DLNA = Digital Living Network Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Digital Living Network Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I am using "various" Digital Media Servers (aka file servers, e.g. my FRITZ!Box 7390, a Linux box running MiniDLND), an Android tablet as Digital Media Controller, and a Sony SA-NS300 as Digital Media Renderer. This DMR gives me the impression, it's not able to play my MP3s w/o stalling every now and then. My MP3s are up to 320kbps. I am playing through wifi and / or Gigabit LAN. Any advise? Shall I return the DMR?

AVM FRITZ!App Media for Android – a DLNA control panel

AVM FRITZ!App Media for Android

(in German only so far)

Android DLNA control panel and media player software

• 2Player – somes plays music from folders in alphabetical order, sometimes in proper order
• Skifta – nice: plays music from folders in a proper row w/o playlists
• AVM FRITZ!App Media for Android – not at all compatible with the network speaker so far

After unsuccessful attempts trying them with these partners last night, they just work today:

• MiniDLNA running on a Linux box – as a media server
• Sony SA-NS300 – as network speaker – not compatible with the FRITZ!App so far
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 – as control panel

The user interfaces for all these control panel apps need severe improvement.

On iTunes or an iPod you can browse through genres and then artists and then their albums, and all this is rather important. I don't look all pieces of all albums of a musician thrown before me alphabetically.

Update / 2011-09-19:
The Sony SA-NS300 as network speaker is a rather unstable device used with any of the control panel apps listed above.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 as a DLNA control panel

Pls use category / label DLNA on this blog to find the details!

Sony DLNA network speaker SA-NS300

SA-NS300 | HomeShare™ Network Speaker| Sony | Sony Style USA: 'via Blog this'

The FRITZ!App media for Android doesn't deal with this device for the time being, so for the time being I cannot operate it as network music speaker.

MiniDLNA: brings your directory tree of music into your LAN using DLNA

MiniDLNA | Download MiniDLNA software for free at SourceForge.net: 'via Blog this'

I run it on my headless Linux machine.