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  • M2P_USER2025 premium
    23. Mai 2025 at 16:52 #53297

    I am a paying customer and have technical issues that I need getting resolved for my HiFiBerry DAC2 Pro’s. They are not working. I posted in the RaspberryPi sub forum. Any developer still around that can assist? Appreciated.

    ps. the post is still hidden in the RaspberryPi sub forum as it needs approval first.

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    BarberShop premium
    23. Juli 2025 at 10:04 #53317

    I think it is dead, sadly. Time to explore PiCorePlayer I suppose

    MartijnD premium
    3. September 2025 at 21:20 #53324

    I have the same question, I’m loving my max2play devices but the OS’s are so old they are not even supported any more by Debian… no more updates. I have a subscription until somewhere in 2030.
    >> Would be great to see some development! At least port the running stuff to a actual Debian version.

    @Heiner     ????

    @MarioM     ????
    As an alternative, we could abandon max2play and embrace PiCoreplayer is has a recent release (feb 2025)
    https://docs.picoreplayer.org/releases/

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    postjosh premium
    16. Oktober 2025 at 14:47 #53330

    today is the first time i have successfully logged in to the forums in the last month. so i think someone is at least quietly doing some maintenance and keeping the project on standby. it would be helpful if m2p would make some sort of a statement to clarify the status.

    MartijnD premium
    31. Oktober 2025 at 17:45 #53334

    piCorePlayer is the best replacement for max 2 play.

    Having paid for a license until 2030, I really feel BETRAYED by max2play!

    postjosh premium
    31. Oktober 2025 at 18:23 #53335

    i’ve bought so much dead end software over the years that i consider myself satisfied, if software works well for 2 years after i’ve paid. i take all claims of a lifetime license with a grain or two of salt. most developers are dreamers not business people. max2play is still working for my use case five years after i bought it. i’m planning to migrate to picoreplayer when the time comes.

    MartijnD premium
    1. November 2025 at 12:37 #53336

    My concern is that the running devices (yes they still kind of worked) are becoming vulnerable and hereby a big security risk, because they lack OS updates…

    If they make the project opensource, we might be able to port it to newer Debian versions.

    Anyways this project is really lifeless… practically death

    >> piCorePlayer is a great and actively maintained alternative!

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    mrwurst premium
    29. November 2025 at 11:39 #53341

    I don’t think security is an issue here since your machine shouldn’t be exposed to the internet without proper protection anyway. If you lock your front door, you don’t need to lock the doors inside your house.

    I would appreciate it though if they’d make the image for the latest version (2.62) available for download, in case this project and it’s website eventually disappear completely.

    postjosh premium
    29. November 2025 at 16:17 #53342

    there’s a version 2.62? my system stopped updating at 2.59!

    kuky premium
    25. Dezember 2025 at 4:32 #53348

    Sad to let it go, but after I spent 1/2 day poking around trying to update I found out that is Good bye max2play (mine expires in 2032) welcome piCorePlayer. Wow that is a huge improvement since i tested it many years ago – maybe version 1 or 2. Burned the SD card and in few minutes I was up playing from LMS, airplay too for Spotify since the Spotify is also dead!!! on LMS! Time for Tidal and/or Qobuz. Probably Tidal a much better choice for HiRes FLAC (up to 24-bit/192 kHz), Dolby Atmos, and 360 Reality Audio for premium sound.

    BarberShop premium
    27. Dezember 2025 at 19:40 #53349

    I’ve just made the move to PiCore Player – took me a while to get it up and running but it wasn’t too bad. The only thing I can’t figure out is how to access the underlying OS which is so simple in Max2Play. All of the instructions seem to start with commands at the command line

    BarberShop premium
    27. Dezember 2025 at 20:33 #53350

    Well I’ve got to the command line in PiCorePlayer but it seems very restricted – there is no ‚apt‘ command so I can’t install anything else. I still have one Pi 4B with Max2play on that just runs Squeezelite so I’ll hang on to that for now. I might go for a proper OS installation and re-install Squeezelite and the other stuff I want on there.

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