Control point — play out to a remote speaker

With the Control point role on (the UPnP Control Point switch), network UPnP/DLNA renderers appear as output devices inside MusicBee — the same place you pick your sound card. Choose one, press Play, and MusicBee streams the audio out to that remote speaker or streamer while you keep using MusicBee's own interface as the remote.

Why you'd use it. It makes a hi-fi streamer or networked speaker behave like just another MusicBee output, with no extra software in between.

When to turn it off. Leave it off if you only ever play through this PC's own speakers.

Two things shape how this role behaves. The first is gapless playback (below). The second is Adapt the stream to each device — the same device profiles and transcoding precedence that govern the server apply here too, since the plugin is again feeding audio to a remote device. The control point also reuses MusicBee's HTTP server to feed the audio out, so the server's port and firewall rules matter here even if you never turn the Server role on.

Settings

Control	What it does
UPnP Control Point : Add network UPnP/DLNA renderers as MusicBee output devices	Master switch for the Control point role — adds network UPnP/DLNA renderers as MusicBee output devices.