IFi Zen Stream with Qobuz

@jabbaman

It is annoying that the Zen Stream doesn’t have good native Qobuz integration. Further, Tidal Connect is pretty flakey at the best of times.

Actually, it takes both iFi and Qobuz’s cooperation to create the ‘connect’ feature. iFi is more than willing, but it seems Qobuz is the one dragging their feet or not interested. Perhaps upset that the Zen Stream was released with Tidal integration from the start? Dunno.

I have no real issues with the Zen Stream and Tidal Connect. Works great.

I don’t stream enough to invest in Roon. Thus, for the time being, Tidal it is. Unfortunately, as I would like to try Qobuz, just don’t think I would like using the MConnect interface to do so. Using the Tidal interface works just great.

There's not Qobuz Connect for anything so it being iFi has nothing to do with it. If iFi want to have Qobuz integration they need to adopt an app that is compatible but that costs money they are not willing to spend.  There new Neo Stream is the same way.  iFi's app is based on an old version of Volumio which never supported Qobuz. 

I ended getting it to work and I changed nothing in the end. It just showed up under UPNP randomly at about the time I was going to give up. Sounds a fair amount better than my node. Lots of inner detail that I was missing. 

Thanks to everyone who helped my with this little project. Waiting on a few last parts (power supplies and usb cable) but so far I really like the detail I am now getting. Soundstage has also improved significantly :))

@temmple 

Glad you finally got it all worked out.