![]() ![]() It is to use the Netbook platform using JRiver as stand-alone or Linux as the OS which ever is easier yet achieve what we want. Thanks for the response, I suppose I am a little ambitious considering the number devices window based platform already supported out there.įortunately there is a another solution(not so ambitious yet achieve our aim) is use a cheap hardware platform and yet powerful enough to get the audiophile sound and media features which already provided by JRiver. ![]() And I'm not sure how much audiophile DLNA (non-proprietary) equipment there is as yet.īut JRiver MC has to be the most powerful and easily set-up DLNA server as yet (for example, I found Twonky, Squeeze and XBMC really difficult to set up and understand and they still can't index my collection the way I want it), get in there early lads and allow it to be installed on NAS's! I'm not sure how far advanced the DLNA market is yet though, TVs with DLNA built-in are certainly very patchy in their compatibility. If you want a high-end DAC then buy one! As long as it can act as a DLNA renderer. I'm not sure about such a port being able to render media as the OP has suggested to go the whole hog of competing with high-end music servers to the extent of supporting/providing hardware as well, what I'm suggesting is a DLNA server that simply serves the content directory and files and transcodes as necesssary, and you can mix and match to your own rendering and controlling software/hardware. This would have the huge advantage of not having to keep a separate power-hungry PC or Mac on all the time.īundled and free servers do not have the customisation facilities necessary for "serious" use, only allowing indexing by track artist, album and genre for example. The way I was thinking was a port of the server and database components to Linux, so that JRiver can be installed on NAS's in a similar way to Twonky, Squeezeserver etc, to replace the many dismal attempts at a DLNA server that is bundled with such devices. I've thought about a similar thing but been too scared to mention it in case someone hits me! (virtually) ![]() I think a dedicated and a stand-alone J River media center will rival these music servers.Īnyone care to comment please feel free to do so. It is also a very cheap alternative to buying a commercial music server. There are so many users who have at least 1 PC may it be a Desktop or Laptop, and using it as dedicated music server seems obvious esp. I think the difficult is that there are so many drivers which the J River must communicate with e.g. Obviously it must be able to communicate with external devices as well e.g. ![]() I think J River is an idea s/w platform that can be adapted to run as a stand-alone program(without the overheads of Win XP or 7), that will produce audiophile quality o/p data stream to an external DAC via the USB port. I think there is a market for a high quality music server software which can operate on Window based hardware platform which out running Window OS such as XP or win 7. There are already many stand-alone music server now available(flooding!) in the market ranging from Olive($999) to AudioNec($18,000). This my first time here I am not sure whether anyone has covered the same ground as I will explain here. ![]()
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