dCS Mosaic Control

Having spent some time with a Lumin T2 and being increasingly frustrated with it’s app ”features” of crashing while searching, playing songs in wrong order and many more things it would be nice to try out the Dcs app before committing to the hardware. Let it connect to my music lib. Also create a window that mimics the device display so I can understand settings. Are they easy and understandable or awful?

Well written, thoroughly thought out and regularly updated. This app is intuitive to use, full featured and includes everything needed to operate dCS’ networked products. It has what can be thought of as “two sides” operating simultaneously: a hardware control part and a music services part. All of the features of my dCS Vivaldi DAC and Upsampler are found in the first and everything you could want beautifully implemented in the second. For those who like to use Roon, both can be run simultaneously allowing Roon’s music control with dCS Mosaic’s hardware control. Roon is definitely not required but doing this is an option. In fact, this app includes Spotify, Deezer and USB interfaces as well as Podcasts which Roon does not. Of course, you can play downloaded files as well (MinimServer suggested). If only the rest of the world were like dCS …

Mosaic is by far the best first-party app that I've used in the last decade. Most are either an afterthought to their hardware counterpart, or become abandonware. I have no reason to even entertain roon. Mosaic is fast, sleek, and user-friendly. Allows one to get to one's music quickly and then graciously gets out of the way. Queue management is fast and intuitive. Color me impressed!

I’ve been using this instead of Roon now for five days, I don’t think I need to go back to rule, this is the best implementation of a streamer software I have seen from an OEM.