Best iOS app for DLNA playback on the device

MusicStreamer app - not very expensive and seems to work fine. Available from the App Store.

Plex will do this (free))

Roon will do this (very expensive)

I use VLC for exactly this purpose.  I have Minimserver on my NAS and the VLC app gives me essentially the same experience as the Naim app, for searching through my music and finding and then playing the tracks I want to listen to.  I believe it can also play FLAC files stored e.g. in the Dropbox cloud and downloaded to the phone, but I have not yet tried this.  BTW it's free.

Roger

blythe posted:

MusicStreamer app - not very expensive and seems to work fine. Available from the App Store.

Will take a peek thanks.

garyi posted:

Plex will do this (free))

Roon will do this (very expensive)

Thanks garyi

Do you need a Plex account?  Fairly sure I have the app somewhere in my iOS purchases but gave up with it and XBMC years ago.  Free is always good :-)

I have Roon and that's certainly one option but needs the Core as an intermediary - the playback thing is actually something I want for my daughter, and while I've put Roon on her iPhone I don't always have my Roon Core running as I multi-boot the Mac mini with different macOS versions.  I wish Roon would allow multiple Core installations even if it only allowed one to be used at a time.

Peakman posted:

I use VLC for exactly this purpose.  I have Minimserver on my NAS and the VLC app gives me essentially the same experience as the Naim app, for searching through my music and finding and then playing the tracks I want to listen to.  I believe it can also play FLAC files stored e.g. in the Dropbox cloud and downloaded to the phone, but I have not yet tried this.  BTW it's free.

Roger

Didn't think of good old VLC, yet another option to consider - thanks Peakman.

I have a few versions of Infuse on iOS/tvOS devices and they are good at video playback from the NAS and can download local copies of files.  I don't think they offer audio playback, but I may be wrong - if anyone knows differently please let me know!

VLC does this well for me, too. Free, and very easy to set up. 

Apart from VLC and MusicStreamer, both of which are fine, you could try the mconnect or foobar2000 apps. Alternatively, if you happen to be running LMS as your server, iPeng has a very nice UI. There is an in-app purchase option which allows the iPhone to be used as a player. 

Alley Cat posted:

garyi posted:

Plex will do this (free))

Roon will do this (very expensive)

Thanks garyi

Do you need a Plex account?  Fairly sure I have the app somewhere in my iOS purchases but gave up with it and XBMC years ago.  Free is always good :-)

I have Roon and that's certainly one option but needs the Core as an intermediary - the playback thing is actually something I want for my daughter, and while I've put Roon on her iPhone I don't always have my Roon Core running as I multi-boot the Mac mini with different macOS versions.  I wish Roon would allow multiple Core installations even if it only allowed one to be used at a time.

Hi Allycat. You need a plex account, i.e. sign up with plex but you don't need 'plex pass' which is a monthly charge for new features, the free account is fine.

However you need to run a plex server, so firstly check around in the nas that it can install plex (They usually can to be fair)

The reason I mention plex is when you are out and about you can still access that music as long as you have network on your phone, and you can also 'download' music to your phone from within plex much like tidal allows. Tidal is also available within plex now giving you a 'roon' like experience out and about.

Whilst this is not the answer to your original question because its not using UPNP to do this, its is an extremely robust system with a pretty interface.

Peter-C posted:

Apart from VLC and MusicStreamer, both of which are fine, you could try the mconnect or foobar2000 apps. Alternatively, if you happen to be running LMS as your server, iPeng has a very nice UI. There is an in-app purchase option which allows the iPhone to be used as a player. 

Thanks Peter - nice to have all these options!  Currently not using LMS though.

garyi posted:

Alley Cat posted:

garyi posted:

Plex will do this (free))

Roon will do this (very expensive)

Thanks garyi

Do you need a Plex account?  Fairly sure I have the app somewhere in my iOS purchases but gave up with it and XBMC years ago.  Free is always good :-)

I have Roon and that's certainly one option but needs the Core as an intermediary - the playback thing is actually something I want for my daughter, and while I've put Roon on her iPhone I don't always have my Roon Core running as I multi-boot the Mac mini with different macOS versions.  I wish Roon would allow multiple Core installations even if it only allowed one to be used at a time.

Hi Allycat. You need a plex account, i.e. sign up with plex but you don't need 'plex pass' which is a monthly charge for new features, the free account is fine.

However you need to run a plex server, so firstly check around in the nas that it can install plex (They usually can to be fair)

The reason I mention plex is when you are out and about you can still access that music as long as you have network on your phone, and you can also 'download' music to your phone from within plex much like tidal allows. Tidal is also available within plex now giving you a 'roon' like experience out and about.

Whilst this is not the answer to your original question because its not using UPNP to do this, its is an extremely robust system with a pretty interface.

 

Thanks for the update - I don't think my old WD will allow Plex to run (officially anyway) but will check.