Transcoding combinations UPnP and Internet Radio

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(14-03-2015 18:49)Pastim Wrote:  My line of work used to be interbank payment IT systems. When you try to get several such large organisations together improvising is impossible, so it was all planned, and planned to death, including planning for the unknown as far as one could. We avoided unknowns by working rather hard at making sure the unknowns became known. It's become a habit. I still get things to work but probably via a longer process than is strictly necessary (this used to be a difference between UK and US IT development until speed became more important than extreme reliability).

Operational Research was my line of business and consultancy after I branched out but in the public sector where complexity rules. A lot of strategic planning and modelling in the early days and there are buildings about that I had a an influence in and know the past before market forces became the order of the day so I moved into regulation of these markets and consultancy there in . Moving the money about on annual contracts rather than the planning of actual services on a 10 year horizon. Although nowadays they get built in a couple of years but don't have a financial plan to support them using PFI monies which then undermine all other providers around them (they tend to have helicopters on their roofs so you know what I'm talking about). You have to like Mrs T or not.

I tend to plumb all my sound through one separate AV surround sound processor for the lounge. An output of that PCM SPDIF goes through the wall to the office and a DAC. A long cable feeds the kitchen sound so it is all in synch at times. Being an early adopter of minidisc I've been use to compressed sound, then MP3 but now playing FLAC. Since I hear whistling in my ears most of the time related to a compressed ear drum during a budget flight several years back it would be a total waste of money for me to invest in high quality sound systems above what I've got unless to cover up the background whistle !.

I am going to invest in a NEET Wifi Music receiver to give a bit more flexibility to get the HLS source into my system having failed to get my Humax HDR to communicate in an online UPnP sense with MinimStreamer or Serviio, seems the Koreans decided it was functionality that one didn't need. AV people would only play recorded stuff not want to access online materiel. Use my Android tablet in bed with headphones. I use the office PC as the music server plus podcasts through Serviio when I don't want to wear head phones. So you never know I might have some questions soon in relation to the NEET.... I see it's all suppose to be done in the m4a Apple standard but given that is what HLS AAC is no degradation then.

I don't think the technical side on the BBC changing things will settle down any time soon. I suspect the manufactures that aren't using file servers plus software and high end streamers won't becoming up with solutions. It's external applications like MinimStreamer running on servers or in server mode on PCs or Mac or little boxes like the Raspberry Pi are the order of the day if you want "high quality" digital internet based BBC Radio, don't want to use BBC iPlayer apps tethered to devices, or you don't have a high end system or a discontinued device that hobbyists are supporting in their spare time.