naughty001
Expert Member
For people who have purchased USB Audio Player Pro (UAPP) for their android phones you can now use it on your TV box as well - there is a version available that will allow you to use it but you need to have purchased the full version for your phone first (it isn't very expensive) and it will work concurrently on all devices logged into the Google account that was used to purchase it
https://www.extreamsd.com/index.php/install-on-android-tv
If you do want to use it then you need to actually have a fair amount of storage on your TV box because it doesn't allow you to browse to any external storage devices connected to the box so it needs to be internal storage or else formatted as internal storage (microSD card, Flash drive or even maybe hard drives but it has to be formatted as internal storage)
So with the warning out of the way - here is a bit more about the app :
After installing it you get an Icon on the homepage more-or-less the same as the one you would see on your phone. On the website they do warn you that you will need access to a mouse as well as using your remote to control the app - this is because the app was originally designed for touchscreen interfaces and it is very (and i mean "very") complex and frustrating to browse with the remote only ..... it can be done and i have managed to figure my way around it mostly but if you are the type of person who likes to work fast and if waiting for things to happen is a problem then better you connect a keyboard and mouse to the TV box either via USB (if you have a USB hub connected to your box and can spare the USB port BUT remember you will need a DAC connected and this could need another USB Port)
so once you enter the app and enter the apps home page you can then browse around this by clicking the 3 horizontal strips on the top left - i used my PC to add some music onto a flash drive and then i used the file manager to transfer that music to the internal storage and into the Music folder - the scan functionality isn't working too well so for the moment so i just manually browse to that music folder and select whatever i want to listen to from there
browsing t the tabs at the very bottom and clicking on the icon that looks like a musical note will take you to the queue and the one that has the icon looking like buildings will take you to volume, EQ and Headphone adjustments - obviously the house icon takes you back to the app home page if you are manually selecting your tracks
then this what the playback interface looks like ie much like every phone app that you use - most of it should be self explanatory there
at the moment i have sold all my external DACs but hopefully by the time i get one the app would have moved further toward completion ie and will allow either network connection so you can use UPNP for file transfer from external storage or will allow for direct access to external storage (which for the moment it doesn't allow BUT they are working on it) so for now i am happy that the App exists and i can keep transferring deleting music as i need it/don't need it - the DAC will work (we are testing the DAC connections on a friends setup .... he told me about the TV box version of the app and he still has 4 or 5 working DACs - i might borrow on from him for testing purposes
) So i will follow up on this with more info once i have tested the DAC and how it works
The reason that you want the DAC is because all music playback is eventually analog but its stored on the PC digitally - every device that has speakers or uses apps to playback music have DACs but depending on what the device is originally for those DACs are generally of the cheap and nasty type (just to give you sound) so you want something like the type of DAC that you would find in a high end CD player so the eventual output to your Hi-Fi amplifiers are going to be very similar to the sound produced by a high end CD player) and yes i have done this millions of times with a PC/Laptop/microserver using Foobar 2000 ..... the reason why UAPP is important in these Android devices is that it adds the relevant Audio drivers for the DAC connection (windows is easier because you will generally find drivers for everything easily)
EDIT : and yes i am totally aware that entry level streamers like Wiim etc are easily available and pretty cheap but i'm pursuing this as a matter of interest and seeing if i can eventually achieve my aim of making a TV streaming box into an all-in-one device for all forms of media playback (like my Microserver used to be Though the Microserver could also hold all the hard drives for the external storage so that fitted the all-in-one theme better)
https://www.extreamsd.com/index.php/install-on-android-tv
If you do want to use it then you need to actually have a fair amount of storage on your TV box because it doesn't allow you to browse to any external storage devices connected to the box so it needs to be internal storage or else formatted as internal storage (microSD card, Flash drive or even maybe hard drives but it has to be formatted as internal storage)
So with the warning out of the way - here is a bit more about the app :
After installing it you get an Icon on the homepage more-or-less the same as the one you would see on your phone. On the website they do warn you that you will need access to a mouse as well as using your remote to control the app - this is because the app was originally designed for touchscreen interfaces and it is very (and i mean "very") complex and frustrating to browse with the remote only ..... it can be done and i have managed to figure my way around it mostly but if you are the type of person who likes to work fast and if waiting for things to happen is a problem then better you connect a keyboard and mouse to the TV box either via USB (if you have a USB hub connected to your box and can spare the USB port BUT remember you will need a DAC connected and this could need another USB Port)
so once you enter the app and enter the apps home page you can then browse around this by clicking the 3 horizontal strips on the top left - i used my PC to add some music onto a flash drive and then i used the file manager to transfer that music to the internal storage and into the Music folder - the scan functionality isn't working too well so for the moment so i just manually browse to that music folder and select whatever i want to listen to from there
browsing t the tabs at the very bottom and clicking on the icon that looks like a musical note will take you to the queue and the one that has the icon looking like buildings will take you to volume, EQ and Headphone adjustments - obviously the house icon takes you back to the app home page if you are manually selecting your tracks
then this what the playback interface looks like ie much like every phone app that you use - most of it should be self explanatory there
at the moment i have sold all my external DACs but hopefully by the time i get one the app would have moved further toward completion ie and will allow either network connection so you can use UPNP for file transfer from external storage or will allow for direct access to external storage (which for the moment it doesn't allow BUT they are working on it) so for now i am happy that the App exists and i can keep transferring deleting music as i need it/don't need it - the DAC will work (we are testing the DAC connections on a friends setup .... he told me about the TV box version of the app and he still has 4 or 5 working DACs - i might borrow on from him for testing purposes
) So i will follow up on this with more info once i have tested the DAC and how it worksThe reason that you want the DAC is because all music playback is eventually analog but its stored on the PC digitally - every device that has speakers or uses apps to playback music have DACs but depending on what the device is originally for those DACs are generally of the cheap and nasty type (just to give you sound) so you want something like the type of DAC that you would find in a high end CD player so the eventual output to your Hi-Fi amplifiers are going to be very similar to the sound produced by a high end CD player) and yes i have done this millions of times with a PC/Laptop/microserver using Foobar 2000 ..... the reason why UAPP is important in these Android devices is that it adds the relevant Audio drivers for the DAC connection (windows is easier because you will generally find drivers for everything easily)
EDIT : and yes i am totally aware that entry level streamers like Wiim etc are easily available and pretty cheap but i'm pursuing this as a matter of interest and seeing if i can eventually achieve my aim of making a TV streaming box into an all-in-one device for all forms of media playback
(like my Microserver used to be Though the Microserver could also hold all the hard drives for the external storage so that fitted the all-in-one theme better)
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because even using Tidal it will still only sound as good as the hardware and ancillarry equipment will allow it to sound - connect up any device to a stupid boomy old boombox and it will still sound like a stupid old boomy boombox so Tidal is not the deciding factor and this is what your lack of brain doesn't allow you to understand