Serento: The audiophile UPnP controller app for iOS/macOS

[Donuk]

Well, I have had a couple of days to explore Serento.
When I opened the app the day following installation, it found my network and was well behaved.

My thoughts, strictly subjective....

It is an attractive app, fun to explore and easy on the eye. I like the way it uses external sources and its intelligence to add to one's knowledge about performers, conductors &c. And I agree with the author, it deals with classical music in a refreshing way (Although it has promoted Count John McCormack to the rank of 'conductor'.)

Sorento perhaps needs some additional work - an index down the right hand side of the screen in album view. Also the ability somewhere to click on an album cover and have it go full screen.
But on the whole it is all there, if not exactly where I expect. Viewing and adjusting playlists is not as easy as some other apps.

I find the volume control slider a bit traumatic. If you accidentally slide your finger along the volume line it will instantly go up to 100% and cause alarm with the speakers. Button adjustments with + and - would be preferable, and better for the neighbours.

The main problems are:

I can find no way to incorporate my Qobuz account. Also my Linn remote control will not work with Sorento: go, stop, start or go forward one track is not possible. Volume control is OK.

On the whole, great work in progress, and rather expensive - a dollar a week for a control app?

As for control apps affecting the sound - yes, it sounds nice, but my system does sound nice. I created a playlist and set things going. I then closed down my iPad with the music still running. The quality of sound did not deteriorate. As I understand it, the playlist on one's streamer is simply a list of addresses for the streamer to read from, say, a NAS. But I am willing to be educated....

Hope this helps

Donuk. York