BubbleUPNP Server/MinimServer/FFMPEG

[philiph]

I am running Minimserver 2 with the Naim app on my control point very happily on my Synology DS716 DSM 6. rendering primarily to a Naim NAC-N172XS. The server and renderer are connected on a wired ethernet. I transcode from Flac to Wav and all is well, playing up to 192.24.

Separately I had a rest from my Spotify subscription and decided to look at alternatives and decided on Qobuz. In order to stream Qobuz to my Naim 172 streamer I installed BubbleUPnP server on the Synology and Android BubbleUPNP on my control point. All works well and I can stream up to 192.24 from Qobuz. A big improvement on Spotify and only £149 a year and although I haven't tried it yet I understand that the Qobuz app will work with Android Auto which is good.

My problem is that I cannot transcode from flac to Wav using Bubble. On the Open Home settings for my 172 renderer in Bubble Server the Audio decoding section is greyed out. Initially I read some stuff about the Synology version of ffmpeg being older and installed the ffmpeg version from SynoCommunity but no joy.

Clearly Minimserver is transcoding quite happily and it would seem to me that the best way forward is to send the Qobuz stream to Minimserver which would make life easier all round and Minimserver would take care of the transcoding, which it already does and I would only have one Bubble library.

Am I right about this and what settings would I need to add to Minimwatch, or elsewhere, to make this happen please?

Once resolved, or even now as it's streaming in Flac anyway, it's kicked some extended life into my Naim streamer.