Dlna and wav files

[PastorTube]

I am Setting up a dlna server on an old MacBook using Jriver. All my music are wav files. I have multiple raspberry pi systems. One is connected to my main stereo which then goes through an ANK 2.1 dac. I had been using separate hard drives with all my music on each drive so playing wav or flac was never a problem. I set up dlna and notice on my iPhone and iPad it comes up as MP3. Does dlna only “stream” mp3? Does dlna convert wav to mp3 before sending out?

Thanks in advance

 

[ChrisCables]

I looked at JRiver before deciding to go with Foobar /Foobar server.
I'm pretty sure JRiver has downsampling options to suit bandwidth etc. so it might be pre-set.
If of any use you can stream even 32bit .wv files via Foobar....FTW.

 

[dewdude]

DLNA/UPnP streaming supports, quite literally, any format you want it to. It's largely just a method of making media available in a manner that automatically configures the connection between your server and streaming clients. The limitation is in the devices on each end of that connection. There is a minimal standard specified...and that tends to be MP3; so it's pretty trivial for Jriver to convert to mp3 in real-time. Check your JRiver configuration to make sure it's making WAV an available format and check the RPi setup to make sure it will do WAV over DLNA.

I used a DLNA/UPnP server that not just supported a plethora of real-time transcoding options; but it would dynamically handle formats based on the agent/client header returned by the application. So it knew for example that my TV only supported MP3 audio while my stereo supported MP3/AAC/OGG/FLAC/WAV/DSF; so it would feed my TV everything in MP3 and feed my stereo native. I even had an Android player that would allow UPnP over VPN; it also allowed me to manually specify my agent header. I could pick the format behavior to match network condions by just plopping in a modifier to my agent field.

 

[cpt_paranoia]

Does dlna only “stream” mp3? Does dlna convert wav to mp3 before sending out?

No; as above, DLNA is very versatile in its codec support. Part of the specification supports a renderer (endpoint) declaring which codecs it supports. A server can then deliver a suitable stream; either one that it has a file for, or by transcoding on the fly (for more advanced DLNA servers).

It sounds like you have configured JRiver to support transcoding, for some reason.

What music playing app are you using on the iPhone & iPad (DLNA support is not 'native' to iThings, as it isn't an Apple protocol)? Do they support WAV?

 

[PastorTube]

Thanks for the replies. I had to change a setting in Jriver. Simple fix