Sound quality of MinimServer

[sng2021]

(20-09-2024 13:03)simbun Wrote:  

(20-09-2024 00:26)sng2021 Wrote:  @simbun, No I am not imagining it. Like I said an obvious example is I cannot hear the barking of a dog in Roger Waters "Amused to Death" whereas it is loud and clear with the other servers. They are the exact same tracks when I use different servers because I only connect to an external drive which contains all my music (there are no other copies).

I installed Jriver and configured its DLNA profile to Original Format and let it index a few files.
I then pulled the same track from Jriver and MinimServer and analyzed the files (see attachment).

md5sum was used to generate a digital fingerprint of the target files, and all three were calculated as "73a7679b7197d93268a52489546f2eee" so we can be sure the audio content was the same.

I know nothing about http transfer methods but that is where we do see some discrepancy (at least to the layman), but if that's impacting the audio reproduction then I think it's more a problem with the renderer than the server.

I'd suggest you:

• Calculate the MD5 of both streams from Jriver and MinimServer to verify your settings
• Try using mconnect instead of JPlay to rule out JPlay
• Clip the barking dog and share it with us to try
  

@simbun, thanks for spending time to work on this. How do you find the URL for a particular track in JRiver. I tried using what I think should be the correct volume, folder & filename but curl tells me it cannot find the file. Does JRiver use its own FileID?

I have not tried with MinimServer. I hope I don't run into the same problem.