Issue with Marantz

[lyapounov]

OK, I made some progress, but the situation is a little unstable.

What I did not get is that Linn/Lumin has its own way to manage playlist; not standard uPnP, but it allows for great tools : Lumin, Kazoo, Kinsky.

Unfortunatly, Marantz does not provide this, and so far, the only app which works is PlugPlayer; though it is highly unstable : I must constantly tell the app to search for minimserver and the marantz, because it keeps on switching to another server and another renderer everytime I launch it, etc. And PlugPlayer seems unfortunatly compliant with uPnP, which means that the app must stay on, if not the music stops at the end of the track :-( So a totally unreliable app. I tried mediaConnect, and it also works in a highly unstable way.

Then I thought I found a miracle : BubbleUPnP server (it has a synology package) on top of minimServer. What it did is that it created something which I interpret as a virtual rendering machine, which allows for playlist, and then Kinsky and Kazoo work perfectly, it plays the entire content and not only the first track, with only one issue :
sometimes the Folder.jpg does not display on Kazoo, or sometimes it displays wrong (seeing the head of Britten as the main image for pop rock section is quite funny). Even though it says BubbleUPnp works with Lumin, Lumin does not detect the minimServer on my network, which I don't understand why (it did not even before I installed BubbleUPnP). I have a synology ds212j, so very slow processor :-(

I tried to install Serviio for testing but that created an even bloodier mess, so I took this off. O well, just tried.

O, I am now in the final test, but it seems that I finally got it : minimServer plus BubbleUPnP allows to have playlists on a Marantz !

Still waiting a few days before celebrating victory


PS : Lumin is now seeing the minimServer. It was actually the serviio daemon on my Mac which seems to put a mess. As soon as I killed that daemon, Lumin was able to see the minimServer !!!!