Gapless streaming and sorting by folder

[Kenneth Horne]

I have a Musical Fidelity CLiC wired to the network.

 

I would like UPnP software to provide gapless streaming.

 

On the face of it, Asset should fit the bill. It's not resource-hogging, and works well without crashing, and allows viewing by folder, but doesn't provide gapless with the CLiC.

 

https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?34672-Gapless-support&highlight=gapless

 

I gather that changing to a Linn DS or Naim would solve the gapless problem with Asset. Can anyone confirm that? That would be a rather expensive fix.

 

I went back to Twonky (3.1), which does seem resource-hogging and prone to crash, but does provide gapless streaming.

 

The trial use of JRiver seems to show that one cannot do a simple sort by folder:

 

how to get J River to display the albums like windows

 

Album friendly Media Library setup thoughts (long)

 

Is there another easy-to-use system (as user-friendly as Asset, for example) which some kind soul could recommend for me to try out? Any CLiC users with successful gapless streaming?

 

Access through sorting by folder is essential.

 

Thanks

[Kenneth Horne]

Try MinimServer ... not as user friendly as Asset perhaps but has been very reliable for me (though not using a CLiC).

 

Thank you - I'll try that tomorrow after I've had a chance to sort out more problems.....

[Kenneth Horne]

Are you sure the Clic handles gapless? Even if you use a server that does gapless (minimserver is the king ), if your renderer (Clic) does not you are out of luck.

 

Although, one additional thing you could try though is in addition to minimserver, run bubble upnp server. This will make your Clic be seen as an OpenHome Media renderer and might help.

 

Yes, the CLiC does handle gapless and shows it can do so with Twonky. Unfortunately, I now remember why I gave up on Twonky - it loses my library and the whole thing needs repopulating every couple of days, so I've uninstalled it.

 

I've now reinstalled a slightly newer version of Asset. My new problem, hinted in the post above, is Asset is now not on the list of media servers. It doesn't show up after reinstallation, rebooting of computer and router and so on.

 

Thanks for the suggestion about minim+bubble - I'll try that in a few days.

 

PS I notice Asset version 5 appeared at dbpoweramp this afternoon.

[Kenneth Horne]

Thanks for that - I may well raise the topic again over there. Meanwhile, another installation has Asset showing in the list of media servers, and it's currently repopulating the library.

[Kenneth Horne]

I'm not sure what exactly provided the cure! I've now installed Asset v.5 (and Bubble server) - the gapless problem is now solved. Thank you all for your advice.

[Kenneth Horne]

I'm not sure what exactly provided the cure! I've now installed Asset v.5 (and Bubble server) - the gapless problem is now solved. Thank you all for your advice.

 

However, today it's back to square 1. There are gaps between tracks of continuous music.

[Kenneth Horne]

John, I did indeed think Asset was involved in the gapless process until the other day, and had begun to think there is a conflict between control points.

 

The Asset edit window says last active control point is auto-selected. I have Asset Control which appears four times, once each for the CLiC, Oppo 105, TM player and on its own. As well as those, other control points are Twonky as part of Windows 6.0 service pack 2, PVConnect and KnOS.

 

I guess one or more of the non-Asset control points gets used for some reason, and has the disadvantage of not enabling gapless.

 

The BubbleUPnP renderers tab shows the CLiC and the gapless tick box is selected.

[Kenneth Horne]

Thank you for the info and the link which I'll have a look at tomorrow.

 

Perhaps I ought to delete Asset Control.......

 

It's a shame I can't get JRiver to display my library how I'd want to (by folder), as by all accounts that system does provide gapless playing. I have quite a lot of recordings of continuous music split into tracks so gapless playing really is essential.

 

The only other alternative should all else fail is to join up all the continuous tracks!