Feature request: DLNA

[id628]

I would love DLNA support so I can play music over my family room system without having to turn on the projector to control the Roku...

While having the Subsonic server's Jukebox mode sending the music to the DLNA-compatible receiver via DLNA would be best, I'm afraid that's not on his priority list.

So second best would be having my Android Dsub play it directly to the DLNA receiver.

Have you looked at Cling? It's open source:

http://www.teleal.org/projects/cling/

[kampkrusty]

I was able to redirect my server's audio output to my Sonos Play:1 via the following Icecast2/Darkice tutorial:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/28496/ho ... my-network

Once installed, I created a user named "jukebox", allowing jukebox mode and defining its player as jukebox. Then I defined the radio station in Sonos for the streaming URL. When I log in as that user via any web brower, the pulse audio on the Subsonic server gets redirected to my Sonos device, albeit delayed and what-not. But at least it works. As I own a Sonos Play:1, there is no line-in to bridge the hardware. Also, I do not plan to use the My Music To Me app

The issue is that this does not work via the DSub app. I defined my connection in DSub and, once connected, went in to the web interface and changed the player for that device/user to jukebox. But it appears it is not using a similar method as the web login, as DSub does not use the jukebox player. So here are my questions:

1. Is jukebox mode even a possibility via DSub? I do realize the delay of Icecast/Darkice may be a show-stopper regardless, but I would be interested to see if this would work

Now that DLNA/UPnP is available in Subsonic, is there a roadmap for supporting this via DSub? Via:

2. Server/jukebox mode to a DLNA renderer?
3. DSub app directly to a DLNA renderer? Having a menu option in the app to choose between the Android device or an available renderer?

An app such as BubbleUPnP will allow me to access my Subsonic library and play to my Sonos renderer, but at the mercy of the BubbleUPnP interface/navigation. As I like the DSub interface and feature set, being able to use DSub without additional software would be great. And with the new Sonos players almost literally flying off the shelves at stores like Best Buy, now would be the time to add this functionality to DSub

What makes it interesting is that I am running Subsonic 4.9 beta 1 on Ubuntu Server 12.10 under a VM on ESXi 5.1, which does not support sound devices. And due to my server's hardware limitation, I cannot enable device passthru. It just goes to show that anything is possible

[daneren2005]

You can do Jukebox mode the same way that you do it in the normal client. On the now playing screen there is a little RC button that you can press to go into Jukebox mode. As for the DLNA portion, I have it on the todo list, but don't know when I am going to get to it.

[kampkrusty]

Boy did I miss the RC button...thanks!

Now all I have to do is find a better streaming option than Icecast2/Darkice. Since that provides an http address for Sonos to connect to, do you know if I can create a transcoding option in Subsonic to stream audio via http?

[kampkrusty]

Do you know if I can create a transcoding option in Subsonic to stream audio via http?

[daneren2005]

Do you mean make the jukebox mode control something besides the server audio? I doubt it.

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[kampkrusty]

It would be nice if a concurrent http stream could trigger when jukebox mode is initiated. Since there is already an http live streaming command defined for video, I thought that maybe since the transcoding ability is already there that it wouldn't take much to add in the audio option. But I guess that would be up to Sindre