erland wrote: > > Now, let's say I would like to replace all this setup with something > completely based on UPnP, are there any recommendations from someone > that believes in UPnP and know it's possible to accomplish something > that works with UPnP ? > Is it even possible to accomplish something similar with a UPnP based > solution ? > In that case what hardware/software do I need to get ? >
Well, I would suggest two solutions: CASE A. IF YOU WANT A PURE UPNP ONLY ENVIRONMENT:[/B] - USE J. RIVER MEDIA CENTER AS YOUR MAIN MEDIA SERVER AND CONTROL POINT - USE WHATEVER UPNP HARDWARE PLAYERS THAT TAKE YOUR FANCY. YOU COULD SELECT FROM SOME OF THE PREVIOUS POSTER'S SUGGESTIONS, OR LOOK AT J. RIVER'S \"MEDIA NETWORK\" FORUMS FOR DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHAT PLAYERS WORK AND WHAT DO NOT. [B]CASE B. IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR SQUEEZEBOXES AND ADD UPNP PLAYERS AND/OR CONTROL POINTS TOO: - Use LMS as your main media server - Use Whitebear i) to integrate your LMS media library into the UPnP world, and ii) to integrate your Squeeze Players into the UPnP world. In both of the above cases, you can have one (or more) tablet or PC based Control Point applications. In case B you need at least one Control Point application. If you are in the Windows world you can use Windows Media Player 12, Asset Control, J. River (used as Control Point only), or Kinsky. Another candidate that I know about, but do not use is XBMC. If you are in the tablet world, there are many choices depending on what OS your machine runs. On the iPad I have Kinsky loaded and also PlugPlay (but to be honest I use iPeng to control the Squeezeplayers directly). Also the previous poster has suggested a few other UPnP Control Points for tablets. I admit that Whitebear is Windows platform specific. Personally I use a small Atom based black box Windows machine (a Shuttle) that runs LMS and Whitebear. Note that there are basically two types of Control Points: a) A few Control Points (the only examples that I know of are J. River and WMP12) create a local image of the attributes of your library. Such CPs create their own browsing experience and have more powerful sorting and searching tools. But when first run, they take a while to browse through your whole library (in a background process) to create the local attributes image of the library. Obviously the local image requires some memory. Here is a screenshot from (for example) Kinsky: 13543 b) Other Control Points (almost any other one than the above mentioed) use a dynamic page-by-page tree based browse algorithm. In such CPs, the browse tree is structured by the server. In the case of Whitebear, it presents the standard LMS top level browse tree Artists, Albums, Genres, Years, Folders, PlayLists, etc. including whatever Favorites and Playlists you may have defined using the Logitech standard UI. And it also has an option (admittedly normally turned off) to present the standard LMS Add-Ins folders (Radio, Podcasts, Apps) in its browse tree. These CPs don't store anything locally (browse tree pages are served one-by-one) and so they can run on light weight machines like phones or tablets. If you specifically want gapless playback then J. River (acting as either Control Point or main library server) plus Whitebear (front end to the Squeeze players) are to be recommended. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: Untitled.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=13543| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrewFG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95603 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
