dblml320
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I am not a DLNA expert either....so this means that the M5S cant pull music, instead another device/software needs to push the music?? Does this involve possibly "casting " music to it?
Anyone know what type of software on a PCor phone would be able to send music to it if I wanted to set up something at home that would work with the M5S??
This is not my understanding. I was led to believe by comments from Shanling two things about the M5S:
1. Will be a full DLNA client
2. Will not require an application on a phone in order to play DLNA.
With those said, let me explain more about DLNA. DLNA is a client server system. So somewhere there must be a DLNA server that has access to a collection of music. DLNA servers read the tags of the music and offer music by Album, Artist, and other ways. They typically also offer the music by folder.
A DLNA client that has a connection to a DLNA server can PULL and PLAY music from that DLNA server. DLNA servers are very easy to setup, and there are a lot of free ones floating around out there for usage. If you know about Plex Server, which is not free, it offers a DLNA server implementation. These days lots of HDTV's will also connect to DLNA servers to play music .. probably not widely used however, since most speakers in HDTV's are not very high quality.
The folks had Hiby "Polluted" the paradigm of how DLNA works by requiring you run an intermediate application on your smartphone to receive the DLNA served music, and push it to your phone. For Hiby devices, they do not support DLNA directly. Although they easily could, since they have WiFi built into them.
It is my understanding from Shanling that the M5s is a full DLNA implementation, and so it can play music directly from a DLNA server. If it does not work that way, it will be a purchase show stopper for me.