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Hello everyone.

I'm looking to use my N900 as a UPnP Renderer device, but I cannot find anything on the topic. I have Rygel installed, but it seems to be missing the renderer component (or it's not working). Or at least the foobar2000 UPnP plugin on my laptop isn't picking it up (while on the other hand it sees N900 as a server and allows me to browse through it)

Any ideas?

Bit of background: since I'm not using it as my regular phone anymore - and after all it's such a smart little Linux box - I decided not to retire it and instead use it as a rtorrent server / webserver / mediaserver (audio). I keep it continuously plugged in, got rtorrent and lighttpd on. Audio output is directed to my stereo, and i can play the music I've got on the phone and anything the default Media Player picks up on the network via UPnP.

On the other hand, I'm on my laptop around the house most of the time, and I don't really feel like visiting the phone every time I wanna change tracks or change the playlist. I know from experience that the UPnP plugin on my laptop media player (foobar2000) can stream to another UPnP device that exposes itself as a renderer, so I would like to use that and control the music that's going into the phone. As I was saying, I tried rygel, since I knew the gnome version has a renderer component, but it doesn't seem to work on the N900.