I am running Mezzmo on a Windows 7 PC as a media server, located in my home office - runs great, excellent software!
I have some DLNA devices in my basement music room, capable of operating as media player or media renderer. I can pull media streams to these devices (in player mode) from Mezzmo over ethernet but this requires me to scroll through hundereds of albums to find the one I want, as the devices lack good search functionality. And it's not convenient to go up to the office to push a stream down from the main Mezzmo server PC.
I can get good search functionality by using an iPhone as a media controller (DMC), using an app like PlugPlayer, with phone connected to the home network by wifi in the music room. This lets me push a stream to the DLNA device (in renderer mode). I know I could also use a tablet with similar Android app. But I want to use a spare laptop PC to do this job. What software can I run on the Windows 7 laptop to turn it into a DMC? If possible, I'd like something as simple as PlugPlayer, rather than having to install and use something with a lot of redundant functionality, like Windows Media Player.
Can anyone suggest a PC-based DMC 'app'? Or, is there any way I can run a second copy of Mezzmo on the laptop to fulfil just this DMC role?
Rgds,
Emkay
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