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  1. Thanks for this info, Audio_elf. It sounds like I was describing the situation where one has the Oppo 105 and uses the Analog outs to send the data that's been processed by its DAC. I will compare the Oppo->Denon vs just straight to Denon in case, as you described, it sounds better. Thanks Cebolla, unfortunately, this won't work for me. I really need the TreeView control to navigate my library as I listen to various Tracks or Albums while working from my office and the music I want to listen to is constantly changing. Dropping a list of songs into this single scrolling window will be too slow for me. However, I did get a chance to look at JRiver and I am very impressed, especially since the DLNA support allows you to use the native TreeView like navigation control on the left side of the application rather than a something that has been bolted onto the app with Foobar and the 3rd party component. It even has a "Folder" view via Audio-Files which matches what I've always used with Foobar. However, while I was able to get DLNA working in Foobar, JRiver is not currently able to control my Denon or Oppo. I'm getting error messages ("There was a problem controlling the selected DLNA device....." and "Something went wrong with playback") using the trial version of JRiver so I'll need to look into this some more. If I can solve this issue, then I'd switch over to Jriver as it definitely offers a more elegant UI for this functionality. The Denon actually does support DSD from both USB and network (computer, DLNA) sources. However, they do specify .dsf and .dff extensions in the manual. Once I get JRiver controlling my music library over DLNA, I'm going to see how it's handling SACD music playback. I might need to convert my ISO's to dsf/dff or forget DLNA and use a CAPS like server running JRiver with HDMI out and play the ISOs that way.
  2. Thank you all for the great responses! After reading those links, I see now that what I was asking was if I can use Foobar as the Control Point for my receiver. Here are the current pieces I'm testing with in my office: Media Server: Synology 1812+ Media Renderer: Denon S900W Control Point: Foobar on a Surface Pro 3 and a Asus Laptop It looks like I had started down the right path as I had already installed the foo_upnp plugin, but didn't realize I had to launch the Controller window and use the related UPnP Controller Playback Queue tab to play the files. Once I read the links from above, I was able to quickly set this up and play music through the receiver while being controlled by Foobar. That's the good news. Unfortunately, I see some issues with using Foobar in this situation: 1) Not being able to use the Library Viewer Selection tab to play files (this is how I've always used Foobar as I can quickly navigate through thousands of folders/files and quickly play what I feel like hearing next). Also, not being able to use the main navigation/play buttons is unfortunate. 2) The conversion to WAV rather than having the receiver do the conversion itself 3) I'm currently unable to play SACD ISO files I've only spent 30 minutes on this tonight so I'm going to see if I have some time this weekend to play with this some more. I'm also going to take a look at J.River to see if it offers a better or similar navigation tree UI for selecting songs with a mouse. Also, when I went to select the Renderer from the drop-down in Foobar I noticed that my Oppo 103D was listed. I'm thinking this might even be a better option to use the DAC in the Oppo and then HDMI out to the Denon receiver.
  3. Hi Guys, Just found this forum, so much reading to do! Anyway, over the years I've used the following methods to listen to my lossless FLAC/HiRes digital library which is located on a Synology NAS: 1) Logitech Media Server and Logitech Duet 2) Logitech Media Server and LMS iPhone app 3) Foobar on my home computer I'm selling the Logitech duet and have just purchased some networked receivers which support FLAC up to 192Kh and DSD file playback. As well, I really love how easy it is to select songs to play using Foobar, especially given that I have over 2TB of audio files (my view of choice is the folder view). Given this, is it possible to use Foobar as the front-end to a Denon/Marantz networked receiver? What I mean by this is these receivers provide an app for selecting music to play on the receiver, but I find them slow when navigating across a large library. Ideally, I'd love for the receiver to be connected to my files on the NAS via Ethernet/DLNA, but use Foobar on a Laptop/Tablet to control which files will be played by the receiver. Just to be clear, I'm not looking to play files on the laptop/computer and send them from the laptop/computer to the receiver, instead, I'm wondering if I can use Foobar the same way their app is used to control which files the receiver connects to and plays. If this is possible, I'm assuming SACD ISO playback is out as although it's supported in Foobar, the receivers don't support playback of this type of file.
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