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I'm writing about this, as I feel it may help other headphone junkys that want to stream lossless music without too many new devices and say: use stuff you already have.

When I was looking to getting a decent music library system, I settled on JRiver and bought the Windows package.
What is really awesome about this is that JRiver has a very useful and stable iPad app called JRmote, which is free.

With JRemote, you can control any of your JRiver apps and or libraries. I started off with having a separate library on each device, but this is simply not necessary and quite frankly not only a waste of hard disk space, but also data redundancy creaps in - if you only have one source library, you can easily do maintenance one time and delete stuff that you dont like, once. Also, this makes backups easier too.

Well, this brings me to the next benefit of JRemote on your iPad and the main purpose of this post: If you have iPad-friendly headphones, you can use JRemote on your iPad to stream music from your main library somewhere in the house, directly to your iPad and listen to any of your songs on your iPad - lossless!

I have not experienced any problems with it, there is no lag and it sounds really good IMHO. It obviously uses your iPad's dac and headphone amp, but you can probably add a HP amp if your headphones requires one.

This setup is super convenient, since I can now browse and listen, all on the same device. When you select music, the song starts playing and it downloads the full song to memory which takes about 5-8 seconds here by me and then only 'pulls' the next track's data as it needs to start playing. JRemote indicates this with an additional green line directly under the track play progress bar.

On JRemote, under 'Zone', you just choose 'this device' and the music will actually be played directly on your iPad (or iPhone or Android device I would imagine). I use an iPad Air 2 and it sounds pretty decent. You can also turn the iPad screen off while listening and it will happily continue playing.

This also means that you dont have to convert your music to Apple playable formats, or even have a device with lots of storage space - just do it on the fly.



 

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