Hello,
I have been using the setup outlined in
here to enable my JRMC19 installation to work as hub for my USB DAC and control everything from my iPhone including internet streaming. I.e.:
For playing from file server:
JRemote>Player Zone (to WASAPI)>Loopback Zone (to ASIO)>USB DAC
For streaming services (i.e. Mog)
iPhone app (to airport)>shairport4w (to WASAPI)>Loopback Zone (to ASIO)>USB DAC
The 'issues' with this are:
- Everytime the PC reboots, I have to manually start the loopback in the loopback zone
- Because the loopback zone is 'playing' all the time, I have to be careful starting and stopping devices. The PC has to go to sleep (default after 2h idle) before the DAC auto-shutoff (programmed after 30min idle). Similarly, the DAC has to be started before the PC resumes from sleep. I could leave everything on but it would be a waste of energy. That is a limitation of the loopback feature.
- The loopback trick can cause offsets in between video and audio (i.e. Youtube or Netflix). This is not the main point of that PC so I have not explored that too much.
Is there a way to achieve the same result more easily, namely playing server files and streaming from handheld device without any direct interaction with the server?
If not, could that be a development area? It enables using any airport device as a source offering compatibility with virtually every streaming services without proprietary API.
Thanks!