Asset R5 for QNAP, OSX, Linux & Pi
Posted by: sjbabbey on 20 September 2016
Asset UPnP R5 for QNAP etc. has now been officially released after beta testing.
Change details from the dBpoweramp/Asset UPnP forum:
* DSD support
* UPnP search support
* New database design, faster at indexing, browsing albums
* Upstream art uses compilation artist, but will replace with non-compilation later
* Now uses persistent browse ids (even if asset is restarted)
* Dynamic browsing added [List Albums]
* Monkey’s Audio codec
* Added a forced timed rescan option to help with scenarios where folder change tracking doesn't work reliably
* Added an option to hide [All Tracks] / [Shuffle Tracks] items - in both configuration and per control point overrides; use [NoAllTracksItems] in control points override to hide these items.
* Fixed a bug causing MP3 files to take a long time to index on slow machines
* Fixed “download configuration dump” giving malformed file on machines with little /tmp space, QNAP in particular
Please note that this Asset R5 release is also for the Raspberry Pi platform.
I have been using it, under the Beta release program, for a good number of months on a RPi2 and it is working just fine, supporting DSD through dsf file formats, as well as DoP (DSD64 over PCM) formats. I believe it does support dff, but I convert these to dsf and act metadata.
With the Asset version on RPi2, I have customized the tree directory, and icon structure to suit use from the Naim App on iOS - the tree structure allowing the Naim app to manage the A-Z listings, and white on black icons for the menu structure, matching the top-level Naim ones for sources etc., so it looks as 'OEM' as possible.
All formats stream fine including 24/192 and DSD64 over a NFS mount back to a remote NAS, with all PCM formats transcoded to WAV, as recommended by Naim for best SQ.
Setup is straight forward, with just a little networking and Linux knowledge required.
Sounds great with my new NDS/555DR setup 
Simon.