Announcement: Whitebear Media Server (UPnP/DLNA) v2.0 released !!

[AndrewFG]

I have just released a much reworked version 2.0 of Whitebear Media Server.

Whitebear Media Server is UPnP/DLNA compliant Digital Media Server. It is a Windows application that runs on the same computer as SqueezeBox Server. It is a "frontend" to SqueezeBox Server that adds UPnP/DLNA Digital Media Server features on top of Squeezebox Server's normal functionality.

You can download it on http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver

For the technically minded: Whitebear Media Server talks to SqueezeBox Server via the latter's CLI interface to read the music database, and it takes advantage of SqueezeBox Server's helper applications faad.exe, sox.exe, flac.exe, (lame.exe) for serving and transcoding the music files.

System requirements: Windows XP, Vista or W7 / Squeezebox Server v7.5.x (or later)

Note: Whitebear Media Server has so far been tested against a handful of UPnP Digital Media Control Points and Renderers -- namely Sony's KDL-40Z4500 TV, Oppo's BDP-83 Blu-Ray player, Microsoft's Windows Media Player v12, and Illustrate's Asset Control application. Please free to try it with other Control Points and Renderers, let me know if you encounter problems, and I will do my best to resolve them...

[Nikhil]

Cool thanks, will test it out. Any chance of seeing this on a non windows platform like linux or macosx? Also any chance on extending this to serve DAAP clients as well?

[AndrewFG]

Any chance of seeing this on a non windows platform like linux or macosx?

Nothing is planned for the time being. I am focussing on "perfecting" the Windows version first.

Also any chance on extending this to serve DAAP clients as well?

Excuse my ignorance, but what is a DAAP client ??

[pippin]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is a DAAP client ??

iTunes

[AndrewFG]

iTunes

Ahah!

[AndrewFG]

I just released v2.0.1 of Whitebear Media Server http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver.

It has many small bug fixes, and improved transcoding support.

[AndrewFG]

I just released a new build of v2.0.1 of Whitebear Media Server http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver.

Added: transcoding support from Monkeys APE files.

It now supports transcoding as follows:

Source: AAC, AIF, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MOV, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, WAV, WMA and WVP
Target: PCM, MP3, WAV and FLAC.

[MrSinatra]

i am really impressed. so many people have asked for this.

i wonder if you should should announce in the general forum as well, as many people don't visit other forums? just link to this thread.

(i am hoping you can code this to work on a readyNAS x86 machine eventually)

[Metazargo]

...but I'll have to wait until someone has the patience to port it to Linux, i.e. my QNAP NAS.

Congrats anyhow!

Have you plans to add image and video support from the filesystem?

[TiredLegs]

Thanks for making this available.

Does Whitebear enable DLNA players to sync with Squeezeboxes running on the same Squeezebox server?