Category: Setup

SETUP PLEX MEDIA SERVER: Plex is a media server application that organises video, music and photos from personal media libraries and streams them to media servers, smart TVs, streaming boxes and mobile devices that have compliant player apps. Plex can also be setup as a DLNA server. You can control Plex on a Windows PC, […]

SETUP SONOS INTEGRATION: Install and setup this application and your Antipodes Music Server will appear within your SONOS application as a music source. This means you can use your Antipodes music server to rip and store music, play to a high quality DAC in your stereo system, and have the same music available for playback […]

SETUP SPOTIFY CONNECT: With Spotify Connect, you can use your Spotify app  on PC, smart phone or table to play Spotify music through your Antipodes. You must have a Spotify Premium subscription. How to set up Spotify Connect on the Antipodes In the Antipodes GUI go to Settings/Spotify Connect, enter a Player Name and then […]

SETUP SHAIRPORT: Shairport is an Apple Airport Emulator. This makes the Antipodes work as if it was an Apple Airport device. So you can play music that is on your Apple Airplay device across your network to the Antipodes. Note: because Apple may change the Airplay specification Antipodes Audio cannot guarantee continued reliability of the […]

SETUP MPD DLNA RENDERER: If you wish to use a DLNA/UPnP solution and want an Antipodes to perform the DLNA renderer function then you can use MPD. Setup the renderer in the Antipodes Control Panel of an Antipodes that is connected via USB to your DAC: Select the menu item ‘Settings’ Click on the ‘MPD’ […]

SETUP BUBBLEUPnP: BubbleUPnP Server is a UPnP server application enabling you to: Have secure Internet access to your UPnP/DLNA server content, with BubbleUPnP on a tablet and foobar2000 on a Windows device. Create OpenHome media renderers from any UPnP AV renderer (provides on-device playlist, and multiple Control Point access to the same renderer) Address some […]

SETUP MINIMSERVER: MinimServer is a UPnP/DLNA AV server that enables the music library on an Antipodes server to be accessed by DLNA-capable devices. MinimServer is not installed on Antipodes servers by default. Therefore you need to install it before you can use it. At the Antipodes Control Panel, select the ‘Apps’ menu item, click on […]

SETUP SQUEEZEBOX DLNA SERVER: You can setup an Antipodes music server as a DLNA Server a number of ways: Use Minimserver Use MiniDLNA Use PLEX But in many cases we find the simplest solution and with the widest compatibility is achieved by installing one plug-in to Squeezebox server to enable it to be a DLNA […]

SETUP THE MPD SOLUTION: MPD can be used as a complete solution, able to perform the server and renderer function with a single app. This contrasts with the more common requirement to have a separate server app and separate renderer app. When using MPD as a complete solution, the first step is to setup the […]

SETUP SQUEEZEBOX WITH SQUEEZELITE: Setup the renderer in the Antipodes Control Panel of an Antipodes that is connected via USB to your DAC: Select the ‘Settings’ menu item Click on the ‘Squeezelite’ icon – this will open the screen shown below Select the correct output driver Select how your DAC likes to receive DSD files […]

SETUP HQPLAYER WITH HQPLAYER NAA: The use of HQPlayer Server Embedded is an interesting new option for Antipodes servers. This article is about using HQPlayer Server on a CX and HQPlayer NAA on an EX, using the CX+EX Solution. This page is under construction while we test it, and will show step by step instruction […]

SETUP HQPLAYER LOCAL: The use of HQPlayer Server Embedded is an interesting new option for Antipodes servers. This page is under construction while we fully test it and will outline how you can setup HQPlayer Server Embedded, and use it as both the server app and the renderer app on a single Antipodes music server.

SETUP ROON SERVER WITH HQPLAYER: You can use Roon to play to HQPlayer Server. You will get a different audio performance than Roon Ready and opinions are likely to differ on what is preferred. You can use this playback solution on a single Antipodes, or with a CX+EX you can use Roon Server on the […]

SETUP ROON SERVER WITH SQUEEZELITE: You can use Roon to play to Squeezelite (Squeezebox) end-points on your network. To use Squeezelite on an Antipodes open the Antipodes Control Panel: Select the ‘Settings’ menu item Click on the ‘Squeezelite’ icon – this will open the screen shown below Select the correct output driver Select how your […]

SETUP ROON WITH ROON READY: You can play from Roon Server to Roon Ready DACs or Renderers on your network. But while Roon Ready is designed to be installed on a separate device from the Roon Server app, you can enable Roon Ready on the same Antipodes device that you run Roon Server on. The […]

SETUP ROON LOCAL PLAYBACK: The simplest way to play music with Roon Server, is to play ‘Local’. In the Antipodes Control Panel, select the Settings Menu, and then click on the Roon Server icon. Click to enable local playback and then on ‘Save changes’. Roon Server will enable all compatible outputs on the Antipodes. Setting […]

PLAY FROM THE MUSIC LIBRARY: Historically, the primary purpose of each of the playback applications available for you to use on an Antipodes music server, is to play music in the Antipodes music library You can assemble a single seamless library, incorporating files you have ripped, copied or downloaded to the Antipodes, files on external […]

REMOTE CONTROL OF MUSIC PLAYBACK: You don’t need to connect a screen, mouse or keyboard to your Antipodes music server. You run the Antipodes ‘headless’ in your music system, like any other stereo component, not in a back room. To tell the server what to play, you can use any desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone. […]

BACKUP TO A USB DISK: We strongly recommend that you make backups of your music library. This application provides you with a very simple way to make incremental backup copies of your music files. ‘Incremental’ means that if you add new music the Storage Backup app will only copy the new files. The backup is […]