Achieving gapless play regardless of renderer, and other requirements..

[Pastim]

(12-12-2013 20:43)Andre Gosselin Wrote:  

(12-12-2013 18:25)Pastim Wrote:  

(12-12-2013 17:23)Andre Gosselin Wrote:  

(12-12-2013 13:49)Pastim Wrote:  D. On the Hi-Fi, select foobar2000 instance on my desktop as the server, playing the 'Playback Stream Capture' stream

Excellent info. But could you elaborate a bit more on point D ? You select the Foobar instance from your HI-FI device ? Or do you mean you select your renderer *from* the foobar instance, and instruct foobar to play the 'Playback Stream Capture' ?
Regards,

I go to my Hi-Fi device, select the foobar2000 server as my source. This gives 3 options - a Media List, a Playlist, or 'Playback Stream Capture'. I select the latter. This foobar2000 instance is acting both as a renderer for MinimServer, and as a server for the HiFi. I suppose one could use yet another control point to control the interaction between the foobar2000 server and the HiFi renderer, but there is little point, since it is just streaming continuously without need to track selection.

Sorry, maybe I am a little stupid, but I still miss something. When you say "I go to my Hi-Fi device, select the foobar2000 server as my source", do you mean you go to your *physical* HI-FI device (not to foobar or your control point) and that this HI-FI device has *local* controls (buttons, display, handset, ...) which let you select foobar as the source ? Those 3 options you talk about (Media List, Playlist, Playback Stream Capture) are seen and selected on the HI-FI device (local display or device custom control app), or on Foobar app, or on the control point ? What exact HI-FI device do you use ?

I do not see how to replicate your procedure on my own system.

Thanks for your patience.

Yes, that is what I mean, and is what I do, except that I can also use a remote control to tell the Hi-Fi what to do. I can see the 3 options on the Hi-Fi itself. My 2 devices are listed in a previous post. They both have small displays, and remote controls, but they are at the other end of the rooms from where I sit.

As I suggested you could also use a second Control Point to achieve the same thing, using it to tell the Foobar2000 server to send its 'Playback Capture Stream' to the Hi-Fi, but that seems an unnecessary complication.

It turned out to be quite hard to explain this clearly. If you have a system on which you can install foobar2000 (without necessarily setting up a local media library for it since that is not needed) I suggest you do so. Much will become clear (I hope!).