OpenHome support will bring Qobuz to Rigelian
Some great news to share: Rigelian will be entering the streaming arena! Today development of OpenHome support is well underway, which will allow 3 new possibilities: This means that Rigelian can be your one-stop-shop for both your local library as well as the vast online catalog that Qobuz offers. It also opens the door to options to discover new music: find similar artists based on artists in your library, find other albums from artists in your library, etcetera. These functions are already available in Rigelian for your local library, and will be extended to make use of Qobuz as well. […]
Dynamically loading a hierarchical list in SwiftUI
Today’s challenge: use the standard SwiftUI list view to navigate through a folder structure. All examples I could find work based on a pre-defined nested data structure, but that won’t work for a folder / file hierarchy: the nesting can be so deep that loading performance will be not acceptable. Especially when browsing a network share. The solution is to add an onAppear handler that is called whenever an item in the hierarchy is shown, and trigger the load of the children of that node. By using async/await for the loading, the UI stays responsive. The following gist shows an […]
Love my Nova / Kanta’s
Last year, after we moved into our new apartment I pulled the trigger on a new audio system. The convincing arguments were that we sold our old house very well, and that the existing combination of Arcam FMJ A-30 with Focal 736 speakers would be too small for our living room. There are 4 important things I took into account: it needed to sound good, it needed to look good, it needed to be versatile and it needed to be user-friendly. For the looks, I was already in love with the Focal Kanta’s and confident I would like their sound, […]