Raspberry Pi 5 as network storage, music server, and player - PART 5

5. ENABLE UPnP/DLNA Bridge Plugin (to stream to a DLNA streamer)

From the pCP configuration interface - http://pcp.local:9000

in the drop-down menu go to Plugins > Manage Plugins

Scroll to the very bottom of the list and select "Use unsupported extensions"

then select the checkbox for "UpNP/DLNA Bridge"

After a short wait, you will be returned to the upper list of plugins and a prompt to restart Lyrion.  It's best to fully close the Lyrion configuration webpage, return to the piCorePlayer page, and click "Restart LMS".

Now when you go to the Lyrion server settings, in the drop-down menu there will be a new listing for "UPnP/DLNA bridge".

Don't worry about error messages regarding a missing configuration file, this will resolve itself once a DLNA endpoint can be seen on the local network.

If your DLNA streamer device is a WiiM Mini, there's a very important setting to change under "UpNP/DLNA Bridge" -

change the "Gapless" setting from "Yes" to "Force"

Without this simple change, Lyrion will play OK, but when you use the "skip" function it will advance two tracks ahead, and it will also fail to seek through individual tracks.

I suspect this change may be needed for some other DLNA streamers, too.


Now go ahead and connect a DLNA streamer to your local network.

Access the Lyrion left menu bar by clicking on the 3 horizontal lines at the top-left of the Lyrion interface, and your newly connected streamer should be recognised as a Lyrion player.

Optimal sound quality will be achieved if you configure the player for bit-perfect output:

At the bottom left of that menu bar, click on Player Settings, then "Extra Settings".  In the drop-down menu, go to -

Audio - disable "Crossfade" "Smart Crossfade" "Crossfade Across Different Sample Rates" "Volume Control - Output level is fixed at 100%"

There's also a section called "DSDPlayer" - more on that later.

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