This has nothing to do with the Squeezebox ecosystem, but I have been trying various types of UPnP server and control-point/renderers.
I have a MediaTomb server running on my NAS (Buffalo link-station) which scans the same flac library that I normally use for SC. I was only able to get an album list when browsing from XBMC, no artist nor genre views were obtainable and album art was completely missing. Playback of albums worked as you would expect, however. Last night I tried Asset UPnP server from dBPoweramp http://www.dbpoweramp.com/asset-upnp-dlna.htm, once again using XBMC as the renderer. Things were much better! I could browse by Album, Artist, Genre and various other types of query and all my cover art was correctly displayed. This combination made a solid audio client-sever solution and XBMC made some nice eye-candy in the process. All this doesn't have a huge amount of relevance, since I will not be tempted away from my Squeezebox system which is working so well. But it interested me to learn that the UPnP/DNLA approach to serving music doesn't have to suck as badly as my previous experiences had caused me to believe. -- dsdreamer ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65683 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
