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JimH:
I'm going to split your last post and any replies to a new thread.

Use Library Server, not the DLNA Server.  Run it on your server (where media is), connect to it from the client, using File/Library Manager.

You will see a zone called "There" in Playing Now on the client.  Choose it.

If you're confused, read the Servers article in our wiki.  It explains more.

dtc:
Jim - I can give that a try, but according to the Wiki article

"It provides on-demand streaming of files (music and images) from a server to a client. The server is the one that makes its library available to other computer, while the client is the computer that sees those files. It allows the user to share the library from one computer to another computer, or across the Internet. "

I do not want to stream anything. Are you saying that if I use a library server on my netbook (server) that the file will not be streamed to my laptop (client), but rather will be played directly on my netbook (server). That is not the way I read the Wiki article.

Thanks.

Tom

dtc:
IT WORKS! Thanks so much.

The missing link was the Playing Now There:Zone1 option.  I had not found that. It might be nice to add that trick to the Wiki, maybe in the Library Server section or as a stand alone entry. It would also be nice to have a desciption of Zones and how to use them in the Wiki.

Part of my trouble is that I never could figure out how to use TRemote. It is not in the Wiki and I could not find a clear description of its use other than the long development thread, so I thought it had been consumed by DLNA. I am not sure how this solution relates to TRemote.

Now that I have this working, I think this is a great feature and one that should be advertised as another part of the "Remote Assess Suite":

Media Center Remote for a traditional IR remote
DLNA for sending files to DLNA devices
WebRemote for using a web browser on a non-PC device
PC Remote (or some name like that) for using a PC as a full UI remote

Unlike the TRemote thread, I am using a Netbook as my player and to hold the library and media files and a bigger, general purpose  laptop as the remote. It has almost nothing else running on it. I do not even have anti-virus on it, since I do not get email or browse with it. So, there is very little to interfere with the audio. And it is is low power and can run for hours off its battery. I have a M2Tech HiFace for output using WASAPI and am playing from memory. Very minimilist system. CPU usage is about 5%, even on the little Netbook using my main laptop as the UI.


Now I never have to leave my chair when listening!

docles:

--- Quote from: docles on March 26, 2010, 02:16:18 am ---Hello,

It seems that I am in the same situation.
1. I have a server (windows home server) where all my music files are located, with JRiver (14.155) running. The files location in JRiver are network path type (//SERVER/MUSIC/xxx). JRiver on the server is dedicated to 2 tasks : Library server and DLNA server (all the 3 dlna boxes are ticked)
2. I use a laptop to control everything with JRiver (14.155)
   - the library is loaded from the server
   - the renderer can be seen in the playing device list (DLNA control box ticked)


When I try to request the renderer to play a file from the laptop controlling, I get an error message saying "this feature requires a DLNA server to be running. Please enable a DLNA server in Options > DLNA".

I don't see any complexity in this configuration, just a way to store files in a dedicated server with a other computer controlling features.

Do you have any solution.


Thanks


Best regards

Docles

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Now with MC 15.0.31, it is working correctly.

Thanks

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