Hi, this is similar to my recent post "Playing FLAC from NAS". I am also desperate to play audio from an external source. in my case a network NAS. Poweramp seems to do a better job at playing the music compared with other audio player apps with all the controls it provides. I just wish it could do this also. I my case all my audio is in FLAC which chews up SD card memory. Not an issue with an external hard drive. but in my case I need DLNA support. We just need to be able to access it. Sometimes i wish I was a programer!