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Add-In: Asset UPnP Media Server

By on March 25, 2009 in Digital Media Receivers, Networking, Software, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

Asset is a free media server add-in from Illustrate (developers of the RipNAS home server and RipNAS Essentials CD Ripping add-in) which improves the audio streaming capabilities of Windows Home Server, in a similar way to commercial products like Twonky Media Server.

Using a media server add-in such as Asset allows you to play back a wider variety of audio file formats stored on your home server to a greater number of digital media receiving devices in the home.

assetadvanced thumb1 Add In: Asset UPnP Media Server

Asset features:

  • Designed from the ground up as an audio UPnP server,
  • Album Art support
  • Customizable browse tree with advanced search facilities (Album by Release, Style, Composer, Conductor…)
  • Configurable Wave / LPCM decoding (no quality loss) for devices which cannot play specific audio types,
  • ReplayGain can be applied to Wave / LPCM stream, volume matching across tracks for devices which have no support,
  • Extensive tagging ‘standards’ compatibility,
  • Wide-ranging audio support: mp3, FLAC, Apple Lossless, WMA (inc Lossless), m4a, AIFF, Wave
  • Windows Home Server (WHS) specific install, with WHS Connector configuration,
  • Windows 2000 / XP / Vista compatible,
  • Runs efficiently in the background detecting new & changed tracks (as service),
  • Free


Download: Asset UPnP


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  • GuustFlater

    Dear all,

    And please find on following forum entry my quick review. One major issue needs to be resolved. If that’s done, Asset will be a useful add-in to the WHS. Currently it shows a one minute (!) delay between tracks.
    Issue submitted to dbpoweramp/asset forum.

    http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php?showtopic=7175&hl=

  • Jim

    @GuustFlater – It works fine with my ancient Netgear MP101 without any playback gap. Could it be an incompatibility problem with your Philips player? My MP101 would hang after playing the first song with Windows Media Connect on my WHS.

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