Article: Using HQPlayer With Aurender and Other Music Servers

[Fyper]

Very interesting. Thanks for this.

But it looks like a lot of efforts for not much: if you have to use a PC in such a set up you need to make sure that the sound quality and/or the navigation software provide real added value compared to a PC also used as a source.

I would think the main interest of using a standalone player is precisely not to have to go through the use of a PC and have a ready to play solution.

That being said, it's a shame that these network players do not include a digital loop to insert a DSP processor like the old Slimdevice Transporter use to have. Now that DRC and upsampling is common use, it should come as a standard.

Looks to me that your idea of having your NAS/server compute the DRC and HQPlayer is a simpler idea, Upnp or not.