3/2/2023 0 Comments Asset upnp no art![]() I won't go into a ton of detail on that except to say it's much less painful/daunting than at first glance it may seem, and more importantly it all goes by very quickly. There are cheaper case options for sure, but the PiKrust actually represents value if not ultimate thrift, the entire case is one big heat sink.Īfter having Raspbian up and running on the RPi, the next steps involve launching a Terminal session for the command line stuff needed to download, unzip/extract, and install AssetUPnP, and then do some additional configuration. I then installed the board into the very fine PiKrust SE anodized CNC milled aluminum case, a beautiful piece made in Oregon. The initial set-up involves procuring an RPi3 board, and flashing a microSD card with the Raspbian Linux OS variant. There is also a free version of Asset, but I wanted all of the "Premium" version's functionality including DSD support, so I popped for the $10. Asset appeared to be the less involved set-up of the two, and I reckoned my $10 might buy me valuable support should I run into headaches. I chose AssetUPnP from the developer Illustrate (also the developer of dBPoweramp), even though it's $10 as opposed to the freeware MinimServer. ![]() Browsing their respective set-up guides revealed a little more Linux command line configuration than I'm entirely comfortable with, but I decided I was up to the task. ![]() ![]() Again, Moode works wonderfully well on the RPi3 as an endpoint/renderer (better than Volumio/Rune/others in my opinion), but the Moode "MiniDLNA" server function left me wanting.Īt that point I focused on dedicated server programs for RPi3 and quickly narrowed it to two well-known applications: MinimServer, and AssetUPnP. That's actually an in-depth topic when it shouldn't be, so after various attempts at fixing that problem all ending in failure, I scrapped Moode as server and it's "MiniDLNA" implementation. Set-up was easy enough, and while it worked and sounded fine, an annoying old problem with various DLNA implementations reared it's ugly head: spotty presentation of the album art. I'm already using a Raspberry Pi3 as a Moode UPnP Renderer (endpoint) in my living room system to great effect with a Resonessence Herus DAC connected via USB, so why not use an additional RPi3 in server mode?īecause I already use and love the Moode distro for RPi3, I tried that first knowing it had a setting in it's configuration menu for use as a DLNA server. Kind of a waste of electricity, the lure of instant multi-room music streaming causing me to be lazy and never power down my computer. I'll still use the JRiver/Mac mini combo for local playback where it resides in my bedroom, but I'd like to have a network server elsewhere, primarily to be available to stream music at times the mini is either switched off, or in midst of a software update, or running a CPU intensive application for example.Īdditionally, although the Mac mini is a very energy efficient computer, I don't like leaving it on 24/7 just for the ability to stream music to different rooms, but I had found myself increasingly doing just that. Lately I have contemplated transitioning my network music server off of my daily driver Mac mini running JRiver. ![]()
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