Old Blu Ray Player as DLNA renderer for music?

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  1. AllanMarcus

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    I don't have any old BluRay players, but they come up for free or cheap often. I know I could set up a Pi as a renderer (actually, I have), but was just curious if
    • it's possible to use a BD player as a renderer
    • it's any better than a pi (with a cheap coax out "hat" from aliexpress)
    • if I can just set up the BD player and forget it and have it just sit on the network as a music renderer
    My plan would be to use it as a renderer, coax out to a Bifrost, so the DAC in the BD player would not be used.

    Does anyone use a BD player as a DLNA renderer, possibly with JRiver, and if you do, can you please answer the above three questions. Your help is appreciated.
     
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    I think the real question is how many BD Players support DLNA/UPnP? If so, do they support gapless?
     
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    I think most support Dlna, but I don’t know about gapless.
     

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