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Need help on buying a streamer / network player

Please help me to pick the right streamer.

I am currently streaming wirelessly from a NAS to a Windows laptop, and play using Foobar2000, digital (USB) out to a DAC.  There are some intermittent "interruptions" while playing.  I think that is caused by Foobar because the computer is fairly new, a powerful one and not running anything.  Also, I can't setup Foobar such that I can create smart playlist based on my rating, part of the reason is I play FLAC files with separate cue sheets.  Thirdly, I can free up the laptop for somethign else.  So, I am thinking to get a streamer, but I have some specific requirements:

1) There is no ethernet cable.  So, need to discover and stream music from the NAS wirelessly, and I can control it using my phone or tablet wirelessly.  If I buy a server and move all my music, than I don't need wireless for streaming, but I still need wireless to control it.
2) Can handle cue sheets.  I can split them up by track, but then it is (a lot of) additional work.  But if I can't find one, this may be one of the requirement to be dropped.
3) When I compare Foobar to Groove, I like Foobar better.  So, I hope the player in the streamer sound as good, if not better, than Foobar.
4) Stable.  No intermittent interruptions or drop out.  I read some comment for the Bluesound Note 2i that it sometimes failed to connect to NAS wirelessly.  Same thing happened on my Windows computer, sometimes the NAS drive disappear.  
5) <$1000 
6) I don't need a DAC, but it seems most of them has it.
7) I don't need multi room support

I am surprised many doesn't support wireless.  I gather the list below, and would like any feedback on them about stability.

1) Yamaha WXC-50
2) Bluesound Note 2i 
3) Primare NP5 Prisma
4) DenonDNP-800NE
5) find another software on the computer

Especially, I am interested to know CUE support, stability, and sound quality.
I know the Bluesound is widely recommended, but I read the audioscience testing saying that the Toslink is having some problem.  It also doesn't support CUE sheets.

Buying a streamer or network player is much harder than I thought.  =(
gte357s
gelle
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@gte357s If your a Roon user, just buy a Nucleus and call it a day. 
gte357s OP
281 posts
 
@gelle i think $700 is too expensive.  I only need a simple player that allows me to browse songs, set up playlist, and play/stop/pause/skip .... etc.
gte357s OP
281 posts
 
Thanks for all the reply.  I decided to give the used Naim Unitiserve a try.  For similar amount of money, I can buy a Bluesound Vault 2.  The Vault 2 is a 3-year newer product than the Naim, but I hope the Naim has better quality parts and produce better sound.  However, it is the SSD version with only 16 GB of internal memory.  I guess this is because SSD is still new and expensive at that time (7 years ago).  I will try to connect to my NAS.  If that doesn’t work, it can take USB drives as input.  My library is not big, only 76GB.  I can buy a 1 TB drive and attached to it.  In fact, I can attach USB drive for Bluesound Node 2i, but maybe because it is quite new, the used price is not much cheaper than this Naim.  I think it is worthwhile to pay more just to get the CD ripper.

Anyway, hopefully everything works.  Once again thanks for sharing the knowledge and experience.  I will update back on how it goes.
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