Since customers want to be able to control their music where-ever they are in the house the focus of media controller development is definitely for iPads and Android based tablets. Media Controller The Media Controller is better known by the curious title of Control Point. So the media renderer is usually a piece of hi-fi hardware such as the Linn - DS Series or the Naim NDS Media Renderer The Media Renderer either plays the music itself or converts it so it can be played by something else further down the line. ![]() We think MinimServer is by far the most flexible media server, offering a significantly more powerful approach to metadata then the others that let you harness all that metadata added by SongKong and Jaikoz, and we will explain how to do just that in a series of blog posts in the near future. The choice of media server is important because the Media controller can only see the metadata that the media server presents it with, and the media renderer can only play the files that the server provides. The most popular media servers are Asset, MinimServer, Twonky and JRiver. Media Server The media server is software that could be running on a computer, a NAS or a purpose built hi-fi server such as the Melco N1 or the Naim UnitiServe The media server streams music to media renderers, control of the media renderers is via the media controller. But customers wanted to play music in multiple rooms this meant a way was required to stream music to players that could reside in different locations to where the music was stored, and they wanted to be able to control this from a single point, uPnP AV addresses these issues. ![]() Hi-end audio manufacturers such as Naim and Linn started to see the potential of using hard drives to store music rather than always playing from the original CD. When people talk about uPnP they usually mean uPnP AV, on this blog we are interested in the A part. What is uPnP AV AV refers to Audio Visual - this takes UPnP and develops standard for audio and visual, i.e hi-fi systems, televisions, set-top boxes and the like. If your library is really large and you have only changed a few files then you can just select the modified files instead of all your files. This may take a few minutes depending on how large your JRiver library is. ![]() Then select Tools:Library Tools:Update Library (from tags). Luckily this is easy enough, just use Edit:Select All to select all your songs within JRiver. The disadvantage is that if you modify the files with some other tool such as SongKong then JRiver does not know that anything has changed, you have to tell it. The advantage of creating an index is speed, you can now browse your file metadata within JRiver very quickly without JRiver having to go back to the files themselves, it only has to go back to the file when you actually want to play the file. The problem is that JRiver (just like iTunes) build an index of all the metadata the first time the files are added to JRiver. Although SongKong appeared to have updated his songs correctly when he looked at the songs in JRiver there was no change, restarting JRiver made no difference. A SongKong customer asked me about a problem he was having with SongKong and JRiver Media Center this weekend.
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