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RoderickGI:
Okay. The Zones are appearing in MC because all the AMPs are advertising themselves as DLNA Renderers. That is fine. They are what JRiver calls Dynamic Zones, because they come and go as MC sees them. You don't have to use them.

You could try linking those Zones in MC and playing to any linked Zone should play to all linked Zones. Or you could set up a Zone Group and add each Zone to that Group. In each case, MC should play to all visible Zones (AMPs, acting as DLNA Renderers). I don't have your setup so can't say how well that would work. A couple of things to note though.


* Playback may not be synchronised, or may not stay synchronised. MC has some functionality around synchronising playback on Zones (Options > Features > Precision Zone Sync), but it isn't very robust. I understand it works best with independent DLNA Renderers, such as in your situation, so it may work well enough, if synchronised playback is important to you. I know at least one other user uses Music Cast to ensure synchronised playback. In another case a user is playing to BubbleUPnP which is then casting to Chromecast devices, which also does a reasonable job at synchronisation I understand, but of course has quality limitations.
* I'm not sure exactly what happens if Dynamic Zones that are linked or in a Group disappear and then reappear. That seems to be what is happening in Music Cast in your situation, and Music Cast doesn't handle it well. MC may handle it better.
So basically, you could try it. There should be no harm to your MC setup, and you could just unlink or ungroup the Zones if it doesnt' work.

dichotomous1:
Got it.   Music Cast did an update last night and now doesn't recognize my server.  So I'll reach out to them and cover this topic as well.
Thanks for the help.

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