Use with Synology 415play and Sonos?

[Latefordinner]

(29-08-2015 10:32)simoncn Wrote:  

(28-08-2015 08:54)Latefordinner Wrote:  Hi. I have installed MinimServer on my Synology 415play. All I want to do is use the Synology to feed music to my Sonos system to overcome Sonos's 65,000-track limit. Is it possible to use MinimServer to automatically feed the music to my Sonos system and overcome the limit?

Also, how do I point Sonos to MinimServer? I know how to point Sonos to the Synology itself, but I have no idea how to get it to find MinimServer.

Thanks.

The Sonos control software isn't compatible with standard UPnP servers, so you can't "point Sonos to MinimServer". However, a Sonos player can function as a standard UPnP renderer, so you can "point MinimServer to Sonos" by using a standard UPnP control point (for example, BubbleUPnP) to select a Sonos player as the renderer.

Thank you for responding. I am afraid I am not well versed in this stuff. When you say a Sonos play can function as a standard UPnP rendered so that I can point MinimServer to Sonos, what does that mean in practice? I have MinimServer installed on a Synology 415play NAS, so would that mean that I would log in to the Synology through a network computer and issue commands to MinimServer to play things that Sonos controls?

My goal--and I don't know whether this is possible--is to use Sonos's control software (residing on an iPhone, iPads, and computers) to play music stored on the Synology. The problem is that Sonos can't index more than 65,000 tracks, though Sonos tells me that, if I found a true UPnP server, the UPnP server could push the music to the Sonos and overcome the 65,000-track limit.

For example, Sonos says that using a Windows computer to run Media Player would accomplish that goal but that I would have to have the computer running anytime I wanted to play music. I was hoping that I could perform that function from a NAS (the Synology) so that I don't have to run a computer 24 hours a day (and rely on a program that Microsoft has already retired through Windows 10).

Thanks again for your help.