At the weekend, I went to that there London. A friend had his house all set up with Skifta a DLNA compliant integration thingy. Some initial thoughts on that platform made for interesting crossover with what SCANPI is already doing for me.
- Playing Music is all good and works with his DLNA compliant Blu-ray player.
- Having to scroll through all his various attached devices took ages - perhaps a single consolidated view of all music across all devices would make sense.
- Selecting what to play from multiple devices (Android tablet + phone) = last one wins.
- Queueing - very frustrating that there is no way to locally (i.e. on the current browsing device) queue up a number of items to play.
- Feedback - the currently playing track is shown, but nothing about how long is left / has played / etc is available on the tablet Skifta service. The phone's internal DLNA media controller did have this information.
- We couldn't find a way to get the MP3 or M3U versions of export from SCANPI to push to the currently selected Blu-ray player
Short summary: I need to read more about http://www.dlna.org/ and perhaps copy and paste some stuff to make a SCANPI installed PI a compliant device? (BOTH a device which knows about content AND a device to which content can be sent/played).
