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Distribute or sending audio stream to various renderers (networked speakers)

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JimH:
Not trying to hide anything from you, but "IF JR Media Center can behave like
Airfoil or iTunes ..." is vague.  JRiver has extensive network capabilities, but what do you want? 

This doesn't make sense:  "distribute audio to other speaker systems (renderers ) when
itself is a renderer."

currter:
Maybe one has a networked
speaker in the backyard and another in the front yard and another
in the family room and a stereo in the living room.

All of these devices can receive the same audio by means of a  computer
running some software like Airfoil sending the audio to the multiple
renderers by clicking boxes... if one wants to stop audio going to that device,
then that is done by deselecting the box. .

currter:
I think maybe JRiver Media Center can only send audio to
one networked speaker system at a time and not
send to multiple ones like how iTunes and Airfoil can do.

You software has a limitation or it was not designed to
send audio to more than one networked renderer?

I am successfully doing this using a combination of
Kodi running on a computer to expose the computer as
a networked renderer and using Airfoil with Kodi as its
input (or source) and Airfoil then sends what audio is beamed to the
computer running Kodi (DLNA mode) to a list of other audio systems
within the same network thus sharing or having the
audio distributed.
I use BubbleUPNP or Neutron sending audio from an external
source to the computer that is running both Kodi and Airfoil.

Audio is thus sent to various speakers in and around the house.

Simple.

I do not think JRiver Media Center can do this alone but I thought
it has the potential to do so but the people here do not know how
to explain it or how to do it?

Using Kodi and Airfoil to do this is simpler than trying to get JRiver to
do the same thing because JRiver has just too much and it tries to do
too much confusing things with all those options and selections.
One gets lost in JRiver software trying to do this simple thing
that is accomplished easier using Kodi in DLNA mode and Airfoil
to distribute the audio to multiple speakers.
Unless JRiver Media Center can prove otherwise?

JimH:
It sounds like you've found a solution with Kodi and Airfoil.  You should be able to use the same solution by replacing Kodi with JRiver.

currter:
Yes true... I either use Kodi with Airfoil or JRiver with Airfoil.

I want to just use only 1 software package to do both
and REALLY feel JRiver can accomplish this alone.

However, I do tend to use Kodi with Airfoil because Kodi has
some features such as seeing wave form of the audio sent
to it -- like a wave stream and it shows the metadata from
the .flac file on the screen. So it is more fun.

JRiver may show the metadata but there are no fun features

I still have faith in JRiver though and I may consider
an upgrade.

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