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I then installed the board into the very fine PiKrust SE anodized CNC milled aluminum case, a beautiful piece made in Oregon. The initial set-up involves procuring an RPi3 board, and flashing a microSD card with the Raspbian Linux OS variant.

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There is also a free version of Asset, but I wanted all of the 'Premium' version's functionality including DSD support, so I popped for the $10. Asset appeared to be the less involved set-up of the two, and I reckoned my $10 might buy me valuable support should I run into headaches. I chose AssetUPnP from the developer Illustrate (also the developer of dBPoweramp), even though it's $10 as opposed to the freeware MinimServer.

Browsing their respective set-up guides revealed a little more Linux command line configuration than I'm entirely comfortable with, but I decided I was up to the task. Again, Moode works wonderfully well on the RPi3 as an endpoint/renderer (better than Volumio/Rune/others in my opinion), but the Moode 'MiniDLNA' server function left me wanting.ДЄt that point I focused on dedicated server programs for RPi3 and quickly narrowed it to two well-known applications: MinimServer, and AssetUPnP.

That's actually an in-depth topic when it shouldn't be, so after various attempts at fixing that problem all ending in failure, I scrapped Moode as server and it's 'MiniDLNA' implementation. Set-up was easy enough, and while it worked and sounded fine, an annoying old problem with various DLNA implementations reared it's ugly head: spotty presentation of the album art. I'm already using a Raspberry Pi3 as a Moode UPnP Renderer (endpoint) in my living room system to great effect with a Resonessence Herus DAC connected via USB, so why not use an additional RPi3 in server mode?Д«ecause I already use and love the Moode distro for RPi3, I tried that first knowing it had a setting in it's configuration menu for use as a DLNA server. Kind of a waste of electricity, the lure of instant multi-room music streaming causing me to be lazy and never power down my computer.

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I'll still use the JRiver/Mac mini combo for local playback where it resides in my bedroom, but I'd like to have a network server elsewhere, primarily to be available to stream music at times the mini is either switched off, or in midst of a software update, or running a CPU intensive application for example.ДЄdditionally, although the Mac mini is a very energy efficient computer, I don't like leaving it on 24/7 just for the ability to stream music to different rooms, but I had found myself increasingly doing just that.

#Minimserver command line driver#

Lately I have contemplated transitioning my network music server off of my daily driver Mac mini running JRiver.