Re: [gentoo-user] Off Topic - UPnP servers

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Friday, 24 May 2024 01:32:29 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    Please excuse my off topic question. Does anyone here use a UPnP server
> for audio files that they recommend as being particularly good?
> 
>    I'm a Plex user for video and have also ripped my CD collection. Plex
> plays audio fine to TVs that have a Plex app but apparently sometimes
> doesn't work well (as of yet untested by me) to network streaming players.
> 
>    While I don't know if the above will be a problem I've purchased a
> network streaming player and will test it out over the weekend when it
> arrives but if Plex doesn't work, or doesn't work well, then I'd like to
> find a UPnP server that does. Browsing around on the web I find a number of
> names:
> 
> 1. Kodi – Home Theater Software
> 2. Universal Media Server
> 3. Jellyfin – Free Software Media System
> 4. DMS – UPnP DLNA Digital Media Server
> 5. Coherence – DLNA/UPnP Media Server
> 6. SimpleDLNA – Free DLNA Media Server
> 7. Gerbera – Free Media Server
> 8. ReadyMedia – MiniDLNA Media Server
> 9. Rygel – Home Media Solution
> 
>    Anyone have any first hand experience?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark

I have not used a Plex Media Server or any of its client apps.  I have used 
Kodi and also MiniDLNA (now ReadyMedia).

Kodi is a very feature rich HTC and would be my go to system for both audio 
and video.  The only problem I found is it can take some manual configuration 
to sort out your own audio file libraries, with preferred thumbnails, etc.  
Ripped CDs do not have this problem, as they will fetch artwork from online 
databases:

https://kodi.wiki/view/Artwork/Cache

It is worth mentioning you should keep a backup of your configuration 
settings, in case things go sideways at any stage:

https://kodi.wiki/view/Kodi_data_folder

The MiniDLNA is a very simple and reliable server I use to serve video/audio/
photos to TVs.  It has an also simple /etc/minidlna.conf file, it'll take you 
=<2 minutes to edit with the path to your media files. The gotchas here are 
more pertinent to the video/audio codec limitations of the TV DLNA clients, 
rather than the server.  The server will stream whatever file the client asks 
for over the DLNA protocol.

HTH.

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