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I have been experimenting with generated song drafts from my own lyrics, and I found that the best place to judge them is not the laptop speakers but the living room system, so I just drop the exported tracks into a shared folder and play them through UMS.

Before any of these drafts goes anywhere ...

Ran into the same thing when moving off WMP. Saving the playlist again as .m3u8 from Windows Media Player and dropping it into a shared folder worked fine with UMS here, and the UTF-8 version keeps accented track names intact.

BubbleUPnP has worked well for me for exactly this. Point it at UMS as the library and your TV or speaker as the renderer, then you can shuffle a whole folder or a filtered list of tracks. It keeps the queue on the phone, so it survives switching renderers too.

Nice little project. I like the idea of glancing at a long render or download from the couch without walking back to the office. For anyone trying the gerbera route instead, it is worth checking how your TV handles the stream resolution, because some older sets scale a 1440p desktop pretty badly.