Anyone using XBMC?
Posted by: Gavin B on 29 August 2013
A chap at work is helping me build a media server to store / serve up my music files.
He's used XBMC before. I understand it has UPNP capabilities - anyone use it for this? Any thoughts on how it performs, or on the functionality it provides?
Gavin
A chap at work is helping me build a media server to store / serve up my music files.
He's used XBMC before. I understand it has UPNP capabilities - anyone use it for this? Any thoughts on how it performs, or on the functionality it provides?
Gavin
You can use XBMX as UPNP Server if you want!
XBMC is the best software for free I know.
I use XBMC on my Raspberry PI, tried the UPNP server option with my Unitilite and it worked reasonably well. If it is a windows machine and the only reason you want UPNP is for streaming to a Naim box, I would suggest using Asset UPNP for that instead, it's free and much smarter with sorting your music collection.
I use XBMC on my Raspberry PI, tried the UPNP server option with my Unitilite and it worked reasonably well. If it is a windows machine and the only reason you want UPNP is for streaming to a Naim box, I would suggest using Asset UPNP for that instead, it's free and much smarter with sorting your music collection.
Think xbmc make Sense for the Main Thing it was made for. Video!
however a raspberry Pi with xbmc would be the cheepest Way to Play spotifTony airplay
but it just has HDMI as digi out
I use XBMC on my Raspberry PI, tried the UPNP server option with my Unitilite and it worked reasonably well. If it is a windows machine and the only reason you want UPNP is for streaming to a Naim box, I would suggest using Asset UPNP for that instead, it's free and much smarter with sorting your music collection.
Thanks - that's exactly the sort of feedback I was looking for. One of the reasons for changing to this box was to get additional functionality over my existing ReadyNAS.
And, as Ragman says, I can still use XBMC for video.