![]() ![]() It can provide access to both album and radio artwork - VLC for instance can display the radio artwork from this souce which RA can't at the moment.ħ. Since it is a central resouce accessed by potentially many clients, the library structure, artwork, tagging etc only needs to be done and stored once but is then available to all clients which access this source.Ħ. Its seems, to me, to have superior tagging to MPDĤ. It can be accessed by a variety of music player software and media servers on machines with differing OSes (VLC, Windows Media Player, Music Bee, Kinsky/Kazoo, BubbleUPnP Server, Smart TV apps etc)ģ. MinimServer provides a central repository of my music library which only needs loading once from my existing NAS based music library via NFSĢ. If I may, can I make a few points about Minimserver? Here goes:ġ. Which is essentially what I implemented in 2016. Out of interest the url you listed in your latest posting actually proposes Minimserver as a way to listen to these radio stations (Post on, by bobovox on Feb 16) which eventually ends up at: Thank you for pointing out that other options now exist and I will explore these now that I seem to have a fully working RA+Re3 again. ![]() The Minimserver impelementation had worked well for me for all those years and hence I had had no need to explore addtional URLs. I have been doing it this way since RA 0.3/0.4 (around September 2016) and it was purely a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Yes I am in thbe UK and upto last week all was working well with streaming BBC National and local radio stations via Minimserver. Thanks for sorting this asked: 'I am still not clear why you don't just get the streams direct from the BBC, if you are in the UK?' The MPD + Upmpdcli (another UPnP renderer) based suggestions still require you to somehow install and run a UPnP/DLNA media server.As noted by R101, the changes in today's release (20200406) seem to have fixed my problems with web radios but, like R101, the station name is missing from the Playback screen. However, specifically HQPlayerd has problems being used as a UPnP renderer with the UPnPBridge plugin - recently given up trying: LMS is not a native UPnP/DLNA media server and requires the long unsupported old UPnP/DLNA Media Interface LMS plugin to be enabled to provide a true UPnP media server.Īlternatively, using LMS with the excellent UPnPBridge LMS plugin would normally allow you to connect a UPnP renderer and therefore use the UPnP renderer as if it were a Squeezebox. VortexBox, Daphile and any other distro that contains the Logitech Media Server (normally used with Squeezebox type streamers) may well prove problematic. Even then, Volumio is intended to be mainly used as a UPnP renderer in its own right, with the built-in UPnP/DLNA media server, MiniDLNA, provided as an afterthought/convenience for those that wish to run an all in one device - so don't expect any serious support for it. None of the suggestions so far provide a native UPnP/DLNA media server, apart from Volumio. Hence don't expect "Music Server experts" to know anything about UPnP media servers.Īlso, you'll likely get more relevant replies if you post any UPnP/DLNA streaming related queries in the 'Networking, Networked Audio and Streaming' section, rather the 'Music Servers' section. Plus, to configure remotely, you need to install its own configuration software (MinimWatch) on the other machine, rather than configure it via a web browser.īTW, try not to think that UPnP renderers can somehow be served like a DAC connected to an audio system by a 'traditional' computer based music server running audio file playing software. It does require the Java runtime to also be installed. I've run MinimServer headless before, without any issues, on a Raspberry Pi under Raspbian (Jessie) - so I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to do the same on a NUC. If that's the case, then you'd be pushed to find a better UPnP media server for music than the audio file dedicated MinimServer: I believe what you are actually after is a UPnP media server. I don't get the question, especially with you referring to those UPnP renderers.
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