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, […]
Experimental Naim Support
Earlier this year I bought a beautiful Naim Uniti Nova for our living room. In combination with Kanta 2 speakers it sounds fantastic, but I’m less enthusiastic about the accompanying app. Rigelian was the natural candidate to improve on this, so for the last half year I’ve been working on adding support for it in combination with UPnP. Apps like mconnect work as UPnP control point, effectively sitting between a UPnP media server (the music files) and a UPnP renderer (the player). A control point provides music files to the renderer one by one, so it needs to be running […]
New app: Tunica
2 weeks ago I got an idea for a new app, which combines 2 technologies: VisionKit which supports live text recognition, and MusicKit which supports integration of AppleMusic into an app. I got the idea after seeing the great app Cibo, which lets you scan a restaurant menu, and shows images of the dishes on the menu. The app is named Tunica, with the tagline listen to what you read about. It’s like Shazam for text: point your camera at an album title or artist name, and immediately you will see a list of matches from AppleMusic, and listen to […]