edform
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Let me begin by thanking Michael Forbes for his help in getting this pairing to work.
1. Choose suitable server hardware - I used a Shuttle Fanless Atom Quad-core PC with 4GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive. Use a utility like DiskPart to remove all partitions from the disk.
2. Download the latest X86 Daphile iso and write it to a bootable USB stick using a utility like BalenaEtcher.
3. Boot your chosen music server machine on the prepared USB stick and, when it says you can now remove the boot media, do so. Daphile will start and announce its network address on screen. From this point you no longer need a screen or keyboard/mouse.
4. Open a Browser on another machine and feed it the address http://daphile.local; you will see the standard web interface of Daphile. Go to Settings and then down to System Firmware and follow the simple instructions to install the system on the hard disk.
5. When the install is complete, restart the PC - you can use the Shutdown button in the web interface - after a delay, the web interface will come back live.
6. Got to Settings - Advanced Media Server Settings, then to plugins in the menu along the top. Scroll down the list which begins with all the plugins that are already installed and chose UpNP/DLNA Media Interface and tick its little box then, after a delay while it gathers its wits, you can click apply and restart the media server at the prompt - Michael Forbes says this plugin isn't needed to make the LSX speakers work, but I couldn't get them to work until it was loaded. Then do the same thing with the UpNP/DLNA Bridge. It may seem not to work at first, so look at the top to see if it is offering you a later version and load that. Again restart the media server at the prompt.
7. I got a lack of action at this point, so I restarted the whole PC using the Shutdown button, after which, in the bottom right-hand corner of the Audio Player window, the Player list included KEF LSX. I chose it and it worked.
8. Then I discovered that the player would play one track and apparently go on to the next track, but without sound output. Clicking that track and using the play button produced sound. This problem is a function of the UpNP/DNLA Bridge operating method. So I found the settings for the Bridge in Settings - Advanced Media Server Settings - Advanced. At the top of that screen is a pulldown with UpNP/DNLA Bridge at the very bottom. Go to that screen and change the settings as follows...
a. Remove the tick in Start the Bridge and click apply at the bottom. This stops the bridge.
b. In Select Binary choose what you need, I chose Squeeze2upnp-X86-64. Click apply which saves the settings and starts the Bridge again.
c. Stop the Bridge again as in step a.
d. Under Streaming Options go to Gapless and choose FORCE. Then click apply.
e. Stop the Bridge again and under UpNP player audio capabilities chose a suitable Max sample rate - I chose 192,000. Then click apply, check that the Bridge has started and close the settings down.
9. You should now have true gapless output to the KEF LSXs.
10. Enjoy
If anyone has any thoughts about more appropriate settings or better approaches to this problem, please chime in. There are a lot of us clucks out there with KEF LSXs who might like to use Daphile.
Ed Form
1. Choose suitable server hardware - I used a Shuttle Fanless Atom Quad-core PC with 4GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive. Use a utility like DiskPart to remove all partitions from the disk.
2. Download the latest X86 Daphile iso and write it to a bootable USB stick using a utility like BalenaEtcher.
3. Boot your chosen music server machine on the prepared USB stick and, when it says you can now remove the boot media, do so. Daphile will start and announce its network address on screen. From this point you no longer need a screen or keyboard/mouse.
4. Open a Browser on another machine and feed it the address http://daphile.local; you will see the standard web interface of Daphile. Go to Settings and then down to System Firmware and follow the simple instructions to install the system on the hard disk.
5. When the install is complete, restart the PC - you can use the Shutdown button in the web interface - after a delay, the web interface will come back live.
6. Got to Settings - Advanced Media Server Settings, then to plugins in the menu along the top. Scroll down the list which begins with all the plugins that are already installed and chose UpNP/DLNA Media Interface and tick its little box then, after a delay while it gathers its wits, you can click apply and restart the media server at the prompt - Michael Forbes says this plugin isn't needed to make the LSX speakers work, but I couldn't get them to work until it was loaded. Then do the same thing with the UpNP/DLNA Bridge. It may seem not to work at first, so look at the top to see if it is offering you a later version and load that. Again restart the media server at the prompt.
7. I got a lack of action at this point, so I restarted the whole PC using the Shutdown button, after which, in the bottom right-hand corner of the Audio Player window, the Player list included KEF LSX. I chose it and it worked.
8. Then I discovered that the player would play one track and apparently go on to the next track, but without sound output. Clicking that track and using the play button produced sound. This problem is a function of the UpNP/DNLA Bridge operating method. So I found the settings for the Bridge in Settings - Advanced Media Server Settings - Advanced. At the top of that screen is a pulldown with UpNP/DNLA Bridge at the very bottom. Go to that screen and change the settings as follows...
a. Remove the tick in Start the Bridge and click apply at the bottom. This stops the bridge.
b. In Select Binary choose what you need, I chose Squeeze2upnp-X86-64. Click apply which saves the settings and starts the Bridge again.
c. Stop the Bridge again as in step a.
d. Under Streaming Options go to Gapless and choose FORCE. Then click apply.
e. Stop the Bridge again and under UpNP player audio capabilities chose a suitable Max sample rate - I chose 192,000. Then click apply, check that the Bridge has started and close the settings down.
9. You should now have true gapless output to the KEF LSXs.
10. Enjoy
If anyone has any thoughts about more appropriate settings or better approaches to this problem, please chime in. There are a lot of us clucks out there with KEF LSXs who might like to use Daphile.
Ed Form