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We're going to need a little more info here

Network topology and devices?
Windows PC type, and what else is running?
File types?
Just Hi Def or all files?
What DLNA contol point in use, on what device?
WiFi / broadband configuration?
Other WiFi signals in the area (these can confuse the control point)?

Hi I will try and answer some of those questions...it plays basic ripped cds but not WAV Hi Def downloaded from HD tracks.All my music is on my laptop ASUS s400c i5 windows media player . have tried  ethernet  cable plug into the router  ...the same results 

my suggestion is the disk read speed on your laptop, not renown for being the fastest. Can you try a NAS instead?

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I have been thinking about a NAS for some time.Any suggestions...

Simon, he's using Windows 10 and still hasn't told us what else he's running in addition to WMP (not the best DLNA server in any case!).

I suspect it's all the background applications accessing the disk and increasing the apparent disk latency for WMP.  A typical 2.5" SATAII HDD has plenty of bandwidth and perfectly good enough access times for HD audio streaming if it's not overloaded.

However a NAS will probably sort it.

I have been thinking about a NAS for some time.Any suggestions...

Favourites on the forum are Synology & QNAP.   I'm a Synology user, it does it all for me mainly because of its user friendly OS management & that its native Media Server works best for playing my choice of WAV (& DSD) file format.   If I was buying a new one I would certainly think about maybe a QNAP with Asset media server

Mike-B posted:

I have been thinking about a NAS for some time.Any suggestions...

Favourites on the forum are Synology & QNAP.   I'm a Synology user, it does it all for me mainly because of its user friendly OS management & that its native Media Server works best for playing my choice of WAV (& DSD) file format.   If I was buying a new one I would certainly think about maybe a QNAP with Asset media server

As Mike B says either Synonlogy or QNAP - I use QNAP HS210 - with the latest Asset, recently ugraded to new verison, much better for ease of use and searching

My files on NAS are losses in FLAC and transcode to WAV works really well from my NDX 

from memory the QNAP + WD Red 2TB was about £500 -

Littlefeat posted:

Hi I will try and answer some of those questions...it plays basic ripped cds but not WAV Hi Def downloaded from HD tracks.All my music is on my laptop ASUS s400c i5 windows media player . have tried  ethernet  cable plug into the router  ...the same results 

Did you try a wired Ethernet connection for both the laptop and the Uniti?

Chris, good point, if you weren't using a wired connection all the way through from the server to the media player, then you're using WiFi not wired.