wtfplay project - it's official

[frd1996]

I am pleased to announce that wtfplay is now official.

wtfplay is my attempt to create minimalist Linux based, PC music playback
environment. Initially I wrote the music player software, later I built a
dedicated Linux distribution for it. It is called wtfplay-live.

In this project, the top priority is the sound quality rather than a number of
features. Try it and let me know what you think.

The downloads and the documentation can be found at http://wtfplay-project.org

The official support thread is on diyaudio:
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pc-based ... ystem.html

I will will be answering some queries there as well.

At this point I would like to thank guys on this forum who have been testing this for me. Many thanks for your valuable feedback.

wtfplay is still work in progress and in time new features will be added to it, so stay tuned for updated.

Enjoy.

F

[Sligolad]

I have to say it has been my great pleasure having the opportunity to get some time with wtfplay at the Beta phase.
Bottom line it is the best player I have heard to date for music reproduction and all other software based players (paid for and free) have been resigned to the bin since I first heard wtfplay.

My tricked (and expensive) dual PC setup has now also been replaced with a single PC made even better by no need for an operating system SSD.
A big recommendation from me!!
Cheers, Pearse.

[nige2000]

whoop whoop!!!!!!
it a long time since i wondered "what was done to get a laptop sounded like that"
to our good fortune it had been adapted, improved and improved for pc :)

this player has the lowest noise operating system for audio pc's that i have tried
other linux players ive tried lack resolution (daphile been the pick of them) but this is comparable to resolution of mqn/jplay but more natural or realistic for a more enlightened and enjoyable experience
there are some settings to play with if you wish but to be honest its just real fine tuning

highly recommended

[Ken Moreland]

Top player! Downloading and setup is so easy and the supporting documentation is excellent.
Highly recommended. Suggest if anyone has any operational difficulties or queries post them in this thread or in the official support forum.

[rickmcinnis]

Even though I have moved on from using the computer there is no question WTF, in my experience, is a revelation.

I look forward to hearing the excitement this player is going to evoke.

The purist's computer player.

If you cannot put up with the limitations that this player imposes you might have to reconsider your audio motivations. I am speaking of UI.

And the best part is, I suspect, it will only get better and better.

Player and OS should be unified - it is the only way.

[cvrle59]

Wow....so simple, so GOOD!!!

[Aleg]

It does need network access.
For me it is unworkable without network access, it can be NFS, but I need to be able to select my files from network drives.

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Update:
Sound quality is very good.
Tested using files that happened to be on my local ssd.

[jrling]

As a tester myself, I complete second sligolad and nige2000's comments, which I couldn't put any better.

The scary bit is that this is just v.1 really. There are definitely more developments in F's mind to come (he won't share them with me!) and other hardware platforms could yield even more amazing results.

F has kept to his minimalistic principles and a big thumbs up from me on that. If you want Networking/fancy graphics with cover art and Internet connection, then look elsewhere.

Thanks F.

Jonathan

[Aleg]

As a tester myself, I complete second sligolad and nige2000's comments, which I couldn't put any better.

The scary bit is that this is just v.1 really. There are definitely more developments in F's mind to come (he won't share them with me!) and other hardware platforms could yield even more amazing results.

F has kept to his minimalistic principles and a big thumbs up from me on that. If you want Networking/fancy graphics with cover art and Internet connection, then look elsewhere.

Thanks F.

Jonathan

No fancy stuff internet graphics or any of those gimmicks.

Just network access to my NAS which is where I maintain my music collection.
Don't feel like running up two flights of stairs just to get another few tracks.

[tony]

Fryderck started this about a year ago and popped around every now and then trying to get a track to play. As Nigel stated he had a working version of sorts at Fran's annual get together that was impressive initially. Testing over the year still had it behind the MQn set up but Fryderck kept plugging away sorting out the bugs etc. I took no notice really let him at it didn't expect the end result Pearse,Ken and Nigel have outlined.

Result is really a big leap and would suggest all the CA men here give it a whirl. There is a learning curve if using command line but SQ is so worth it. It renders 2012R2 and AO unnecesary, runs in ram but no need to go through the whole ramdisk set up. Plays all resolutions and even plays DSD files even though Fryderck hasn't developed that yet.

Looking forward to what people think about it.


Aleg: Suggest getting a USB key and try it and report back. I can see you considering getting a local disk to get around the network issue. Fryderck may work on this type of option going forward but I think most of us will prefer his efforts go on improving what is already possibly the best lager in the world!

Many thanks to Fryderck for the large amount of time and effort he put in to this.