PasTim wrote: > > As a slightly playful experiment I did manage to get sound from > squeezelite to my amplifiers over my wired network without using the > Touch, utilising an over-complicated combination of tools pretending to > be an internet radio, but I couldn't get better quality than mp3 to > work, and I had too many bits of software in the chain to make it > practical (squeezelite to high quality audio, monitored by vlc, streamed > to a local http address, picked up via minimserver in a playlist and > played by my renderer). Any attempt to stream wav (or flac) from vlc > failed, and I'm guessing that is because I don't understand http > streaming technology well enough. However, this really doesn't matter > because this isn't a sensible solution, involving far too many > intermediate steps. > > So, is there any chance that some clever developer could produce > something like squeezelite (so I can continue to use LMS as the > best-in-class server) but get it to stream over a network to a UPnP > renderer at high (but selectable) quality, rather than outputting to a > local audio device? Is the reason no such solution seems to exist is > that there are technical downsides of which I am unaware? Or does > someone out there know of an existing solution? >
Try squeezelite ⟶ ALSA ⟶ PulseAudio (maybe not needed if Rygel accepts ALSA as in input?) ⟶ 'Rygel' (https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Rygel?action=show&redirect=Rygel) ⟶ DLNA/UPnP Downside will be that player synchronization will not work properly with any of these solutions. [ extGUI4LMS - an alternative web interface: 'forum' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98186-Announce-Alternative-Web-Interface-(beta)) / 'homepage' (http://code.google.com/p/extgui4lms/) ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56808 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101622 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
