Sound quality IS better.Īnyway, that wasn't the point of the proposal. That isn't good for audio quality which is why ASIO or Kernel Streaming are preferable as they bypass the mixer and preserve the original 44.1kHz sampling. In order to mix multiple sources, everything has to be at the same sample rate so the mixer causes resampling of your CD audio at 48kHz. I think this would be an excellent add-on to what is already an excellent player.Īs far as I am aware, if you use directsound, the audio is routed via the windows audio mixer. Is it possible to use Winamp as the player with some sort of plugin which makes it appear as a UPnP Player? Does such a plugin exist? I haven't been able to find one.
ACCESSING A UPNP PLAYER FROM MY INTRANET SOFTWARE
There are a few software based players - SimpleCenter, On2Share, TVersity etc but none support Kernel Streaming. Most UPnP setups use separate physical players but I want to use the PC as it has an excellent sound card. This means that it can act as a UPnP Client and interact with a UPnP media server and display the media library and navigate to find, play and control tracks. I am using a NevoSL remote which supports UPnP. My preferred player, naturally, is Winamp, mainly because it has a Kernel Streaming pluging so I can send the audio direct to my sound card without any messing around by MS - resampling etc. I am trying to set up my HTPC to play my music without using a PC display - I only have a projector and screen and I don't want to use this for playing music.