Sound quality comparison

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(29-08-2014 14:09)simoncn Wrote:  Ignoring the internet aspect for the moment, this use case could present a challenge for the UPnP scheme. For example, if you enable wav24 and mp3 streams (listed in that order), your dedicated streamers will play the wav24 stream (as desired) but any Android device that claims support for WAV will be told by the control point to play the wav24 stream.

An ideal solution would be for the control point to provide a user setting for fine-grained control over which of the available streams should be played on which renderer devices.

Do any of the control points do that? I am not aware of anything in BubbleUPnP that allows selection of a particular stream.

What about looking at the user-agent from the Minim side of things? Thinking off the top of my head... a user could stream with their devices, a priori, and you capture observed user agent strings. Then, assuming they differ between, say, Android and appliances (like AVRs), you present a transcoding choice for a given user-agent (and a default for everything else).