The program streams or transcodes many different media formats with little or no configuration. Universal Media Server supports all major operating systems, with versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server. Nokia N78 has client and server, both DLNA.
Nokia N95 has client and server, only the server is DLNA certified. Nokia N82 has client and server, both DLNA certified. OPlayer, Media player that has a built-in UPnP-client. Songbook Mac can control Linn DS, Naim HDX, Hush Digifi or UPNP device from a Mac. Firestream on the Mac looks for the receiver and once it has found it the two parts of the DLNA system (server and client) allows the receiver to play the music from the Mac: Just switch the receiver into DLNA mode and all the music on the Mac suddently appears and is available to play!like magic. The Mac running Firestream then sets up a DLNA “Server” (that’s what Firestream is for) and the receiver in the hi-fi system acts as a DLNA “Client”. Personally, I use an An圜ast all the time to cast my mac out, and use Plex if I want to cast into OS/X from Windows or Linux. Music in the kitchen, cheaply and all under your control.VLC does do DLNA and UPnP on OS/X with the newest version 2.2.4 - you have to have your firewall and sharing setup properly. Install the arm version of SnapCast and hook it up to a sub-$20 speaker. (with Debian installed), then set it up using this guide. Still not convinced? You can get a $8 early version of the C.H.I.P. This is a great little application that does something really simple and awesome, with guides that are pretty straightforward. I currently have the server (and a client) running on my main server, a client on my laptop, a client on my phone, and a client on a CHIP that I have speakers plugged into… and it’s all in sync… without clobbering my WiFi. Snapcast is absurdly simple to set up with sane defaults. Music player daemon ( MPD) or Mopidy, which can be configured to use a named pipe as audio output.
One of the most generic ways to use Snapcast is in conjunction with the Allĭata that is fed into this file will be send to the connected clients. The server’s audio input is a named pipe /tmp/snapfifo. It’s not a standalone player, but an extension that turns your existingĪudio player into a Sonos-like multi-room solution. Snapcast is a multi-room client-server audio player, where all clientsĪre time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. Less than a month later, SnapCast was uploaded to GitHub and made that whole guide obsolete.Īvailable for Raspberry (and C.H.I.P.), Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, Android, and OpenWrt, A year and a half ago I wrote about a way to use RTP multicast to provide whole-house audio.