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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 23 for Windows => Topic started by: LennyM on August 06, 2020, 02:57:12 pm

Title: DLNA Gapless Playback
Post by: LennyM on August 06, 2020, 02:57:12 pm

I moved from a laptop running MC into a DAC, to the same laptop and MC controlling a DLNA renderer into the DAC.  It worked easily and sounds great.

But I seem to have lost gapless playback. That option has disappeared (as has everything else from Options-Audio) when telling MC to run a DLNA device.

Can I recover gapless playback using the DLNA?

Thank you.

Title: Re: DLNA Gapless Playback
Post by: LennyM on August 07, 2020, 12:17:31 am

I did the search I should have done earlier and now see that many users have had the same issue.

For the moment I am using an Oppo 105 as the renderer, and as I wrote earlier it sounds fine.  I am planning, though, to get something even better, but it may take a while.  I do still have 3 questions:

In an earlier post announcing MC improvements it said: "your device still MUST support GetMediaInfo as well as SetNextAVTransportURI for gapless playback."  I gather that the Oppo does not met these requirements.  Am I correct?

Is there a list of renderers that do meet these requirements?  Or if I contact a manufacturer and ask, will they know what these are?

Would the purchase of the latest MC27 solve this problem for me using the Oppo?

Thanks.

Title: Re: DLNA Gapless Playback
Post by: Awesome Donkey on August 07, 2020, 04:35:40 am

You might try running AndrewFG's app Whitebear Digital Media Renderer Analyser and run it against your Oppo 105 and see what the report says, but I seem to recall the Oppo 105 doesn't support SetNextAVTransportURI which is needed for gapless playback over DLNA.

http://www.whitebear.ch/dmra

If you do run the app and in the report it says AVT:SetNextAVTransportURI (gapless play)=NOT Supported then gapless playback won't work at all. There's nothing JRiver Media Center can do about it if the Oppo 105 doesn't support SetNextAVTransportURI.

Title: Re: DLNA Gapless Playback
Post by: LennyM on August 07, 2020, 12:43:59 pm

Thank you for your response.  I appreciate the continuing support for MC23.

As an MC23 person I would appreciate knowing what the latest MC offering offers me beyond what I already have.  It would seem to be reasonable marketing for JRiver to have a "sticky" and succinct thread here that could be updated with each new MC edition.