In article , Bob Latham
wrote:
In article , Richard
Kimber wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 19:16:11 +0100, Bob Latham wrote:

What I don't understand and would love to is, what the blazes is the
point of dlna for audio streaming? What I do does not use dlna at
all, the Sonos just opens the file and pulls data from the NAS using
good old SMB, no dlna server needed or running. It works just fine.
What does dlna do that this doesn't?

That's OK if you've got a Sonos.

True I suppose but that rather misses the point.

A couple of years back when I was last looking at streamers I asked
manufacturers about some facilities I wanted and their product didn't
appear to have. I was told that DLNA doesn't support xxxyyyx and we will
have to do some hacking to make that work. At the time Sonos could do it
using Samba/SMB and so I was mystified as to why the use of DLNA seemed
so compulsory for many manufacturers especially if it was limiting as
they implied.

My impression from what people have said is that dlna works on the basis of
some specific assumptions / requirements. Possibly involving it insisting
on forms of metadata its creators have adopted, and formats they can
process. So limiting you to what they've decided, I suspect.

Personally I dislike on-the-fly convertors (gstreamer, you know who I
mean!) because you may not know if they're fiddling with the data in ways
you'd not want. As discussed earlier for player software.

FWIW All I do is give files and directories names that tell me what I want
to know - composer, etc, for classical, for example. And for something like
an LP I've made a digital file from, I add scans of the front and rear
covers of the LP sleeve, and any notes. Keep these as jpegs to display if I
choose. I've noticed that Audacity will find and display a thumbnail of
these when I give it a directory of files or a file from a directory with
such a bitmap. But to see it full-screen-size I just use a suitable bipmap
viewer. Normally, I don't bother as I'm listening to the music! :-)

Jim

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