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Please make sure to use JDK17.

Yes — I'm the developer of nextCP. I started it as a standalone control point implementation with a focus on playing audio files.

As a control point, nextCP itself doesn't play the audio; it relies on a separate media renderer (player) to do that. If I understand your question correctly, you're ...

No, there is no WPL support in UMS. Please use m3u or m3u8 instead. Windows Media Play should be able to save a playlist in this format.

mik_s wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2026 9:02 am I don't use this myself so not sure of the best apps, but I remember BubbleUPnP being mentioned.

Yeah, that works well for Android devices. JPLAY is well on iPhone. As an alternative Web Frontend you can try https://sf666.github.io/nextcp2/

I am therefore asking if anyone has any pointers for systems using Docker Container and UMS for these problems?


As mentioned above, please bind to the network interface of your host system (has the same IP address as the NAS). Then the NAS will show up. Advanced configuration needs to be ...

In case each album is located inside a separate folder the artwork file has to be named "folder.jpg" or "folder.png".

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hmmm ... as much as I'd like to help I'm not active in the UMS UI development right now ... since nextcp/2 is a stand alone control point not bundled with UMS you'd probably have to address requests here : <URL url="https://github.com/sf666/nextcp2/issues">https://github ...

Hi NeonArchon,

nice to see some fellows interested in audio! I had almost the same history. I came from Serviio but was missing features I'd like to see. Therefore, I was looking for an open source project to contribute some code for getting the best audio experience.

UMS comes as an UPnP content ...

Hi there,

Nadahar is of course right. To implement a generic implementation is pretty hard, but also for the rendering part one has to figure out individual configurations.

Regarding the UPnP searching: actually the implementation is working, maybe not in all flavors. I've tested some control ...