![]() Like bliss, MinimServer is written as a server side app and, also like bliss, is available for NAS devices like Synology and QNAP (as well as other platforms). The secondary advantage of this approach is that it is suited to large collections because of the opportunity in larger collections to have more diverse metadata basically, the larger the collection, the more possible values your tags may have and so the more difficult to find music in a strict hierarchy. You could almost say MinimServer enables the folksonomy of your music collection. Obvious examples are classical music and compilations from any genre but more generally it benefits any information architecture that is not hierarchical. Where it really shines is when music wants to escape the industry release-oriented approach. You could see this as a bottom-up approach, rather than the top-down driven approach of a hierarchy. MinimServer, on the other hand, has been built in a more flexible fashion: using its intelligent browsing mechanism you can select genres, composers and other fields to progressively narrow down the results across the library. Broadly, most UPnP media servers approach library browsing from the traditional artist / album / track hierarchy. And, indeed, many UPnP servers are pretty similar, offering similar browsing capability. If a standard is overly prescriptive, it means the software writers have less leeway to be creative in how their software works. Nevertheless, without UPnP we'd have a much more closed choice of software to construct our home music networks. In practice it can be a bit more tricky than that, with some servers supporting different capabilities. ![]() It defines how libraries can be browsed, and how playback itself can work.īecause UPnP is a standard, it means (in theory) you can choose which UPnP source ( Media Server), controller ( Control Point), or playback device ( Renderer) you like. ![]() It's an industry standard that defines how media (that's music to us) sources and playback devices interact. ![]() This DSD SPDIF signal can be sent to a native DSD DAC and that way you can listen to pure DSD, rather converted DSD that the Naim streamer otherwise play out.Browse different: why MinimServer stands out from the UPnP crowdįor the DIY digital audio enthusiast, UPnP is often the bedrock of a home music network. However ultimately the best way to playback DSD is use a digital to analogue converter chip itself and digital filters that natively operate with DSD, and internally are being sent DSD/delta sigma bitstreams.Īlternatively you can use a Naim streamer with digital out, and if sent DSD, then sends pure DSD information on the SPDIF (This is known as DoP… where pure DSD is packaged up and sent in the data construct of a 96/24 PCM transport). If not you can always convert separately in a separate transcoder like a UPnP player or Roon and use that conversion algorithm which you may prefer … or not as the case may be. Therefore you may find Naim’s chosen conversion algorithm to your liking or not. It’s very different from converting FLAC to WAV for example which is precise and lossless. The conversion from DSD to PCM therefore occurs prior to the DAC… I suspect by the SHARC processor.ĭSD to PCM is an inexact and ultimately lossy process, and there are many different ways of achieving it with pros and cons. Naim use DAC chips that are natively configured or only work in PCM.
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