Cli Media Renderer is a command-line UPnP audio media renderer/DNLA DMR design for headless operation. It is not a media server or a control point! You cant host media or control playback directly using Cli Media Renderer, it is designed specifically for just playing audio from network sources via remote control.
I was looking for a simple no-fuss command line media renderer for a project I was working on for multi-room audio running on cheap storage-free computers (i.e. Raspberry Pi machines) but couldn't find anything that really met my needs. There seems to be many, many options for running a media server, but not many options for a headless UPnP media renderer which is a little bit odd considering how many options there are for servers. VLC, MPlayer et al are great for the commandline but you need a way to control them over UPnP, so this is basically that missing link: a UPnP->Commandline audio player bridge.
I could have used Squeezebox/Squeeze player but they apparently do not support UPnP which was a big letdown as my NAS only does UPnP and I didn't feel like hacking its firmware to support it. Also there is a large amount of UPnP compatible software, and I can even use the "Play to" feature from Windows 7 with UPnP.
I could have just deployed something like XMBC to the remote devices but I wanted something as small and as light as possible that just ran as an application on the machine without installing a dedicated XMBC image.
The idea is that you have a Raspberry Pi in each room that you want audio in, hook them up to your network and some speakers then run the software.
Get a central UPnP server to serve all of your audio (mine is a NAS drive that came with a built-in UPnP server), then use something like BubbleUPnP for your phone to control the audio playback in each room.
This app uses one key component:
The core of the UPnP code was based loosely on the Cling examples.
It also uses the Apache HTTP Core and Client libraries. Yes yes - those are jar files checked in. Yes I should use maven (or similar); one day I will make that happen but for pragmatic reasons for now I am just checking in everything needed to run.
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