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blgentry:

--- Quote from: billfish on September 13, 2016, 05:47:08 pm ---Brian, thanks again for all your help. Spurred on and informed by your observations, I've got things working the way I want them.
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That's great!  Thanks for letting us know.  :)


--- Quote ---The Heos powered speakers show up, after a pause of a number of seconds, under Playing Now as DLNA Renderers, grey arrows when not playing, yellow or green arrows when playing.
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There you go.  That's what's supposed to happen with DLNA devices.  Sounds like you've got it worked out just right.


--- Quote ---If the speakers within a link are both audible and they're out of sync, you can select a speaker & right click > adjust link timing, although I can't figure out when (if?) that takes effect.
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It should take effect quickly.  Pretty much right after you release the slider, one speaker should stop playing for a moment, then they should both (all) play again.  However, it's fairly well known the DLNA devices don't obey sync very well.  You can usually get them to play in sync... for a little while.  Then they drift out of sync again.

A different way of doing this, with some systems (like Sonos), is to direct MC's output to ONE of your speakers.  Then use the system's proprietary app to link speakers together.  With Sonos at least, this guarantees sync, while still having MC be the music source.  This may or may not be applicable to the Denon system.


--- Quote ---If you understand exclusive access mode better than I do, an explanation would be welcome. As in, exclusive access to what, exactly?
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Exclusive access means essentially this:  When this option is enabled, one MC zone will "lock" this audio device so that ONLY this MC zone can talk to it.  "Exclusive access" for this MC zone.  Other OSX apps, and other MC zones will not be able to talk to it.  This is useful mainly for sound devices that might be talked to by other apps (or the system) when you do not want them to.  Like noisy web pages that would intrude on your music.  Or loud beeps and bops from the system that would hurt your ears or irritate you while listening.


--- Quote ---OK, you set up the zone called "desk speakers", and its audio device is Core Audio, right? And then for the zone "headphones," the device is your DAC. Yes?
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Yes and Yes.  :)

Good job.  Glad you got it all working.

Brian.

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