[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

[Isosceles]

Updated on 2018-10-31

Hey folks,



Thanks for coming to the Community, and adding your vote to this idea.

We're keeping this idea set to 'Not Right Now', as this isn't something we have any immediate plans to implement. We appreciate you sharing your thoughts.

Rest assured that if we do have any new information to share, we'll check back in here with a new status.



Thanks.

[TITIMEGA]

Please, I need WASAPI. Today, for suppport wasapi I have to use Kodi with spotymc addon, but this not suppot spotify remote with iphone.

[femto_romano]

Yes that would be nice to have asio option directly into Spotify.

I personally tried equalify, but the interface is not the same excatly as Spotify.
I found another solution which is working great for me.
I can use Spotify as bit perfect with an asio bridge. It is awesome because not only it works for Spotify but any other softwares as VLC, youtube...

How to do it:
1. Download Asio4all (free) : http://www.asio4all.com/
2. Download HIFI-CABLE & ASIO-Bridge (free) : http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/

3. Go to windows sound devices (playback). Select Hifi Cable input as your default device.
4. Start Vb Audio asio bridge software. Click the button Asio ON then the button Asio Panel. You will see an asio panel showing up. Select in this panel your device you want to listen (Daq…)
5. That’s it. It will reroute the music into Asio without Windows messing with re sampling (bit perfect) ….
Don’t forget to download Asio4all before.

 

[aeneas1]

the hi-fi asio bridge approach seems interesting, altho i've tried it in the past without much luck, then again i didn't download asio4all first which the bridge points to in this example...  question tho, how do you get it to output through hdmi in the playback device settings? if i select this as my default playback (output) device, won't it try to play through the system speakers? how can i get it to play through hdmi in the same manner the device it replaced (intel hdmi driver) did?

[femto_romano]

Aeneas,

I have myself an AV receiver (Yamaha HT 4096) and external sound cards (Fiio and focusrite 6i6)
Indeed I can select HDMI cable as output so my AV receiver can play the music with Asio (and Spotify sending the music to Asio).

Vb bridge is the one to get the sound not passing to windows mixer and therefore keep the bit perfect. Then Asio4all will reroute to any sound device you want.

Here are the detailed step :

You need to download and install Asio4all first (free). As you said in your comment without it, you will never be able to reroute to your speakers.

Then do the same thing for the Asio Bridge (see my previous post for the link).

Go to sound device manager (see picture below).

Deactivate all playbacks except Hifi cable input. Make Hifi cable as your default sound device.
This is important to deactivate all other devices otherwise Asio will not see them as available. You can also go to Hifi cable properties to change the sampling rate and verify the volume if necessary.

Then start Asio bridge software (like picture below)

Click the buttn Asio Off (pitcure 1) then Asio panel (picture 2)

After that it will show up the Asio4all panel

That’s it! From this panel you can choose you device you want to send your music to.
For that, you need  to push the blue "interrupter" icon on the left of the device you want (it is pobably better to deactivate the default first)
For example, if you have your speakers connected to AV receiver you will select it (my Yamaha AV is detected as NVIDIA HDMI cable )
If you have an external sound card you can choose it (Scarlet 6i6 in my interface)

If you choose Realtek it will send the music to your PC internal sound card (probably as default when you start asio4all for the first time)

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If at any moment you want to go back to your old audio configuration just close the software descibed above and go back to sound manger to choose directly the device.

I hope that answered your questions

[user-removed]

femto, thanks for the great info! i'm up and running using asio bridge (pictures below) but i'm wondering why it hasn't taken over exclusive control of windows audio, for example i can still use my windows volume controls, i thought i read somewhere that if windows audio is correctly bypassed, i.e. if you're able to get bitperfect out of your machine without windows touching it, then you would know because windows volume controls would no longer work, is this not true?

a few other questions, thoughts, and observations...

> the asio bridge was a bit confusing because what shows up under playback is titled "INPUT" rather than output as are other devices that usually show up in this area. also, in the asio bridge panel, i was worrying abot the "OUTPUT" details/info thinking that was what was outputting from the pc, when in fact it was the "INPUT" that was actually outputting... speaking of asio output, is there any need to enable it for audio output? or is it just used if you have a need for mics and recording (given it shows up under the recording tab in playback devices?

> in the image below the number 1 (blue) shows that the sample rate settings i chose in device playback  (24/192) shows up correctly in asio bridge, as do all sample rate settings i choose, which is encouraging!

> the number 2 (red) shows asio bridge correctly corresponding to the stereo (2-channel) setting i chose in playback devices (configure), and it changes whenever i change the configure settings.

> the number 3 (yellow) shows settings that are automatically assigned when i launch asio bridge. if music is streaming i can uncheck all of the checked items shown in the yellow box with no impact on the streaming music. but if i shutdown asio bridge and relaunch it the settings are back, which i found kind of strange.

> the number 4 (red) shows some settings i played around with, including moving the two latency compression sliders to 512, which didn't seem to do anything. have you played around with any of these settings? like "allow pull mode" for example? do you know how these settings impact the music stream?

> here's another look that shows the asio bridge input channel number (2-channel) corresponding with my device playback setting (stereo). if i set the playback device speaker configuration to 7.1 for example, asio bridge will show 8-channels, which is great. however i can only get 2-channel to my receiver (sound processor) regardless if i set the speaker configuration to 5.1 or 7.1, my receiver shows 2-channel pcm, not sure how to change this?

> in the image below you can see that i've set the speaker configuration to 7.1, which the asio bridge correctly shows as 8-channel (red arrows). but if i "test" the 7.1 speakers in the playback device, by clicking each speaker, i only get sound from the front left & right speakers, the other speakers light up when clicked but there is no sound. do you have any idea what's going on here? btw my speaker set up is front l/r, center, side l/r and rear l/r and sub, i.e. 7.1... if i run the same speaker test using my receiver it works just fine, i get sound from all speakers.

[vvrAz]

This is flawed:

- windows is mixing and altering sampling rate and bit depth before audio hits ASIO Bridge Input. Only volume level is preserved - but it may be altered later.

- windows may change volume after asio4all ask it to deliver audio to actual DAC. Only samling rate and bit depth is preserved - but it may have been altered before.

Using asio bridge and asio4all together

- will create short bit-perfect path in your audio setup

- makes no sense if you know what the tools do (its like putting 3 inch crystal tube between your small and large intestine)

[Chibarde]

After listening on the two different tools, I feel like fidelify is still better than the asio bridge...

[ilmatanela72]

Any news about ASIO support? The lack of this feature is what also keeps me from subscribing premium account

[YoJuanma]

ASIO support please!!! it is so difficult?? btw... as user wrAz said: ASIO Bridge it's a complete non sense, the data that comes from Spotify is mixed by the Windows Audio Engine BEFORE get trough the ASIO stream of ASIO Bridge, so the only you got is a useless extra process instead of avoiding the mixing of the WAE... excuse my bad english, greetings!

[feralcomp]

Yep.  Need direct Spotify-to-DAC capacity.  Fidelify is fine if all you listen to are playlists, but I like the radio feature.