The idea is to try to place the ease of use side (and therefore processing) well away from the computer, making full use of any external devices to do as much of this as they can and just get the computer to concentrate on quality rendering/playback. The issue would be further compounded by using JRiver's lovely but resource hungry GUI for playback control either directly on the computer itself or indirectly via a 'true' remote control app on a remote device, rather than using a UPnP/DLNA control point. This is especially so if the music is stored on a NAS and JRiver is also being used as a the UPnP/DLNA server, which would certainly increase the amount of network resources required, let alone the computer's (by using its media library processing along side its rendering/playback duties). I'm actually surprised anyone would be using JRiver for UPnP/DLNA rendering purposes on Windows, with its relatively large footprint. So my question is this in the narrow arena of UPNP, what do experienced users find to be the best combination of PC applications that allow you to view your media library and stream local or NAS media to a digital media renderer for audiophile grade playback? So while I have setup issues with Foobar2000 I'm going to be doing my best to make it work and improve it because music naturalness matters more to me than a pretty interface and anytime a component makes me dislike music its not long for my system. However last night I finally got Foobar2000 to work for streaming and that was a bit of a surprise.Jriver had better detail in the high frequencies but a number of albums where I was shaking my head over the bad recording job now sound enjoyable and natural in the mid range with Foobar2000, irritants gone including some base doubling I'd failed to recognize with Jriver.

In the last year I've switched over to DLNA as I can get more mid range tone color solidness and clarity in vocal expression with the tube gear I have but still sticking with Jriver. I've been a staunch JRiver user for some time and when I was using asynch USB it beat Foobar2000 handily for detail and ease of use.

Win7 upnp player