Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

[Spoon-]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

It is quite geeky it will be looked at as I want to run a few AE also around my home, but right now priority is on Renaissance and Asset Control, once Renaissance settles down then work can be done on AE (as it relies on Renaissance).

[avdude]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

Spoon - thanks for the quick response!

Are there plans to integrate this with other products? It's own product? Or was this something that was done as proof of concept and nothing more?

The potential to use the AE as a UPNP device is very exciting for me. I have one, but could easily imagine using multiple for a whole house audio solution (like Sonos) on a shoestring budget.

[Spoon-]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

It can be a little flakey on my testing, but have not had a chance to look into it.

[avdude]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

Spoon - first I'm thrilled to see someone developing another method to use the AE besides iTunes! Keep up the great work!!!

I'm having a bit of trouble getting this to work reliably. I'm using PlugPlayer on an iPhone and it will find the AE fine. When it goes to play it looks like it will start but there is no progress nor sound. I managed to get it to work once, but have been unable to replicate. Any thoughts? Or perhaps updates?

[Spoon-]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

Has its own.

[prefab]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

Does it use its own decoders or does it require dBpoweramp to be installed ?

[Spoon-]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

It is done on the pc on which the airupnp software runs from.

[prefab]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

Hello,

this seems very interesting, but I am not sure I understand how it works: Airport Express only accepts Apple Lossless, 44.1 kHz, 16 bits files. So if I have flac, ogg or mp3 where is the transcoding done: Asset, player or is Air capable of transcoding ? Thanks.

[Spoon-]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

Right now there is no UPnP standard for sending over the replaygain tags, we will create a standard shortly, but for now if you use Asset to Wave with replaygain done iin Asset.

[dvdr]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

Replaygain would to be done by the server (Asset)

pity :cry: I thought, I could stream to my HiFi unaltered via Asset and use the "rerouting" through Air uPnP to get replay-gained material in noisier surroundings....
No chance, really?????

[Spoon-]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

Replaygain would to be done by the server (Asset)

[dvdr]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

We have not implemented the Cara functionality yet, this means any control point has to be active to play the next track (that is UPnP for you).

Sorry, did not know...
A few more things I noted, maybe you can look into these:

when playing 48kHz/16 bit content, I get a lot of distortions - a piano does sound as if they put glasses on the strings. Interestingly enough, when playing a highres wav (not sure whether 88.2 or 96) this goes well (no resampling chosen in Asset-config...)

Applying volume with Plugplayer works fine, but in Songbook: don't touch the volume control slider, Airport Express will lock up and needs to be powered off and "rebooted" to work again.

I browsed through the forum lately and came across the possibility to define some sort of config-file for uplayer, that would put it into "apply replay-gain" mode, if I remember right. Is there a way to get Air UPnP into that mode as well - other than with my HiFi in the living room, I would love to stream replay-gained material into the kitchen....

Thanks!

[robertjwarren]

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Hi spoon

dont have ipod touch so will try the pc route. Will get back and let u know how I fair

[Spoon-]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

You need a UPNP server, such as Asset
UPnP Control point, such as Plugplayer on ipod touch, or http://oss.linn.co.uk/trac/wiki/LinnGui on the PC.
And Air UPnP which runs automatically.

[robertjwarren]

Re: Air UPnP (control Airport Express as UPnP devices)

i must be really dense...what is needed to get this working?

I have

hp laptop, win xp, airport express....seem to have all the parts...dont know how to get air upnp to launch?