hello , i use the same thing, and it works great, various things can be now
accessible through wireless technology. there is still some glitches but
overall things now can be accessed.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 4:37 AM
Subject: DLNA Devices
Hi!
I've always been fascinated with Media Servers and devices since I bought my
Fritz! Box over 2 and a half years ago.
DLNA is the protocol devices, Media Servers, Computers and Apps use to
communicate with each other.
For example, its now common place for a Smart TV to have DLNA compatibility
on board which allows the browsing and playing of content on a remote Media
Server, this is typically a hard drive or NAS storage unit connected to a
Home Network.
Many devices available are not accessible to these media servers given their
menu systems and no built in speech capabilities so "Dead End" I hear you
cry? Well not quite.
I have quite a few devices which have DLNA compatibility built into them and
I'm able to utilise the DLNA functions of each through DLNA management Apps
on my IOS device.
When the App is launched on say an iPhone it comes up with a list of DLNA
compatible servers attached to your network, these may include hard drives,
computers etc.
From here you select the type of content you wish to see, you can "Browse
Folders" for particular content or select a category such as "Music".
What then is displayed depends very much on the category selected, if you
select "Music" then you'll see various sub categories such as Artist, Album,
Playlist etc.
If you select Playlist then a list of playlists will appear and yo u can
select the appropriate list from here etc.
At this point you can select an output device to play the content to, again
these are DLAN compatible devices which could include your Windows PC, your
Smart TV, a wireless speaker system, a network media player and so on.
Thought some list members may wish to follow this up.
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Dane Trethowan
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