Install HQPlayer's Network Audio Adapter

[Ben-M]

I'm not sure of the best place for this, but it's HQPlayer related, so I'm hoping this is it. 

It's alright to post here as people looking for HQPlayer is likely to hit this NAA link.
 

I want to install the full, HQPlayer Embedded on Snakeoil OS, so that I can do the upsampling on a purpose built Linux machine vs. Windows. Then from there I'll stream to an HQPlayer NAA device to feed my DAC. 

I don't see any option for this, but how could I do it? 

For now just install HQPlayer as per their website instructions. Once the software is installed, SnakeoilOS will see it, and the option will appear in the servers list. You'd need the 64 bit Snakeoil OS to get this working (as Signalyst only have a 64 bit version of this software).
 

PS: I need to upsample to DSD512 for my DAC (T+A DAC 8 DSD) and I know I'll need an i7 for this vs. your recommended i3 or Atom CPUs.

For this purpose you'd need an i7, probably a good Xeon even.

Awesome, thanks a lot for getting back to me about that. I'll see if I can install Snakeoil OS over the next few weeks. Things are a little too busy with work right now for the time, but I'm super pumped to hear that it's a mostly straight forward install. 

And yeah, I'll be going with an i7-8700K for the upsampling computer. For the NAA I've already got a Windows based system I need to use until T+A update their DAC's firmware to allow it to receive DSD512 from Linux.

Just regarding CPU choice for the upsampling, the clockspeed vs. core count is more important for HQPlayer upsampling, so Xeons don't really offer much compared to highend i7s. Then the CUDA offload isn't a silver bullet either. The CPU is still the main workhorse, and then in some unique situations the GPU might sync up well with the CPU and be able to relieve some of the computational stress/add value. However, for the most part the CPU alone is the right bet and the GPU should only be reviewed after the fact. And with the GPUs, it seems only the uber highend Nvidias are very applicable to the task, so you can't even try to bootstrap a lower end CPU with a GPU to reach a higher level. 

I hope some of that is useful to some others who are hunting around the net for audiophile OS info and how to upsample audio via HQPlayer on Windows or Linux.

I'll be sure to drop by again once I make some progress and let you/everyone know how it's going.