Tidal via Spark iOS - "data not Available"

[Antoine]

We live in a multi-device, multi-tasking age. Probably 99.999% of the people in the world would cry havoc if the music stops whenever they close or minimize a control app. That's why there's not a single control app out there that does this. At least I can't think of one among the popular ones for uPnP/DLNA. Don't see why Spark should behave differently.

If you want the music to stop indeed press stop or pause and then close the app.

Edit: above includes Jriver's JRemote and Gizmo which Sekrit as JRiver user must be familiar with.

Here comes another Devialet "lover"...   

When I close Jriver, it stops the music.  Because it is smart enough to understand that I am done listening music. That's what it is supposed to do.  If I wanted to continue to listen music, I would leave it open.   Do you comprehend the logic behind this? It's a bit complex.

Why the aggressive/disrespectful, condescending tone to anyone who does not agree with you?

JRemote doesn't and that compares most to Spark IMO. Any -music player- like JRiver, Foobar etc. you close on a computer will stop the music since there's no more active code or need to keep the music playing. Like Johnnydev wrote, Spark is a control app to control playback of your Phantom which can autonomously play music and also be controlled by several different devices at the same time.

Before you say JRiver is more than a music player, I agree, and I've personally always found it weird and annoying (when I still used the software) that it stops music playback when you close the front end/GUI while it is also active/running as a media server (which is running as a service).

Perhaps you could ask Devialet to include an option to stop the music at closing the application running on PC/Mac. It'll accomplish a lot more than just complaining about it here, which will accomplish nothing.