Roku SoundBridge, Windows Media Connect, and NR

[mediahome]

I recently installed a Roku M1000 to stream music from my media server to the stereo in the LR. Windows Media Connect streams all my music including the WMP lossless to the Roku and the Roku has a decent and simple UI. The WAF is pretty good - she can walk up to it and browse through the library and select playlists, artists, albums, etc.

But I want more... Any chance that NR MediaBridge will get a player selection for Windows Media Connect? It would be pretty cool to be able to use NR in addition to the Roku UI to make music selections. People using the other UPnP Media Players such as the DLink and Rockford units would also like to see this I'm sure.

This would appear to be technically feasible. It appears that the recently announced Philips remote uses Thinking Homes software from OpenPeak to control Windows Media Connect. Or so the press releases would make you think.

While I am hoping and wishing... It would really be cool if there was a MediaBridge option to stream audio from the supported media servers to a Barix Exstreamer. That would finally make the Barix units truely usable.

Any hope?

Matt

[midiringtones]

I am a it confused on this, wouldn't it have to control the Roku (which, last I checked, doesn't have TCP/IP control). WMC is just a upnp server, controlling the server wouldn't seem to get you much? Or can you browse the upnp server (WMC) and then force it to send to a specific device? In which case you could control all of your end devices this way (Roku, Dlink, etc)...

If anyone has info, I can certainly dedicate some coding time (been working on control Meedia right now, but I am the type who gets bored easily :)

Curt

[Ben S]

That certainly is the problem (as I see it). Many players now make UPnP servers available, but this only allows streaming of content off of it.

What we what is a UPnP AV Renderer (which makes a UPnP transport available). Unfortunately I'm not sure if any hardware devices support this, as present.

[mediahome]

Thanks for responding guys. I am just getting into the UPnP stuff and am just looking at it from how I would want it to work. I would really like to use NR with the UPnP products that are coming on strong.

From the reading I have done wouldn't you want NR to be a UPnP control point? But the comments above suggest that NR as a control point would have to control the Roku. Obviously the Roku is telling the WMC server to stream something to it. Couldn't NR tell the WMC server to stream something to the Roku?

Matt