Hi Gary, I’ve had the same issues recently, it’s been fairly widely reported across a number of manufacturers not just Innuos. Qobuz have seemingly have had a few issues recently as they upgraded their systems, all seems to have settled down over the last few days but maybe a few lingering problems. In my case it appears all the albums that were problematic are now ok.
It could be related to the ongoing playback issues experienced by Qobuz users, primarily caused by corrupted or incomplete audio files due to a caching problem with the content delivery network (CDN).
@Farthings-cat Can you give us an example of a Qobuz playlist or album that fails?
For me, “Stepping Out: The very best of Joe Jackson” skips from track 2 to 3 half way through the song “Sunday Papers” on an Innuos Zen, firmware version 3.4.2, streaming with the Sense app.
Streaming to my Naim NSS333 using the Naim app, playing the same tracks from Qobuz works fine.
It seems to do it on all albums and play lists via quobuz - currently playing “80s synth pop” playlist and track 2 OMD just jumped but the issue isn’t always repeatable which makes me wonder if it’s a network problem but the internet seems to tell me it’s a quobuz issue.
It all worked flawlessly up until I did the Innuos latest update.
I always use the sense app as it sounds better then the Naim up and I prefer its UI.
The problem is that it doesn’t seem to be the same issues for everybody. For example, I can play the Joe Jackson tracks that @malfordlad refers to on my Innuos Statement/Nagra DAC from Qobuz via Sense, standalone/no UPNP. Most of the recent issues I’ve been having with Qobuz appear to be resolved.
Obviously something has been amiss with Qobuz given the number of issues that have been reported, things seem to be improving but not quite 100%.
I’ve had issues too and it’s not an Innuos problem - has been same on the same tracks when playing on phone/car etc - only occasionally and the ones that were an issue seem to have been fixed so think it was temporary.
There is a thread on the Innuos forum about Qobuz playback issues. I put my findings into it last night, Innuos are usually active when issues are reported there.
I think there is a possibility of a fault in their SenseUPNP feature as I see this problem only when playing from the Zen over ethernet to the Naim streamer. Unfortunately I don’t have easy access to a USB DAC to eliminate this fault option.
Thanks. There are a few albums that I marked as Qobuz favourites in Innuos Sense which are no longer available. That is annoying in itself. Some of the Qobuz playlists have tracks missing. And then there is this issue with tracks stopping early, about half way through.
The first two issues, albums and tracks no longer available I think are down to Qobuz not Innuos, it is annoying though. The last issue of tracks stopping early or skipping tracks etc seems to be a Qobuz issue which they have reported was a result of a ‘caching anomaly’ which they are working towards resolving.
I have Innuos Zenith mk3 updated with latest software. I also only use Sense to control however I only play music that has been ripped onto the Innuos and do not stream. No problems here. Supports your view that it is likely to be a Qobuz issue.