That's interesting. In the past I have asked associates of mine with more technical knowledge than I about how and why certain streaming protocols can be "better" than others. I remain dubious about whether some of these protocols are necessarily "better" in a technical sense, though they may be better in the way they include metadata.ldolse wrote:I've also seen hints that some of the mpd devs are working on DLNA and RAOP support, which would provide an exciting addition for higher quality network broadcasting than the current shoutcast/http functionality.
I just did a Google search for "Music Player Daemon DLNA" and I get these two MPD developer links -
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.au ... devel/2050
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.au ... devel/2048
It appears to me that the MPD patch under discussion doesn't add DLNA-streaming per se, but rather it adds header information to the standard HTTP stream so that a particular brand/model of UPnP media renderer (Naim UnitiQute) will accept the stream.
The Naim UnitiQute, by the way, is over $2000!