Sound quality comparison

[DavidHB]

(25-08-2014 12:09)JimR Wrote:  I fancy trying this, but I use MinimServer to serve music to multiple devices, some of which can render wav24, whist others cannot. Is there any way to tell MinimStreamer to transcode for certain renderers but not for others?

Simon is the authority, but I'm pretty sure that the answer is 'not at present'.

Simon has been telling us for some time now that the capability to run multiple instances of MinimServer on the same device is on his 'to do' list. If this capability were implemented, separate instances of MinimServer serving the same library could have different settings and you could switch from one server to another depending on which player was in use. How practical this would be would depend to some extent on which control point you are using, but it is perfectly feasible with both Bubble DS and Kinsky, for example.

You can already run multiple instances of MinimServer on different devices (NAS, PC, Linux system or Mac) on the same network, and indeed I do this. However, as MinimServer really needs to work with local storage rather than a network drive, you would also need to mirror your music library to ensure that all your music is available on each server. I already do this (using the Microsoft SyncToy software) for backup and system management reasons, and in fact use transcoding with one of my MinimServer libraries and not with the other. This arrangement works very well.

David