physical remotes, ios Simple Remote app, Jremote, Logitech wireless keyboard, etc. I'm using a hodge podge of devices to control playback currently. For example, you can pick a song and choose for it play now, next, or at the end of the current playlist. In addition to playing SACD ISOs, which Kodi will not, Jriver has much more robust playlist features. I've been using Kodi mostly to play my video files, and Jriver for the audio files. I also have the latest Dune Solo 4k player. I have a Windows 10 HTPC with both Kodi and Jriver Media Center. So, the ability to navigate to different songs/chapters is very important to me. My video collection consists almost entirely of concerts. My DVD and Bluray collection is ripped to BDMV folders (a few ISOs and MKV files as well). I have a lot of multi-channel SACD ISO files. Where I am struggling is finding a user friendly system for my network media file playback.Ĭurrently I have my media library installed on a QNAP NAS. Denon AVR4520ci, Sony 2015 LED TV, OPPO 103d Blu-ray player. Most of my equipment is pretty standard, so I expect it would work fine with Control4. It also opens up the option to use MinimServer.I'm thinking about a Control4 system. If SQ is more important, suggest getting a separate good renderer with good power supply to feed a DAC. So Roon on QNAP, without a Roon end point, will be an expensive solution with compromised SQ. The Roon server side takes a lot of resources (CPU and disk) and that impacts the SQ of renderer.

One of the ways to get good SQ is to separate the music server from the renderer and that is highly recommended by Roon themselves to have a separate Roon end point.

Is sound quality (SQ) or convenience of having everything all in the NAS more important? I guess I have to go to Roon then, very expensive, but at least it works. I like JRiver's Media Center a lot but there's only a workaround with Docker, which I don't understand enough to get it running. It works with QNAP's own music app, but this app is as crap as hell and unfortunatelly totally unusable. (14-09-2019 11:28)Grundgütiger Wrote: I am looking for a solution for a music server software that can handle my audio files on my NAS for quite some time now.

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