misterdog
Not the canine kind
Care to expand ?
Well the pro's and con's can be simply defined with the word - incompatability.
I wish to use this, to control that, should be simple in this day and age - no.
The Lightning DS is good but only available on Apple devices,so I had to borrow one, a year ago..
I would prefer to use the GUI of JRiver on my laptop though.
I believe Auralic have a team of 3 dedicated software guys working on support and development, yet it has taken over a year to enable desktop control of the device, with no control of the library as yet.
I tripped over a comment on a forum this afternoon which stated "Calculus is simpler than computer audio "
I agree there is a myriad of media players, servers and renderers all vying to dominate using their own protocols and software solutions. A mountain of hardware all using it's own operating systems with constant updates.
It's not an area that I would wish to join looking for solutions.
Having said that my system works well and has great sound quality, though any problems with the Wi-Fi network means -no music..
This is a useful read with UPNP/Open Home a third of the way down.
https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/pages/homenet-audio.html