You absolutely can't go wrong at those kinds of prices, even if you'll not get a Roon-like UI or overall experience, but at that spend it doesn't really matter, these programs can at least buy time even if someday a move to Roon is in the cards.įor me personally, it's bought 6 or so years, when I made the switch from iTunes and AirPlay as my server/streamer arrangement. I personally paid $10 for Asset, on some special offer as a previous buyer of dBPoweramp. The same developer offers dBPoweramp, another good program. That would not be Roon, nor Audirvana either.Īsset, Minim, and JRiver all fit that bill, and are in very wide use on the Raspberry Pi hardware, though certainly many years ago that might not have been the case when you made the move to Roon.Īsset is $37 and you get 5 licenses for that, any and all Windows, macOS, Linux (including Raspberry Pi) machines can run it, and it does work well. Really I just use the JRemote control point app to browse and play music from the server, or for that matter BubbleUPnP and mconnect also both work very well with JRiver as server, while adding Qobuz (or TIDAL) access to the picture.īut the OP's thread topic/question here was quite specific, it's asking which DLNA/UPnP media server is recommended for hi-rez and specifically DSD compatibility, and can run on a NAS or Raspberry Pi. I didn't really have gripes with Asset, it ran just fine for me as a headless server, but in the end I decided to go with the Raspberry Pi version of JRiver and it offers the choice of headless or GUI, I opt for the GUI even though typically barely ever look at it. You will notice that WMP completely ignores MM's sort order and sorts the tracks according to its own settings you can also change the order in WMP after the track list has been retrieved.Click to expand.Both MinimServer and AssetUPnP have supported DSD for a very long time now, though in the case of Asset only the paid or "Premium" version. If you're using Windows 7 you can also point Windows Media Player to the MediaMonkey server. The tracks should appear on your PS3 sorted by Album Artist, then Album, then Disc# and finally Track# if they don't there might be a bug in MediaMonkey and you should submit a debug log (see Lowlander's post above).įor testing reasons you might also want to use a different sort order in MediaMonkey. Point your PS3 to MediaMonkey and choose the node "Music".Ħ. Hold down the CTRL key and left-click "Album", "Disk#" and "Track#" one after the other.ĥ. Left-click the column header "Album Artist".Ĥ. Open the node "Music" in list view ("Show Details").ģ. Enable sharing in MediaMonkey and share the node "Music".Ģ. To check if that works you can try the following:ġ. In that case a server will use its own sort criteria (some servers like certain versions of Twonky even ignore the client's request and always use their own criteria).Īs Lowlander stated in one of his posts above MediaMonkey will submit the tracks to the client in the sort order of the corresponding node. This indicates that the PS3 does not submit sort criteria. All have sorted correctly, Artist - Album - Track, except Media Monkey. In my case the client (PS3) I've used PS3 media server, tvMobli, Nero Media Server, and Media Monkey. If you have a smartphone you can use an app like 2Player, UPnPlay, BubbleUPnP, AndroMote or media:connect to control the sort order. Overriding the external control point with the client's built-in UPnP ControlPoint, however, is always possible. It looks as though a similar feature is planned for a future version of MediaMonkey. Windows Media Player 12 for example has a built-in control point named "Play to" which "pushes" a playlist to a client. "Pushing" content to a client (technically: the UPnP MediaRenderer part of the device) is possible, but requires a separate (external) UPnP ControlPoint. Most clients also offer a shuffle mode which plays the tracks in random order regardless the sort order submitted by the server. Some clients play the content of a list of songs exactly as it has been submitted to them by the server, others sort it alphabetically or by track number. The sort order thus is defined by the client alone. Technically spoken a DLNA client is both a UPnP MediaRenderer and a UPnP ControlPoint therefore a DLNA server (technically: UPnP-AV Media Server) can't control the manner in which a client handles the information the server has sent. UPnP-AV is not a push service (= server pushes content to client) but a pull service (= client pulls content from server). Some of you obviously haven't fully understood the concept of MediaMonkey's method of sharing media (which is UPnP-AV/ DLNA).
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