cant stream to Uniti

[pete.g]

Hi Guys

Got my NaimUniti at last this week - listening to AVRO Klassiek Film on iradio at the minute and it sounds great.

I do have a problem though. I have not been able to stream anything from my Mac to the Uniti. i have installed eyeconnect as mentioned elsewhere on these pages and it sees the Uniti all right but when i select upnp on the Uniti it searches but can find no servers.

Any ideas you might have would be appreciated

Cheers

 

[John Duncan]

Can you describe your setup pete? As in where the router is, whether your network is wired or wireless, what you have connected to it etc etc...

 

[pete.g]

Ok. getting freaked out now.

the uniti, macbook and router are all in the same room. the network is wireless. rebooted the uniti and the router. i disconnected the uniti from the network and when i tried to reconnect it wont accept my password. On the last try, i entered the wrong password and it connected!!! I am back listening to internet radio. still wont connect to my macbook over upnp though. when i open eyeconnect on the laptop it has the uniti listed along with the correct IP address. Still says "no servers" on the uniti when i select pc on the remote.

I imagine i am making a simple error somewhere but just cant figure where.

 

[pete.g]

Update

I uninstalled and reinstalled eyeconnect (version 1.6.7) and the uniti has picked up my library/server.

according to the display, the track i selected is playing (stream info 41.1 KHz WAV) but no sound at all

I am getting closer!

 

[John Duncan]

Right, two things:

- are you able to try the network wired?
- can you also try another server (Twonky download for mac is here, for example, and see if that works better?

 

[pete.g]

thanks JD

I have had some success. i can play some files but only AAC and not WAV. basically any music i bought through itunes will play but not anything i ripped in apple lossless?

(obviously no need to try the network wired as it is playing some files)

 

[John Duncan]

The Uniti won't play apple lossless streamed from a UPnP server, only from an iPod plugged into the USB slot. Therefore, you need to transcode it to WAV - go into Eyeconnect in System Preferences and stop it, click on 'Plug ins', and make sure the 'Audio to WAV/LPCM Transcoding Service' is enabled, then start the server again. Eyeconnect will then stream WAV instead of ALAC to the Uniti, and it should play.

 

[John Duncan]

Any luck pete.g?

 

[pete.g]

Hi JD

I have followed your instructions for eyeconnect and restarted it but no change. I am still only getting sound on AAC files. When i play a WAV file the uniti looks like it is playing it (elapsed time etc) but still no sound?

BTW thanks for all your help with this.

 

[John Duncan]

No problem, but I'm now a bit stuck. What happens if you convert a WAV file to apple lossless and try to stream it through Eyeconnect? I'm trying to work out whether this is a bandwidth problem or not...

 

[Anonymous]

Would a media server like isedora not solve your problems? You can download a trial that will work for 60mins to test it.

It will stream all formats the Uniti supports, and transcode those it doesnt into LPCM.

http://www.isedora.com/

 

[pete.g]

Guys

thanks for your help with this but i have not been able to spend any time on it this week (a bit of snow and the whole world falls to pieces!) JD i will follow your suggestion to see if its a bandwidth issue. let u know

cheers