![]() ![]() If you have a large audio library, and you want to find a specific song or artist quickly you need to be able to search for it, browsing alone just doesn’t cut it when you have thousands of tracks in your library. MinimServer, Plex and Twonky also deserve a mention for this. Special mention however should go to Asset UPnP, which offers the most granular browsing capability by some margin (bitrate, composer, year, label, album artist etc….). To keep things simple and award points fairly just the basic browsing categories were required to gain a point here (Album, Artist, Genre). It should be noted that browsing categories vary greatly, with some offering a great deal more granularity than others. The criteria here was being able to browse and search the music library using the controller, one point being awarded if it had DLNA search capability as well basic browsing categories like Album Name, Artist Name. In fact it didn’t even index the album or recognise the tracks. I was surprised that Plex couldn’t play DSF/DSD. The other servers tested didn’t recognise the track or couldn’t play it. To score a point here the track must be played in it’s native format, with no transcoding/encoding.ĪssetUPnP, Emby, LMS, MiniDLNA/ReadyNAS, MinimServer (all variants) and Twonky passed the test, each scoring one point. This particular track was chosen for its high definition format DSF/DSD, encoded at 24bit 96khz. I tried a variety of tracks and file formats, but the real differentiator was successfully playing Deep Purple’s Time for Bedlam track from the Infinite album. The criteria here was to listen to my music in its native format and original quality, from the capable renderers around my home. I’m not going to score them any different, they all run on the Synology NAS, so they all score 1 point. MinimServer (v0.8 and 2.0 all variants)Īll of the music servers tested can run on a Synology NAS, some of them are installed from the default app store, others need additional repositories adding, and some can only run in docker.Here are the UPnP/DLNA music servers being tested: #MINIMSERVER ALBUM IMAGE SOFTWARE#
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