What Streamer is best for me? - Page 3

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Originally Posted by AppleheadMay 

I just might give eLyrics another try myself. There have been a few firmware upgrades to my netowrk player (the Marantz) and I would love to see if it's gianed ALAC compatibility. You Windows users are lucky as they all (or most of them) seem to support WMA and FLAC. Should be coming for ALAC too as it became open source a few months ago.

Funny, I would think ALAC  is useable in most players since most are compatible with Apple hardware.
 

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Originally Posted by AppleheadMay 

I reinstalled eLyric and the iPod app from PSAudio again yesterday.

The problem is the iPod app doesn't detect the eLyric server nor my Marantz player anymore.

It used to in the past though. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

- Are you sure you're on the right WiFi network? My neighbours network doesn't have a password and it frequently happens that my iPhone operates on their Wifi-network.

Normally I don't really mind to much, it functions and they don't seem to mind it - but it can be a pain if you are not on the right network. (There are more apps that do not seem to work in that case, like Bump for instance)

- And is the eLyric server allowed through the windows firewall?

- Can eLyric Manager connect to itself (eLyric Server) on the localhost (IP 127.0.0.1)? If not, your installation might have gone in the same restart loop I discribed earlier.

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Originally Posted by AppleheadMay 

Not on my neighbours network for sure the nearest house is more than 100m away.

Might be something becaue I have both a 2.3 and 5Ghz network, although under the same name.

No windows firewall, on a Mac.

 

I'll have to check the eLyric Manager and eLyric server you talk about though, not sure what the difference is or how to check.

 

By the way, may I ask what step-down transfos you are using for your AT amps?

The frequency of the Wifi-network should not matter - at least not in Europe (I think that in the USA only a smaller set of Wifi-subchannels is allowed in some states, which could matter if the channels cycle). You could check it by setting your router to a fixed subchannel and turning one frequency off. You can alway turn it back on.

Does your Mac have an equivalent of a firewall that needs to be instructed to pass networktraffic?

The installatation of the eLyric server software on the PC has some parts, like a frontend and a backend. The backend is the server, the frontend the manager. In the frontend you specify which folders/directories are to be seen as musiclibraries, what other preferences you have etc. The backend just passes the info along (what is in the database - like libraries or music tags, and it streams music to the Marantz or the iPod).

The database is a SQL-lite version btw. and can also be opened by a normal SQLlite editor.

I use a 300W JA300 by A.S.L. made in the UK for the DHA3000 and a 50W Captora Churj made in Japan for the HA5000. I was told both are audiograde stepdown trafo's.