Asset uPNP & DLNA

[iam]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

Damn. Although I love Sonos a lot, I wish the people at Sonos would recognize the importance to be at the forefront of audiotechnology at all times. A product like Asset uPNP is amazing and adds better functionality than Sonos' own music scrolling. I wish you will get it working. I'll be your first customer!

[Spoon-]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

The issue seems to be on Sonos' side (we have offered to emulate however Rhapsody does it, if we can find out how), if the users were to put in requests to Sonos it might get pushed up their priority list...

[iam]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

Wow Spoon. This is wonderful. I own a Sonos system with a lot more than 65k tracks and this could be the solution for that. I would be willing to even pay money for this software!

I hope you can look into the album art not displaying on Sonos and the possibility to add an album or more tracks to the playlist.

Looking very much forward to updates.

cheers

iam

[dvdr]

First feedback on 0.97

First feedack on this one: great, another step forward!

- Now works with Songbook (even without "Force to wav" in my Linn-Setup...)
- "unknown artist"-bug (mistakingly displaying ALL titles) resolved
- faster browsing
- When playing file-formats not natively supported in LINN DS (using the new file extension config-file, which is a great addition!!!!) unfortunately jumping to a playback location within a song with LinnGUI is possible BUT results in white noise
- Tracks from Multiple-disc albums not displayed in the right order (display is track1 Disc1, track1 Disc 2, track 1 Disc 3, track 2 Disc1, track 2 Disc 2....)
- Got a problem with [A-Z] sorting of composers: When trying to do that, then I do get a choice of letters, but browsing inside of "C" for example, I do get a few (not all! about 2 - 4) entries for A and B, complete C and a few for the remaining letters. Maybe my fault, don't know... Maybe, you could post proper configuration, I just copied it from other config-entries and adjusted to reflect composer

Thanks for the update and for listening to suggestions&reports!

[Mike Harris]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

Spoon

Great work. Going to have another late night now, was planning to be up early for work as well :D

Mike

[Spoon-]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

Asset UPnP updated to 0.97

Much faster when browsing 20,000 albums (x20 faster)
Changed default browse tree to exclude track listings for Genre\ Styles\

Added Original rendered format in the list of <res items
Changfed ServiceIDs for UPnP compliance

Updates systemID when changes occur in database (as required by say PS3)

{_no_list_} can be added to containers (such as Artist{_no_list_}) to stop a list of artists returning, allowing the selection of [A to Z]

Duplicates (such as 'Artist Name' and 'Artist NAME' no longer appear as 2 seperate)

Fixed Folder items (such as '[A to Z]' are now shown as ' [A to Z]' so that they remain first if the host program sorts the list

bug fix: asset not listing correctly for (unknown genre)
bug fix: was adding tracks to the library when part written (even though later would update again)
bug fix: uuid added to SID: header

Added (in \uMediaLibrary folder) AssetUPnPForceToWave.txt and AssetUPnPForceToLPCM, add an extension in one of these (for example the Sonos cannot play .mpc) so add .mpc to AssetUPnPForceToWave.txt and now it can...Type one extension per line.

[dvdr]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

download and install this codec from codec central on this website

http://codecs.dbpoweramp.com/codecs-new/dBpoweramp-Codec-FLAC.exe

[kalda01]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

I have enabled the option to force WAV convertion, however the player right away gives message " unable to load file "
could I be missing something else ?

[kalda01]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

How do I check if a codec is installed, and also what is "force streaming to LPCM"used for?

[dvdr]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

Hi
if you can browse your collection, then you should see the following: below navigation entries like "Artist" or "Album", there also is an entry for options (the configuration / the settings). Browse into that and you will find an entry called "force to wav". Click on is as if you wanted to play it like a song, that will enable this option - the entry now should change from

force to wav []
to
force to wav [x]

Then you can play any file format, that is supported by dBpoweramp, as long as you have installed the appropriate coded in dBpoweramp (codec downloads on the homepage in "codec central").

[kalda01]

Re: UPdate to the &quot;Songbook&quot; Issue

I have just installed the Asset-UPNP software on XP and I can browse my audio library via DSM-520 media player.
However I can only play MP3 but not FLAC files.
It is not clear how to enable Flac to be played as WAV.
Please advise...Thanks

[dvdr]

UPdate to the &quot;Songbook&quot; Issue

Hi Spoon

I did some more testing with Songbook/iPod Touch/Asset uPNP and found out an interesting detail: when you enable the option "Force to WAV", then songbook works (I have mostly flac-files). If you disable it again, then I run into the same problem again (besides: same trouble, when choosing LPCM, that results in a short hiss, and Sneaky locks).
Of course, I tried what happened, when I disable "force to wav" and only load a 44.1/16 uncompresse wav-file. I run into the same trouble, even wav-files cannot be played back. That even makes the whole thing stranger, since an original wav-file is not accepted, but when I choose "force to wav" and try to load that very wav-file, then it's playing...
Oh, and now, when choosing "force to wav", I do get little pops and clicks between titles, like a scratch on a vinyl disc...
Hope, that helps in identifiying the problem.

[Mike Harris]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

Spoon

I have finally answered you PM (sorry about that).

Wine is unlikely to ever run on any of the embedded devices as they are headless with low memory footprints (generally 128MB or 256MB).
Is it feasible that the software source could be ported to Linux and Mac (as it would be very close).
Once the source code was converted and compiled you would potentially need to keep multiple binary formats for the different devices. If you go to the Twonky download page (haven't had an account since I bought my Sonos) you used to be able to download about 10-15 packages for the various architectures.

Mike

[Spoon-]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

Asset runs under Windows, and perhaps Linux using Wine.

[bucuniu]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

Good morning
I am new in this thread and forum ... would need your advise ... I have bought a T+A MP1250R and want to buy a QNAP TS 109 Pro II (1TB) ... now i am wondering which media server should be be my choice ... in the AUDIO.DE forum I have learned about the beta version of ASSET UPNP ... as I already use the CD RIPPER and COVERTER from dbpower it would make sense to use the ASSET UPNP ... but apparently it is not supporting Linux ... are you going to include LINUX soon as well or can you give a recommendation on another NAS or media server?
Regards
GG