![]() In my case, I have several directories (artists, comps, classical, new) and in each, I have a structure like the below: Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean by the above that doesn't sound familiar to me and in the past, I've used Twonky wih my music collection comprising 40,000 FLAC files (over 3000 albums) and it worked just as expected (I'm using a Linn DS as my music player, and Kinsky on an iPad as my control point). I could put 6000+ 6-10Mb files in a single directory but that would also be rather archaic wouldn't it?. ![]() I have not found a upnp server software (Windows) that addresses multiple directories at once yet. The only reason to upgrade Twonky would be that I have to address by hand every single directory that I made for each CD that I ripped of my 300+ CD jazz collection. Placing new HD's would be rather like putting the cart before the horse, I guess. My 409 with 4x750GB (raid 5, 2TB effective) is full. Twonky streams "plug and play", and VLC certainly is not p&p.Īnd guys, while we're at it. I use VLC player (portable) every day but I cannot get it to stream on my local network. My streaming software must be upnp because of the internet radio's/usb players I use in my house/soho. ![]() ![]() The only reason to upgrade Twonky would be that I have to address by hand every single directory that I made for each CD that I ripped of my 300+ CD jazz collection. The version in my TS 409 Pro shows rather archaic/minimalistic. I must stress that doing anything mentioned above is only for the seasoned experimenters! Do bear in mind that when doing the above Twonky 6 tricks I ran several Qnap's (all mirrors of each other) so I just didn't care what happened when I experimented with things like that I could always just rebuild it if I was too lazy to undo a disaster (though I never had to resort to that)! I'd really not recommend such clavier behaviour if it's your main (and only) media server or you might end up having to going to the pictures, listening to the radio or drinking heavily to morn the loss of your entertainment system.īrian, I appreciate your warning, and it might well serve others. If you have entered a key, this will still show up as it is stored in a file elsewhere on the Qnap (the Twonky ini file). With the QPKG version you're pretty safe as if it all goes wrong you can just uninstall the QPKG (which deletes these files and directories) and reinstall the QPKG to take it back to the Qnap version. Of course, there's absolutely no guarantee that they won't change another file (or files) to suit changes made in the twonkymediaserver file, so it's a bit of a try it and see what happens sort of thing (unless you just overwrite the entire package with files and directories unpacked from the stock release). That said, most of the media receiver entries will be unchanged and thus you could just update the files pertaining to the media players on your network. With Twonky 6, the usual ones were the clients.db and twonkymediaserver files, but Twonky 7 is a bit different in that they have a bunch of XML files for the media receivers (as opposed to a single clients.db file) so that might be a little more of a fiddle. Of course, it really depends on exactly what they have changed in each minor release. If using the QPKG installation, you can often update it (for minor version incriments) by first stopping it, then simply changing the twonkymediaserver file (x86 Linux build for Intel Qnap and Kirkwood build for ARM Qnap) as that's where many of the useful changes are made (I used to do that to move between versions of Twonky 6 when testing things) but doing that also means you have to buy a Twonky key to unlock it (I had been given several spare keys from the days when I used to test things, so I didn't mind that it required one).
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