Bad news, maybe. I still have to use a damn TV monitor.
I found that I had to download an app called "Music Server" to the UHP-H1 itself. It appears on the screen under "my apps." Finding this on the SONY website was circuitous at best. This application seems to be created for the Sony Walkman and the info hasn't been updated since! That app identifies a structure called Photos, Music, and Videos. One must have the (SONY) Music Center for PC (MCP) installed on the PC. This has its own structure that is like the normal music display of playlists, albums and so on of WMP, Roon, foobar, and so on. It does not match 1-1 with the Music Center. Once you get handshaking accomplished, there is a "Throw" option on the PC-based MCP that would seem to make the PC the master and the UHP-B1 the slave but at this point in my enquiry it seems one has to have both the PC and the Player running. There is also an HSEE processing option on MCP - do not know if I use this or the native DSEE processing on the UHP-H1.
What I want is the PC to push music to the UHP-H1. I want the player to recognize the PC if there is no disk in the SONY player and just play the music stream over my 155Mbs wifi. I don't want to turn on a monitor every time I try to do this. Time will tell. I can see why manufacturers are now putting apps on phones pad that control things to obviate the TV.
I am looking at this as educational - it shows that SONY is multimedia oriented with HSEE thrown in with SACD, DVDA as a bone to the audio enthusiast. I'm also getting a better feel for the structures of digital music. It is basically a server, streamer/renderer, DAC model that is a throwback to the old client/server model of computing with extra hardware thrown in. Reminds me of WNT networking.
I'm going to try to set the Music Server as the default app on the UHP-H1 when there is no disk. If not, I'll try other things to get rid of the damn flat screen. I'm also going to look for an iPhone app to control the damn UHP-H1 like OPPO and numerous other have. Maybe a "Walkman app!
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I found that I had to download an app called "Music Server" to the UHP-H1 itself. It appears on the screen under "my apps." Finding this on the SONY website was circuitous at best. This application seems to be created for the Sony Walkman and the info hasn't been updated since! That app identifies a structure called Photos, Music, and Videos. One must have the (SONY) Music Center for PC (MCP) installed on the PC. This has its own structure that is like the normal music display of playlists, albums and so on of WMP, Roon, foobar, and so on. It does not match 1-1 with the Music Center. Once you get handshaking accomplished, there is a "Throw" option on the PC-based MCP that would seem to make the PC the master and the UHP-B1 the slave but at this point in my enquiry it seems one has to have both the PC and the Player running. There is also an HSEE processing option on MCP - do not know if I use this or the native DSEE processing on the UHP-H1.
What I want is the PC to push music to the UHP-H1. I want the player to recognize the PC if there is no disk in the SONY player and just play the music stream over my 155Mbs wifi. I don't want to turn on a monitor every time I try to do this. Time will tell. I can see why manufacturers are now putting apps on phones pad that control things to obviate the TV.
I am looking at this as educational - it shows that SONY is multimedia oriented with HSEE thrown in with SACD, DVDA as a bone to the audio enthusiast. I'm also getting a better feel for the structures of digital music. It is basically a server, streamer/renderer, DAC model that is a throwback to the old client/server model of computing with extra hardware thrown in. Reminds me of WNT networking.
I'm going to try to set the Music Server as the default app on the UHP-H1 when there is no disk. If not, I'll try other things to get rid of the damn flat screen. I'm also going to look for an iPhone app to control the damn UHP-H1 like OPPO and numerous other have. Maybe a "Walkman app!
Auto da Fe'.