Streaming Spotify

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(24-03-2016 10:45)rich28 Wrote:  Ok I stand corrected - many proprietary UPnP devices are unable to see Songcast. However, I installed an OpenHome renderer on a Windows PC and this could - as available from http://openhome.org/pages/use/. Also, 'sc2mpd' provides Songcast support for 'upmpdcli' so, as I understand, it can also work with Unix/Linux hosts - see: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upmpdcli/sc2mpd.html. I'm aware that BubbleUPnP Server has no role in Songcast per se but personally I feel that its a good idea to having it running so as to have an openHome platform and to fix any UPnP oddities

The OpenHome Open Standard is actually an extension to standard UPnP originally developed by Linn for its DS streamers. So it's probably more accurate to describe OpenHome streamers as 'proprietary', rather the standard UPnP ones.

I certainly agree that OpenHome has certain advantages over standard UPnP, but even with OpenHome it's all in the implementation and can also have 'oddities'. For example the BubbleUPnP Server's OpenHome renderer not supporting Songcast (though this is probably due to a technical issue since the BubbleUPnP Server is ultimately simulating an OpenHome render for a real physical standard UPnP renderer). Last I heard, the excellent upmdcli UPnP client front end for mpd, you mentioned, doesn't 'fully' support OpenHome as it cannot access the OpenHome Streaming Services for Tidal & Qobuz.