
Installing the open codecs made them visible, but grayed out and without metadata. At first, FLACs weren't visible to my receiver. WMP works great for natively supported formats, but I have quite a few FLAC files I want to include in my available library. This means it's magic when it just works but, without any configuration interface, impossible to troubleshoot when it doesn't.Īt first, I used Windows Media Player 12's built-in "Allow access" stuff. DLNA is supposed to be completely transparent to the end user. The best part about DLNA and uPnP is also the worst part. Spoiler: I've settled on PS3 Media Server for serving local streams (for now). This lets me do neat stuff like streaming music from uPnP / DLNA sources without having to turn on my television or even be in the same room. Marantz offers a nifty Android and iOS app that lets me remote control my receiver from my phone and iPad. My media server is a PC running Win 7 Home Premium. Feel free to offer advice, sympathy, testimonials, insults, whatever you feel is appropriate.

Firstly, this isn't so much a plea for help as a chronicle of my adventures.
