Very newbie question: how do I tell if minimstreamer is runnng?

[pete_w]

Thanks, Simon. So my future has a lot of tagging in it if I decide to buy this thing.

I’ve solved the streamer problem that I was complaining about. (Told you it was a newbie question). I hadn’t reset the *app*. That seems to be a bizarre dependency but I’m guessing there’s a reason in the standard somewhere :-)

I’ve put in some e/o/e isolation in the Ethernet feed to the Rossini, and that’s cleaned it up a lot, but it’s still not quite as a good over the Ethernet as it is over USB. And given the cost of the things, it ought to be.

Having minimaerver decode flac to wav24 seems to be a good thing. I want to try it with ALAC too, so I need a new transcoder. Your instructions are a little terse but I got there in the end, with a new ffmpeg from the synology community group. Well done. I’ll see how that sounds tomorrow.

One remaining question I think, what’s the syntax for bit extending a ripped CD - ripped to .wav - to wav24? Is it just wav(16):wav24 ? I tried that last thing and I wasn’t sure it worked, but then Real Life stopped play before I could investigate further.

Thanks!