![]() ![]() There is also a free version of Asset, but I wanted all of the "Premium" version's functionality including DSD support, so I popped for the $10. Asset appeared to be the less involved set-up of the two, and I reckoned my $10 might buy me valuable support should I run into headaches. I chose AssetUPnP from the developer Illustrate (also the developer of dBPoweramp), even though it's $10 as opposed to the freeware MinimServer. ![]() Browsing their respective set-up guides revealed a little more Linux command line configuration than I'm entirely comfortable with, but I decided I was up to the task. Again, Moode works wonderfully well on the RPi3 as an endpoint/renderer (better than Volumio/Rune/others in my opinion), but the Moode "MiniDLNA" server function left me wanting.Īt that point I focused on dedicated server programs for RPi3 and quickly narrowed it to two well-known applications: MinimServer, and AssetUPnP. That's actually an in-depth topic when it shouldn't be, so after various attempts at fixing that problem all ending in failure, I scrapped Moode as server and it's "MiniDLNA" implementation. Set-up was easy enough, and while it worked and sounded fine, an annoying old problem with various DLNA implementations reared it's ugly head: spotty presentation of the album art. ![]() I'm already using a Raspberry Pi3 as a Moode UPnP Renderer (endpoint) in my living room system to great effect with a Resonessence Herus DAC connected via USB, so why not use an additional RPi3 in server mode?īecause I already use and love the Moode distro for RPi3, I tried that first knowing it had a setting in it's configuration menu for use as a DLNA server. Kind of a waste of electricity, the lure of instant multi-room music streaming causing me to be lazy and never power down my computer. I'll still use the JRiver/Mac mini combo for local playback where it resides in my bedroom, but I'd like to have a network server elsewhere, primarily to be available to stream music at times the mini is either switched off, or in midst of a software update, or running a CPU intensive application for example.Īdditionally, although the Mac mini is a very energy efficient computer, I don't like leaving it on 24/7 just for the ability to stream music to different rooms, but I had found myself increasingly doing just that. Unfortunately, it continually reverts back to a presumably default start setting of manual, in lieu of automatic, start.Lately I have contemplated transitioning my network music server off of my daily driver Mac mini running JRiver. When I change back to "Local Asset (recommended)", I find that the program appears to only scan the WAV folder and thus create only a single entry for each track. as a "service" that it was, indeed, scanning the entire music folder and seeing BOTH the wav and mp3 files, thereby duplicating each track. However, I later discovered after making this change, the configuration settings for Asset changed from "Local Asset (recommended)" to "Service" it was in the latter configuration, i.e. I selected "services" and changed the start parameter to "automatic" which worked fine. Well I have been working to get this set up properly and have noted the following: Firstly, I wrote earlier about my desire to have Asset start automatically, in lieu of manually, which was the setting I initially encountered. ![]()
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