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(26-05-2014 12:12)Fred40 Wrote:  Maybe it"s wise to start all over again. Btw schould I instal Java 7 or 8? In the tutorial you have to instal Java 7 but perhaps 8 is more recent and is not yet mentioned in the tutorial?

On my DS213+ both versions work. Currently I am using java 8. As long as there are no known problems I'd always recommend the latest version.

Regarding your problems with minimserver. Do you have minimwatch installed on a PC in your network? With minimwatch you can see the status of the minimserver and also update to newer versions. Also configuration (like on the fly transcoding via minimstreamer) can be set up there.

Why it is interesting to use minimserver instead of the Synology mediaserver:

* You will see covers for the album directories when browsing by folder.

* You can let transcode the music data to lpcm24. I am not sure if the difference of transcoding to lpcm or wav is better. But wav does sound better than flac on an uniti 1. Maybe because the uniti's CPU has less work to do and just handles the incoming data through straight to the DAC?

You also can configure the synology server to transcode in real time. But this is very confusing to do. Also you only can let transcode music formats that the renderer does not support. As all upnp renderer support mp3 you never can transcode mp3 to wav (as far I have found out). Because naim devices can handle many formats (like flac and ogg/vorbis, etc.) you have to set up the naim renderer as plain/dumb/generic (can't remember the exact wording) mp3-only-renderer, so all formats (except mp3) will be transcoded. But: the mediaserver does not "upscale" the music data to 24bit. This is said to enhance music quality again. But I did not check if I can hear this difference.

* A big plus for minimserver is that it supports upnp query. So you can search through the whole library (e.g. with the android BubbleUPnP app). Also you can add some random tracks from the whole library into the playlist with bubbleUPnP.

The only downside for me with minimserver is that it lacks ogg/vorbis support. So I have to switch between the two servers depending of the music I want to listen to. Also sometimes it takes a little bit longer until minimserver does show up as upnp server in bubble-upnp. I have tried BubbleUPnP-Server as a proxy for minimserver to work around this, but it did not help.

Greetings
Gert