OK – I’ve misunderstood how everything hangs together. I have partially ripped my CD collection to an HP WHS using dbpoweramp and can now stream music using Asset and existing hardware (PS3 and a Meridian G95 – which, amongst other things, is a digital surround sound amp) and am very pleased with the quality of the sound produced – but the system lacks control. I think that the Asset Control interface looks wonderful but as you correctly point out can’t be used with a PS3. I am tempted to go the Linn route but think that might be overkill as the whole DAC process is currently being handled very well by the Meridian. As the only reason for me wanting to purchase another ‘renderer’ is for it to work with Asset Control can you point me in the direction of compatible units or can you tell me what I should be looking out for specification wise?
Updated to the latest beta's of Asset Control & uPlayer at the weekend and now have a problem playing tracks. Asset Control immediately detects Twonky Server on my QNAP 409 NAS and displays the catalogue. However, when I select a track to play thru uPlayer/PC soundcard/hi-fi I get about 2 secs max of the track then the Asset display drops back into STOP. All these tracks play perfectly thru foobar2000 and WMP11 and previously played OK thru Asset.
Any clues as to how I track down this problem ?
DUH! Checked Sygate f/w and there it was, uPlayer upnp layer was blocked. Sygate appears to have taken that action in response to "An Intrusion Attempt" from my NAS. Eh ???? All OK now.
Copy one of the files locally, then start uplayer.exe by jsut running it (with no command options), then open a new cmd window (start >> run >> cmd.exe) and type:
Yes, track plays OK. With a slight change of command to address local install settings...
"C:\Program Files\dBpowerAMP Music Converter\Asset Control\uplayer.exe" -play="c:\Track01.mp3"
I THINK I may have solved the problem.
I have a batch (.bat) file set up to start Asset Control & uPlayer and had it in the sequence Asset Control followed by uPlayer. I reversed that sequence so that uPlayer starts first and problem seems to have gone away for the time being.
BTW... help me here. I had to rename Asset Control.exe to get the .bat working...
start /d "C:\Program Files\dBpowerAMP Music Converter\Asset Control\" uPlayer.exe
start /d "C:\Program Files\dBpowerAMP Music Converter\Asset Control\" AssetControl.exe
I could not get the .bat working with...
start /d "C:\Program Files\dBpowerAMP Music Converter\Asset Control\" Asset Control.exe
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