erland wrote: 
> 
> - Is smart playlists supported if I control the player with a tablet and
> use JRiver Media Center as server ?
> 
Sorry Erland, but I don't know what you mean by a "smart playlist"?

erland wrote: 
> 
> - Is Dynamic Playlist plugin provided smart playlists supported if I use
> Whitebear ?
> 
Not currently. This is because your plugin presents itself in the top
level menu of the LMS Web UI, and this makes it difficult for me to
support.
I don't know your plugin well enough to be sure, but I am guessing that
if the dynamic playlist would present itself (say under PlayLists) as a
regular "track" (having a specific "virtual" track_id) then a UPnP CP
could command LMS, via Whitebear and the CLI, to play that "track" as if
it would be a real one. 
Or alternatively perhaps if it would present itself as a remote stream
(having an http url) under Apps, then a UPnP CP could command LMS, via
Whitebear and the CLI, to play that "stream".
Obviously I don't want to hard code anything in Whitebear, so one would
have to find a dynamic way to step down the browse tree (as it already
does in the case of Apps, Podcasts, Radio).

erland wrote: 
> 
> - Do you know if Spotify is supported in any UPnP players ? If it are,
> are those players possible to control with an external UPnP Control
> Point ?
> 
I don't know much about Spotify, so I don't know if there are any UPnP
players that support it natively. 
But even though I don't have a Spotify Account, I can tell you that with
Whitebear, I was able to browse down to "Andrew's
Music->Add-Ins->Apps->Spotify->I don't have an account"..., so I am
guessing the chances are not bad that if I did have an account, I should
be able to browse further down the tree until I got to a playable remote
stream. And if that would be so, then one could use any UPnP CP with
Whitebear as the server to play Spotify either to a Squeeze player or
indeed to any other UPnP player. (Although not knowing Spotify, I can't
say if there may be authentication issues if Whitebear/LMS would be the
browsing agent, and another device (having a different IP address) would
then try to play the stream. It might depend on things like NAT...)

erland wrote: 
> I've tried PlugPlayer and it's was way to buggy for my taste, but I used
> it towards LMS built-in UPnP server so possibly the crashes can have
> been caused, thanks for the tips of the other tablet apps, will take a
> look and see if any of them works better.
> 
Yes, it is indeed buggy.

erland wrote: 
> 
> Why do you use iPeng instead of a UPnP controller ?
> Is it because there isn't anything with the same functionality using
> UPnP or is there some other reason ?

Well basically I like iPeng. 
And as I already have a way to go iPeng->LMS->SqueezePlayer then why would
I want to take the longer path OtherCP->Whitebear->LMS->SqueezePlayer ??


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