I usually agree with you John but on this I'm not sure where you are coming from. Plex does support DLNA, but it appears geared more towards video and promoting their (especially paid) streaming services rather than just straight forward music file streaming.
Since the UPnP controller is external, the networked files are effectively being 'pushed' to (or as Microsoft and others prefer to call this 'Play To') the streamer as they are outside its control.īTW, very few UPnP/DLNA supporting network audio streamers/renderers/players these days are just DMPs, the vast majority being hybrids, so both DMRs & DMPs. Any app supplied by the DMR manufacturer will need to contain a UPnP control point in order to control the DMR's UPnP/DLNA streaming and it follows that the DMR can also be used by third party UPnP control point apps. The DMR doesn't have an internal UPnP control point, so requires an external one. Any app supplied by the DMP manufacturer does not actually support UPnP/DLNA streaming, but uses a proprietary mechanism to remote control the DMP and so indirectly access its internal UPnP control point. Since the UPnP controller is internal, the networked files are effectively being 'pulled' by the streamer as they are under its control. The DMP has a UPnP control point built into the device itself and the DMP cannot be used with an external UPnP control point (eg a third party UPnP controller app). The Marantz NA8005 is a DLNA certified DMR: With DLNA supporting streamers, there's a subtle difference between a Digital Media Player (DMP) and a Digital Media Renderer (DMR). Am I missing something obvious?Well I suppose it isn't that obvious.
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An excellent free music dedicated UPnP media server to use is MinimServer:Īnother question: even if I ran a different media server on my NAS, how would I tell the Marantz to stream if I'm not using *its* app? I don't see how a different iPad app could control the 8005. Neither the UPnP controller app nor the Marantz, when network streaming, handle the music file metadata - only the UPnP media server does. It is the UPnP media server (and not the the UPnP controller app) that builds the music library database (from the music files' metadata) and provides the music category folder structure for accessing the library. Incidentally, what UPnP/DLNA media server application are you using to provide the music library for the Marantz and on what network machine are you running it on (usually the same machine that contains the drives the music files are stored in)? Refer to this thread for discussion and recommendations for UPnP controllers that support gapless playback: You can use 3rd party UPnP/DLNA controllers instead of Marantz's own apps for network streaming your music files.
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