mconnect Player

This is a great player for DLNA (uPnP) sources. I use it all the time. There are obvious glaring problems with the app that leads me to believe the author must not use their own app regularly. 1. No “add to queue on the playing screen (so you can’t audition a track, decide it’s good, and add to an existing queue). 2. No playlist/queue management other than remove 3. there needs to be a randomize in the playlist/queue (destructive edit) and a randomize on playing a playlist/queue (non destructive) 4. Needs to be a manual (hold-drag) move of a track’s ordering in the playlist/queue (destructive edit of queue). 5. Optimize adding tracks to the playlist/queue. It is a ton of taps right now and feels like a lot of friction!!! Especially when I want to throw a lot of tracks into a playlist/queue from many different folders. 6. Bug in DLNA where after playing a long time, finishing its queue, then it is silent for over night, then I can’t tap on my “favorite” which points to a DLNA endpoint nor can I tap on the DLNA endpoint, does nothing, refreshing the browser doesn’t fix it, I have to kill the app and then they all work again. 7. The play screen is functional, but it could better highlight the album art larger, move the progress to bottom instead of covering the art… 8. The queue section could allow you to browse all playlists and the current temporary queue in a unified way, then I wouldn’t have to screw up my browsing that I began from Favorites. Fix these and the app will be killer.

I have this app with iOS devices. It has trouble connecting via wifi, but is generally good once the connection is made. I also paid for this app on an android DAP, it connects well with the streamer.But it fails to correctly index hi-res AIFF and WAV files. When I loaded FLAC files, they were correctly indexed, but absolutely ruined with spitting and screeching noise. Other apps sharing the same files do not corrupt the files. Overall, a disappointing experience.

Thanks! - using this app to play my local library on a Sonos Play:1

Thanks for all the work on making this app stable and easy to use. And thanks for Tidal integration- I use it mainly for Chromecasting. This app has the best volume control of any audio player on the iPhone! Very versatile and unique.

When the iPhone is connected via Bluetooth to AirPods, for example, and you want to connect to a renderer, you will get the error message pop up “Please select iPhone/iPad at the airplay device list to connect to a renderer device.” Prior to the unnecessary updates, I could tap on the airplay icon on the top left cover of the iPhone and follow the instructions on the pop up and select iPhone/iPad. Thereafter, I could select the Chord 2Go as the renderer. However, after the updates, the AirPlay icon is gone and you repeatedly get the error message when trying to select any upnp rendering device. To solve the problem, disconnect your Bluetooth device and you can then select the renderer from the upnp list. Please clarify the message pop instructions or revert to previous versions of the app, which worked fine after fixing the queue playlist bug. This app worked very well. It has a simple job as basically a “remote control” to connect NAS to renderer. It doesn’t need to be fancy. Previous review, which was positive: Glad mConnect regularly updates this app and listens to reviews. They fixed how tracks are added to the playing queue. The app works well with my Chord 2Yu streamer. It allows for bit perfect and lossless playback. At this point, I don’t see any need to make changes to the app because it accomplishes the simple task of allowing users to play music from NAS to renderer.

Each revision seems to improve this app.

Glad mConnect regularly updates this app and listens to reviews. They fixed how tracks are added to the playing queue. The app works well with my Chord 2Yu streamer. It allows for bit perfect and lossless playback. At this point, I don’t see any need to make changes to the app because it accomplishes the simple task of allowing users to play music from NAS to renderer.

This has been the best app for streaming Qobuz and tidal to my Denon AVR again. My model is right before they started shipping with HEOS. I can buy the HEOS box for $300 but all it does is exactly what mconnect does upnp stream. Thank you mconnect Devs for making my life easy again. The old Denon apps don’t even work anymore. Works perfectly

Using the app to stream from Qobuz to a Bose 500. A lot of good things but 2 huge drawbacks : 1) when going to the next track the sound is at zero... 2) the Qobuz quality settings are not stored; always revert to mp3 ; boring

The app is too clunky and user experience broken. Needed to stream Qobuz to ifi Zen Stream. And while Sound Quality was good, navigating the app was not. Moving between tabs is sometimes impossible. It freezes often. Loading next track sometimes took ages. And the worst part is that next time the app is launched, it forgets the playlist it was playing from. And since there is no search option within a playlist, one has to start a new search for album in Qobuz, manually add to queue, and endure outdated, 90-s style “confirmed” popups every time that need clicking to go away. Why? Who benefits from this useless action? In summary: the core engine may be good in terms to f SQ, but the poor user experience and lack of stability make it difficult to use this app.