- #JRIVER MEDIA CENTER AND SONOS UPGRADE#
- #JRIVER MEDIA CENTER AND SONOS SOFTWARE#
- #JRIVER MEDIA CENTER AND SONOS PC#
#JRIVER MEDIA CENTER AND SONOS UPGRADE#
I've upgraded just about every element of our AV setup over the past couple years including adding an HTPC and 5.1 surround speakers and for us nothing has been a better upgrade so far than the Sonos. That's a particularly cool feature to have for parties when we're constantly moving between the house, back yard, etc and it still impresses our luddite friends to see us just whip out our phones to change the music without having to get up out of our chairs. It's also a great multi-room solution if you want to expand and play your music all over the house since you can just add Sonos components that will sync wirelessly with each other as long as one of them remains hardwired to your router.
#JRIVER MEDIA CENTER AND SONOS PC#
You can control it through your PC but much better would be to get any cheap NAS like a WD MyBookLive to store your music on that and then control via the Sonos app for your smart phone or tablet. My suggestion would buy the Sonos Connect, test it at home, and return it if it doesn't seem worth the cost to you. FWIW though I was able to try MOG through both DLNA and Sonos and didn't notice any difference in quality between them. I tried through my blu ray player but as with most DLNA players it wouldn't play ALAC. The wife and I are very partial to our Sonos however I can't compare it to Airplay for sound quality since prior to the Sonos I only ever played iTunes on little bookshelf speakers connected to my laptop. Would a Sonos Connect be a solution to keep the nice user interface and does it have a better sound quality than iTunes/Airplay? Would a dedicated NAS do that and if yes which one is recommend?
#JRIVER MEDIA CENTER AND SONOS SOFTWARE#
Slow browsing, Tracks not in the right order, no support for double CD's, no pause, no fast-forward or rewind, not even a stop button on the remote control.Ĭan you recommend a (free) DLNA server software that allows the browsing/controlling on the Denon to be more convenient? While iTunes is a dream when it comes to managing, controlling and browsing the music, via DNLA to the Denon is an absolute horror.
(The sound enhancer and EQ in iTunes are disabled) When I was testing/comparing/converting FLAC to ALAC I made a discovery that all music files played directly into the receiver via DLNA (Plex on iMac) sounded way better than the same files via iTunes/Airplay! Much more open sounding, better stereo imaging, more brilliant, tighter bass. JRiver media center playlist has no problems.I have a Denon AVR-2113 (soon to be upgraded to a AVR-X4000 when it becomes available) and always listened to music via iTunes on my iMac streaming to the build-in Airplay of the Denon.Īfter upgrading my speakers I became interested in re-ripping my CD's in better quality. In the Sonos app you can display the playlist and when you do and scroll through you will see some tracks are greyed out (because Sonos can’t essentially find them, because the path name to find the track has become corrupted). My guess is that other people might not be seeing it as they might just play the playlist and not actually look at the playlist itself and not realise these names have been corrupted and those tracks are not playing. However, basic track titles like The BEATLES a Hard Day’s Night are corrupted to AÂ Hard Day’s Night. Musicbee playlist certainly doesn’t like album tracks from Bon Ivor’s 22 a million which contains lots of unusual characters, most of the names in an associated playlist for this album are corrupted. I assume you are referring non standard letters or numbers. The file names of my tracks on the hard drive are correct, the track names in Musicbee (presumably taken from the metadata are correct) but, for those affected tracks, if I look at the details of these tracks using notepad in the playlist the names are corrupted.īy UTF-8 etc. My understanding is that a playlist is just a text file with a list of paths of where to find the tracks on your hard drive. Excuse my ignorance on how this all works.
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