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[The Great]

Hi. I have bought B&W Formation Duo speakers and have connected them wirelessly to my home network. But the speakers do not show up on my MC 23 no matter what I do. I can stream via JRemote and airplay from my iPhone ("this device") to the speakers. I can connect JRemote to the "Player" but this does not allow me to direct the sound to the Formation Duos. Why can JRiver not find my wireless B&W speakers? Help me please and excuse my English. I'm Danish.

[stefano_mbp]

There are no specifications about their DLNA compatibility .... are you sure they are?

[Wheaten]

 B&W Formation Duo, does not support DNLA. It will stream through AirPlay, Bluetooth, LAN, Wifi.
The only way I can think of is to have them added to the system that runs JRiver, for example via BT.
Then set it as default audio device and have JRiver play through the default audio devices.
(at least when the B&W handles the stereo processing, as I don't think the OS will make separate connections per speaker and address them both as L and R speaker) Or is this handled by the APP of these speakers? 

If your audio runs through a DAC, you might consider using something like the Marmitek BoomBoom 100 in TX mode.


 

[The Great]

This is not good news. But thank you very much for your infomartion. Do you think - or is it possible at all - that B&W can make them DNLA-compatible through a firmware update?

[The Great]

Oh and btw. JRiver can not connect to them via bluetooth.

[Wheaten]

This is not good news. But thank you very much for your infomartion. Do you think - or is it possible at all - that B&W can make them DNLA-compatible through a firmware update?

It is possible, but drop a mail to B&W. It's not only a SW update for the speakers but also a web interface or update in the app, to control it. Or have a phone connected to the speakers and stream from gizmo or jremote to the speakers.

Oh and btw. JRiver can not connect to them via bluetooth.

Correct, That's why I suggested some alternatives to make it possible. But you need to provide more details on your complete audio setup.

[The Great]

My stationary computer runs JRiver MC 23 in the corresponding room. I open the JRemote on my iPhone in the living room where the speakers are and stream via airplay to the Duos. I am sorry about my remark on BT, since I just found out that the stationary computer does not have bluetooth. Will the sound not be degraded if I buy the BT device you suggested?

[The Great]

The reason I want to DNLA is that amongst other things make it possible to use Play Doctor.

[Wheaten]

Airplay stream audio lossless, BT is lossy. So you "might" hear differences.
https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/usa/en/blog/difference-between-airplay-bluetooth.

As far as I am aware JRiver doesn't support airplay, So you might get stuck with the apps on your phone

[Isabela]

This is not good news. But thank you very much for your infomartion. Do you think - or is it possible at all - that B&W can make them DNLA-compatible through a firmware update?

Yes it's possible to update to DNLA compatible, The Pearl from Cabasse wasn't DNLA compatible after an update now it is.
3 years later B&W did not update Formation to make it DNLA compatible, so it is now clear they don't want to do that, this is beyond understanding