The problem is that when it comes time for LMS to send the next track from the album or playlist, although it does get sent to foobar2000 and my script gets run, that second url is not delivered to JRiver or HQPlayer. I send foobar2000's output to 'Null output', so only HQPlayer is actually playing the track. JRiver itself, of course isn't actually playing anything. The track gets sent to both foobar2000 and JRIver at the same time, my script passes it from JRIver to HQPlayer and it plays with HQPlayer. Foobar2000 and LMS playback all kept in sync. I told LMS to keep foobar2000 and JRIver in sync. It is necessary to install the 'UPNP Bridge' plug-in and configure it correctly.įor one track at a time only, I was able to get LMS in sync with HQPlayer by sending to both foobar2000 (with the UPNP component installed) and JRiver. It also supports just about every source out there. LMS allows you to play to multiple players and sync them together. Then I tested using LMS (Logitech Media Server). The disadvantage is that this doesn't support any higher than 16bit 44.1khz and Qobuz can go higher than that with a Sublime or Sublime + subscription. This works fine, excepting the 'single track at a time' limit. So far I have tested my solution with mconnect running on IOS. That solution is limited to linux only though (or a two box/dual boot, Linux and Windows set-up). I know this can be done with HQPlayer embedded, since that can be a upnp renderer. So partly I'm posting this as a cry for help to see if any of you might have some suggestions as to how we could get a UPNP server to send JRiver each subsequent track in an album or playlist, so that my script can then automatically pass the track's url to HQPlayer. I may not have exhausted all the possibilities though. The limitation is caused by the fact that, once J River has handed the url to HQPlayer using my script, J River no longer knows about the URL, and there is no longer any syncing with the UPNP server. This can include Qobuz, Spotify, Tidal, or any other sources the UPNP server in question supports. If you are wiling to play DJ though, it can open up the possibility of sending tracks from any source which can be served from an appropriate UPNP server.

There is no possibility at this time for playback of entire albums or playlists. This is because you are limited to sending just one track at a time.

Don't get too excited though, because once more I have to add the word 'limited' to the title. Now I have added a small enhancement to this DIY script to support feeding JRiver and onto HQPlayer from UPNP servers. Then it evolved into something which, I believe, is quite full featured.

My solution for using JRiver as a front-end to HQPlayer described in this thread was described by me as 'limited'.

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