Streaming From Phone

Posted by: David S Patterson on 16 April 2014

Ive always been a bit slow on the uptake re. Streaming. Only got into it last year with the ND5XS and have loved it . A simple setup of dedicated music laptop and switch in music room.
So last night when fiddling about with my Galaxy Note2 i flipped over the switch to activate DLNA, and hey presto all my music on my phone pops up on my nstream app on the ipad.And it works brilliantly. My music on my phone is all mp3 but the result is really quite acceptable.
I use music manic v2 on android to download free tomy phone ,great for a tryout before pos purchasing the album. Also every lp or any music for that point i have purchased from amazon i get a free mp3 download which is also accessed via my android phone. So many ways to access new music which at the end of the day ends up me buying more.
Posted on: 16 April 2014 by garyi

Not sure what you are driving at here. convenience I guess.

 

Suffice to say there are ways to get UPNP to your renderer more efficiently.

 

If you are using a 'dedicated laptop' then I would suggest you might want to consider freeing that laptop up, after all its a laptop, its like using a mini as a tractor.

 

Get yourself a NAS, this can be as little as a 150 quid, will store all you music and be constantly available on your network as a source for music, freeing up your laptop which can be relegated to its traditional duties.

 

The NAS should be well away. i.e. in another room or preferably the garage. If you are feeling particularly saucy you could get an old PC or server. Just this week I picked up an dell R300 server for fifty quid, 4 gigs of ram, two Sata drives, 2.13 core duo processor.

 

This is well over specced for music. You could install a dedicated ripping server such as vortexbox onto it. A couple of 2tb drive the whole lot would set you back less than 300 quid. (But depends on the server being well away from anything as its noisy)

 

 

For some reason peoples around this particular forum feel the need to 'see' their NASes or Servers within the music space, which makes no sense what so ever, if you can get over this hurdle you could create a fantastic UPNP server for literally peanuts.