Streaming Services & technologies

The following streaming services and technologies are available on LUMIN players.
Some services may require a subscription payment.

TIDAL

Subscription-based lossless and MQA music streaming service

What is TIDAL

No compromise. With TIDAL’s lossless audio experience, you can enjoy your music the way the artists intended on LUMIN. TIDAL on LUMIN lets you play all your favorite music in High Fidelity sound quality. Choose from millions of tracks, and get behind the music with expertly Curated Editorial recommendations, album presentations, playlists, articles, features and interviews by experienced music journalists.

What countries can get TIDAL

See a list here

LUMIN + TIDAL

TIDAL is built right into the heart of the LUMIN App, featuring the same LUMIN browsing interface and searching capabilities. You can mix playlists between local music and TIDAL music seamlessly and you can even save playlists back to your TIDAL account.

A TIDAL subscription also includes access to Hi-Res FLAC 'MAX' and MQA 'Masters' albums.

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TIDAL Connect for LUMIN models launched after 2018

Subscription-based music streaming service

What is TIDAL Connect

TIDAL Connect is a technology built into the LUMIN Firmware that allows the TIDAL App to be used to control LUMIN and TIDAL users and subscribers to stream their library of 70 million songs directly to LUMIN hardware.

See the TIDAL section below for more information

LUMIN + TIDAL Connect

With support for TIDAL Connect, you can choose LUMIN X1 / P1 / T3 / T2 / D3  / U2 / U2 Mini / U1x / U1 / U1 MINI  as playback devices from within the TIDAL App.
Note that models with the original system architecture S1 / A1 / T1 / D1 / D2 / M1 are not supported.

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QOBUZ

Subscription-based lossless and Hi-Res music streaming service

What is Qobuz

Qobuz is a high-quality music platform. Pioneer of high quality sound since 2007, the French platform offers a unique and exclusive music experience. Qobuz gives music lovers and audiophiles access to an unparalleled wealth of content: a rich and eclectic catalogue of more than 90 million tracks available in the best sound quality (Hi-Res and CD) and original editorial content written by a team of experts, passionate about music.

What countries can get Qobuz

Available in 25 countries, in Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and Japan (Hi-Res download service only), Qobuz is also the only company in the world to offer streaming and download music in high resolution (24-Bit / up to 192 kHz).

LUMIN + Qobuz

Qobuz is built right into the heart of the LUMIN App, featuring the same LUMIN browsing interface and searching capabilities. You can mix playlists between local music and Qobuz music seamlessly and you can even save playlists back to your Qobuz account.

All Qobuz subscriptions include the highest quality Hi-Res (24-bit and up to 192 kHz) and CD quality (16-bit/44,1 kHz).

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Roon

Subscription-based music management service

What is Roon

Roon is the most engaging, enjoyable way to browse your music.

Being Roon Ready means that LUMIN network music players transparently discover and connect to Roon, with no network configuration, with bit-perfect delivery of audio to your dac.

Together, Roon and LUMIN deliver the power, flexibility, and performance benefits of networked audio, with the easiest setup and highest reliability available.

LUMIN + Roon

LUMIN is Roon Ready and in combination with the Roon Core and Controller can provide powerful internet-enabled music browsing and discovery. In addition, the Roon Core can also perform real-time DSD128 conversion and DSP processing for room correction, equalizing, and more.

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Spotify

Subscription-based music streaming service

What is Spotify

Spotify is a digital music streaming service that gives you access to millions of songs, podcasts and videos from artists all over the world.

LUMIN + Spotify Connect

With support for Spotify Connect, you can choose LUMIN as a playback device from within the Spotify App.


The Spotify software is subject to third party licenses found here: http://www.spotify.com/connect/third-party-licenses

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Plex

Multi-platform music management service

What is Plex

Plex is a popular music management service that combines a user's own video, audio, and photos with online streaming services. Controlling apps are available for mobile devices, smart TVs, streaming boxes, web browsers and more.

There are free and subscription-based options.

LUMIN + Plex

LUMIN is the first (and only) high-end audio system that can discover and connect to Plex. No network configuration is required and delivery is bit-perfect.

With the recent launch of Plexamp, Plex have created a music-only platform which is graphically rich and internet-enabled to include Music Recommendations, Artwork & Tag Database, Lyrics, Radio Stations, and more! It also means that LUMIN can be controlled on a wide range of devices, from Linux computers and Smart TVs to web browsers and Raspberry Pi.

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Master Quality Authenticated (MQA)

High Resolution Streaming technology

What is MQA

MQA is a revolutionary technology that brings the listener as close as possible to the artist’s original performance. Using pioneering scientific research into how people hear, MQA technology captures the full magic of the original audio performance, in a file that’s small enough to stream or download. The days of sacrificing quality for convenience are over.

LUMIN + MQA

LUMIN network music players can automatically perform Core Decoding and Hardware Rendering of MQA-encoded streams to get the maximum available Hi-Res music data (up to 24-bit 384kHz).

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AirPlay-comptibility

Apple local network streaming technology

What is AirPlay

AirPlay is a proprietary protocol developed by Apple Inc. that allows wireless streaming between devices of audio, video, device screens, and photos, together with related metadata.

LUMIN + AirPlay

LUMIN is an AirPlay-compatible receiver. Streaming to LUMIN is lossless providing that the iPhone/iPad is set to maximum volume. LUMIN will appear on your iOS device with the name you have given it in the LUMIN App settings.

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TuneIn Radio

Free radio streaming service

What is TuneIn

TuneIn enables people to discover, follow and listen to what's most important to them — from sports, to news, to music, to talk. TuneIn provides listeners access to over 100,000 real radio stations and more than four million podcasts streaming from every continent.

LUMIN + TuneIn

TuneIn is built right into the heart of the LUMIN App. Simply create a free TuneIn account and add Radio Stations to your TuneIn 'Library' for them to appear in the LUMIN App.

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