I feel a bit bad about posting this to diyaudio, but you are my bros, so even if this is not DIY in the soldering sense I need some help putting this together.
[OOOO] <= 200 GB of nicely tagged flac music is here. [OOOO] <= my Dad with his Nexus7 tablet is here, while his hifi audio system is here => [0000]
In the vernacular, what I want - what he wants - is to click on an app in his Nexus7, find his music, put together a playlist, and have it piped to the audio system.
In technical jargon as I currently understand it, he wants to use his Android tablet as a control point to read flac files from a music server to send to a renderer attached to, or replacing, his stereo preamplfier.
The music library is essentially fixed in size. He has settled on flac format. Classical. Typically he won't play a full CD but rather a few tracks from one and a few from another. If we are looking at additional features, then the ability to play internet radio or podcasts and similar would be a plus. It has to be simple to put together and maintain. The size of the library is small enough that it could be put on a USB drive, certainly an SSD. In normal operation the process should not involve turning on a computer.
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We've been thinking along the lines of a uPnP/DLNA setup, with a simple NAS adapter and USB drive as the server, and [something like Chromecast Audio] as the renderer. Problems have arisen on all three fronts: simple aka cheapo NAS storage adapters may not work as media servers, we haven't found any good uPnP control point apps, and what to use as a renderer eludes us. (I should add here that I have managed to use my Windows PC as a server and send mp3s from there to my Chromecast Audio using AirWire or BubbleuPnP installed on my Nexus tablet. So we aren't totally hopeless here, just we are kinda stuck. I can not, for example, get flacs or wavs to play, only mp3s.)
The other option would be buy a network preamplifier with a USB port and plug the media in directly. My understanding is that leaves you using the manufacturer-supplied software as the control point, which may be less than ideal.
Finally, we could I suppose bite the bullet and set up a full-blown network server on a decent NAS, and use Plex or Kodi or something of that line.
I have no idea, as I write this, which of those three options I should even be looking at. So any help on that score would be appreciated.
On a more granular level, are there any good uPnP control point apps for android you can recommend, especially for classical music?
TIA
Richard Murdey
[OOOO] <= 200 GB of nicely tagged flac music is here. [OOOO] <= my Dad with his Nexus7 tablet is here, while his hifi audio system is here => [0000]
In the vernacular, what I want - what he wants - is to click on an app in his Nexus7, find his music, put together a playlist, and have it piped to the audio system.
In technical jargon as I currently understand it, he wants to use his Android tablet as a control point to read flac files from a music server to send to a renderer attached to, or replacing, his stereo preamplfier.
The music library is essentially fixed in size. He has settled on flac format. Classical. Typically he won't play a full CD but rather a few tracks from one and a few from another. If we are looking at additional features, then the ability to play internet radio or podcasts and similar would be a plus. It has to be simple to put together and maintain. The size of the library is small enough that it could be put on a USB drive, certainly an SSD. In normal operation the process should not involve turning on a computer.
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We've been thinking along the lines of a uPnP/DLNA setup, with a simple NAS adapter and USB drive as the server, and [something like Chromecast Audio] as the renderer. Problems have arisen on all three fronts: simple aka cheapo NAS storage adapters may not work as media servers, we haven't found any good uPnP control point apps, and what to use as a renderer eludes us. (I should add here that I have managed to use my Windows PC as a server and send mp3s from there to my Chromecast Audio using AirWire or BubbleuPnP installed on my Nexus tablet. So we aren't totally hopeless here, just we are kinda stuck. I can not, for example, get flacs or wavs to play, only mp3s.)
The other option would be buy a network preamplifier with a USB port and plug the media in directly. My understanding is that leaves you using the manufacturer-supplied software as the control point, which may be less than ideal.
Finally, we could I suppose bite the bullet and set up a full-blown network server on a decent NAS, and use Plex or Kodi or something of that line.
I have no idea, as I write this, which of those three options I should even be looking at. So any help on that score would be appreciated.
On a more granular level, are there any good uPnP control point apps for android you can recommend, especially for classical music?
TIA
Richard Murdey
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