It works great for my purposes at present. I’d hate to have to put it all in the closet with my Windows Phone.
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DTS Play-Fi 04-20-20
Hey Guys,
We’re working pretty hard in the background on some new features, updates, and products from several partners, so if the announcements have been few and far between, this is the reason. We’ve been updating the “What’s New” article mostly, so perhaps a new article altogether will be better for everyone.
We’re not going anywhere, and some of the things people have listed here are indeed in the works, though we’ll have more to share on the specifics of all that later this year after this first major release and update we have planned with a few partners.
I think I’d rather have these kinds of discussions in a forum as well, but that unfortunately will have to wait a bit as we’re all heads down on making this stuff happen for this year, amid everything else that’s going on.
Stay safe, everyone.
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Phil 05-26-20
Can you add full functionality when transferred to device? It’s very limited at the moment.
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