As been said here, UPnP for video is fine if you keep away from large video playlists... but for large categorized (carefully tagged) music libraries the DLNA indexing mechanism leaves a lot to be desired. Searching using the tags is also limitted. I own a Revue (Logitech Google TV) and use a subset of my music library in MP3 format derived from my main FLAC library so that my wife can listen to music using the TV. I tried and failed to maintain a "reliable" music playing setup using a UPnP/DLNA players and servers. I tried LMS with the DLNA server enabled and with the Whitebear server (Whitebear being very reliable), but always found issues related to the UPnP players being unable to maintain a reliable index of the library. Using the Windows Media Player from a PC proved to be the most reliable. If another of my Windows computers with the DLNA server enabled entered the network the players (LMP, aVia, GTVBox) in the Revue would sometimes associate with the Windows computers instead of the LMS server. Indexing would have to be started from scratch every time some communication issue occurred or whenever indexing glitches came up during simple library updates... like adding a new album. Of course, this would always happen when my wife had friends over and wanted to play some music using the Revue. I found that most of players that I tried lacked a settings granularity flexible enough to allow me to display and search my library as I wanted. To make a long story short, I opted to upload my MP3 library to the Google cloud and use Google Music as a player in the Revue instead. It took a long time to upload, but no more indexing issues. The library is rendered quickly with all its album art and all the main tags are displayed correctly.
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