[Music] ASIO Output Support

[Isosceles]

Please can you add support for an ASIO audio output device?

As a owner of a separate headphone DAC + Amp, I get much better quality music when I'm using the bit-perfect ASIO output rather than DirectSound, which changes the audio bitstream before it reaches the DAC. ASIO output would be a great compliment to the Spotify high-quality streaming.

About ASIO4All : http://www.head-fi.org/t/221237/asio4all-explanation

Thanks!

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My Audio equipment : Schiit Bifrost + Asgard, Beyerdynamic DT 250 headphones

[soundwave76]

I know MANY users who are into HiFi and they are more or less FORCED to use Tidal etc instead of Spotify simply for this purpose - which would be easy to fix...

[anilhaksever]

With better sound options they would force their opponents hands. Yeah under this suggestion there are only 632 votes right now. But better sound, even if it was a placebo -which is not- is a huge selling point.

It is one of those things people didn't know they needed until they have it. "Use improved bit-perfect sound driver" would raise many eyebrows.

Instead right now my band mates are not using spotify solely because they can't make use of their hardware with it.

[darkzun]

Yes, please add support for ASIO

[JusHappyMusic]

Hi all,

as Spotify puts asio on the long bank (maybe they introduce it with lossless streaming) here maybe a work around:

(original post and idea by user vladimirb0b over at computeraudiophile. original link included at the bottom)

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you can download Virtual Audio Cable from here 

Virtual Audio Cable Home Page http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm

Note that this *isn't* the VB-Audio one.

Open up the VAC Kernel Streaming config tool and set Wave in to Virtual Cable 1 and out to your soundcard which should show up. Mine is an Cambridge Dac Magic 100 so it says "Cambridge Audio DAC 100 USB 2"

Change your output in windows sound mixer to Line 1/Virtual Audio Cable.

Hit "start" in the Virtual Audio Cable config and listen to music. 

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They checked if its true kernel streaming and it is: (you see also the original post here that i forward)

https://www.computeraudiophile.com/forums/topic/28680-bit-perfect-windows-audio-for-tidal-etc/ 

[gvl]

JRiver player is all you need, enable WDM driver and enjoy. Send to ASIO or WASAPI as you wish. Best quality I could get with Spotify.

[JusHappyMusic]

thanks Gig for the information (and also the information in the past you posted over at audiokarma) regarding that matter. 

I will check JRiver. I hope it maintains the simplicity and flexibility of the spotify ui also passing through spotify recommendations and all other spotify goodies such as an generated radio following the song you are hearing which allowed me to find a lot of interesting artists. 

(im using roon for tidal and i wasnt impressed regarding 3rd party ui´s so far which is why the virtual audi cable seems like a neat transparent choice to create a bit perfect foundation under spotify vanilla. i mean  from my viewpoint the great value of spotify is the music lib + algorithms behind it including the device spanning ease of use apps and ui. if it would be quality alone, heck i would only use Tidal lossless + MQA (featuring also asio and waspi exclusive support) 

cheers

[gvl]

There is no 3rd party UI for Spotify in JRiver. In this instance JRiver acts similar to the virtual audio cable mentioned above. You use the standard Spotify windows client but it plays through JRiver, so it is pretty much transparent once you set it up. You're not limited to ASIO as you can set JRiver output to a WASAPI interface which greatly improves compatibility with audio devices as not all supply ASIO drivers, and there is no need for ASIO4ALL with JRiver. As a bonus you can use the powerful DSP that's built-in into JRiver. I didn't try the Russian Virtual Audio Cable you mentioned but if I were to spend my money on anything I'd just get JRiver for all the extra functionality that comes with it and support/information available. ASIO bridge from VB-Audio sounded better than default Windows stack, but JRiver is a whole another level. It is free for 30 days too.

Spotify -> JRiver WDM Driver (set as the default Windows device @16/44.1kHz) -> JRiver audio stack (DSP as needed - eq, volume control, resamping, room correction, etc.) -> ASIO/WASAPI device

[JusHappyMusic]

thanks for the clarification Gig. In that case thats indeed a great add ! I will try it out during the weekend. The virtual audio cable seems indeed to feature bit perfect streaming, but its at least on my system not exclusive.

Jriver may be the final way to take for spotify until they add their own implementation. (i totally expect that to happen with the finalization of their lossless offer they started dabbing in)

Thanks again !

ps. yes originally i also used VB-Audios Hifi-Cable and ASIO Bridge but it seems to be not kernel streaming. it bypasses parts of the mixer but not all.In the thread linked above a user measured Virtual Audio Cable and came to the conclusion its true kernel streaming.

Asio4all is in any case only necessary if your DAC has not an own ASIO driver

[rkwolek]

ASIO is more or less being abandoned, so no point lobbying for it. WASAPI on the other hand, which TIDAL supports, should definitely be implemented as soon as possible. 

[user-removed]

2017 and Spotify still has the settings menu of a startup company ran by toddlers lol