One day I’m hoping a developer will step forward and do a similar OpenHome plugin for MB, enabling it to act as an OpenHome UPnP client / control point. Yup, there’s a couple of components in Foobar2000 which enable it to feature gapless playback using the OpenHome protocol. Having said that only an exceptionally small number of audio players can actually perform credible gapless playback to a UPnP renderer, and I simply like MB for so many other reasons. I need to caveat that as the plugin has never been good if ‘output as continuous stream’ is selected, meaning no gapless playback. I’m a long-standing user of the plugin and have had very few issues with it, though have only enabled it to play content to a pi (with an attached DAC running Moode Audio) acting as an UPnP renderer. Ideally, if a m3u #EXT playlist was wanted, there would be an option to change its title mask to ‘%album% - %track% - %title%’. Maybe I missed something and this particular issue has already been addressed in MB. As my NAS uses Linux that then had to be modified to ensure it followed the unix path convention (/) et al, but then bingo – the UPNP Server correctly displayed the playlist, starting with the one by R.E.M.!! I got there in the end! I then loaded a m3u #EXT playlist comprising the track (which was refusing to display) into MP3tag from its ‘Playlist’ options changed ‘Extended Write info’ from ‘%artist% - %title%’ to ‘%album% - %track% - %title%’ and resaved the playlist file. I tried m3u ascii, m3u #EXT and even m3u8 as well as pls playlists, but none of this was to any avail. so initially guessed this may be due to certain characters not being supported by m3u. I first noticed this when it ought to have been one by R.E.M. Most of the time MB performs this task admirably, but occasionally I’ve noticed that the music server doesn’t display the first track that features in playlist it’s exported. I’m a massive fan of MB and I like to be able to export m3u playlists from this to a UPNP music server running on a NAS.
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