lrossouw wrote: > Using UPnP like you suggest you lose a lot of features. Including sync, > etc. Lot of upnp players are also fairly difficult with different > formats etc. > I don't need sync, since I tend to sit down and listen to music rather than wander from room to room. In my fairly small house I can wind up the volume if I have to!.
I can't think of any other feature I'd lose, but I'd be happy to be disabused of this notion if someone knows better. My understanding is that all UPnP players accept a stream in lpcm/wav format, which is all I need. Certainly both of mine do with no problems at all. The benefit of the foobar2000 'Playback Stream Capture' facility is that it can avoid almost all the format issues by streaming pcm/wav. That way I don't need an extra box, yet another operating system, cabling options and so on, which is just what I want to avoid. All that extra kit is more to go wrong, and more to get in the way of what ought, superficially at least, to be the most direct, simple, and therefore reliable, solution. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi running Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. Wired Touch + EDO, coax to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC. Wireless Xubuntu 14.04 laptop controls LMS via Chromium. Meridian Explorer USB DAC to listen via Squeezelite on Vortexbox & other PCs as required. Spare Touch in loft. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 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
