Asset uPNP & DLNA

[marty]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

Hi,

I'm also testing with PS3.

As Neptuni wrote after in/out of some menus new menus will appear.

In Music-menu of PS3 direct under Asset server I got a Compilation folder with all Album folders in and if I go in/out an album the first song will appear as folder with no title in.

Also direct under Asset server I got a No folder with all the songs from all albums in alphabetical order in.
Wave-files with interpreted tags!!!!! Thank you spoon.

I tested with 4 Artists with 5 Albums (49 songs) that are all wave-files with 44,1kHz.

I really hope you can fix the menu problems, now it's usefull for only a shuffle through all the songs.

I have also one question: I only got PCM with 48kHz out of the ps3 (optical output), why this? the wave-files are 44,1kHz

Greetings
Martin

[dvdr]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

Hi Spoon

Thanks for pointing that out! With all other Drives, that work in the MiniCubis, that configuration did not produce a crash, but one never knows... I'll try to cut that configuration and see, what happens.

[Spoon-]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

Perhaps the editing of this file is causing the crash you are seeing in Batch Ripper (mentiond in another thread)?

[dvdr]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

Hi Spoon

just to let you and others know, that my experiments with

IF genre=piano
SET subgenre=piano
IF genre=piano
SET genre=classical

don't work with batchripper. (NO complaint, just letting you know, that I failed... )

The reason seems to be:
a.) Batchripper itself cannot create a new ID-Tag value (in this case "subgenre") by itself
b.) Batchripper cannot access an empty "custom" ID-Tag value created in CD-Rippers configuration

For those, who ask "what is he doing?":
There is this option in CD-Ripper to create custom ID-Tag-values. In my experiment, I thought I'd create a custom field "subgenre", which of course I need to leave empty, since I want it not to have a fixed value, but it should be filled out for each disks individually. But: leaving the tag's value empty, the field will not show up in CD-Rippers ID-Tag-mask at the bottom of the screen (Can't fill it out, tag is not written to the file, since it is empty). So I guess, BatchRipper neither can "see" this empty tag-field nor "fill it out".

I tried another way, too: I created this custom ID-Tag "subgenre" and filled it out with the value <empty> or "not assigned" in CD-Rippers custom ID-Tag configuration. This tag will then be written to the file by CD-Ripper, but Batchripper will not be able to overwrite it.

So: there's no way to add manipulations for custom tags when using Batch-Ripper. You can only do it completely manually by using CD-Ripper with single discs and adding a new tag and its value manually in the "ID-Tag-Mask" for each disk anew. In other words: there also is no way to create something like a list of new values showing up in CD-Rippers "ID-Tag-Mask", that you quickly can assign values to. You must create/add those additional ID-Tags anew every time in CD-Ripper.

[bsd107]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

Asset UPnP v0.95
Status: PS3 - almost works, needs more time (PS3 is far from UPnP compliant if you ask me, special code needs writing just for PS3). It will be r1.5 before the PS3 is supported fully.

I really appreciate the extra focus on PS3 compatibility. This is extremely important for some of us (including me). The PS3 is a top notch videophile gadget which is why I bought one (HDMI, Blu-Ray video, excellent upscaling DVD, upsampled audio CD's, SACD playback) - compatability with a great UPnP server is the only thing it's lacking. Looking forward to "r1.5"!


(BTW, dbPoweramp Reference is an excellent product - if one of the few pieces of software that I found to be indispenable and purchased after the trial period was over. I continue to recommend it to others.)

[Neptuni]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

Hi again,

A small PS3 status report:

No communication protocol errors anymore
Meny item visible, but reports "no files"
After selecting a meny item, a new meny item appears...
After getting in and out in (A-Z) meny an artist starting with A appears.
After som meny in/out a complete album is visible with album art and song names etc.
If I choice a song it is played after a 5-10 sec delay, as a PCM stream with 44100 Hz sample rate.

So in the end I can listening on songs from one album with album art, and it sounds great!

But the meny handling is terrible and no useful at the moment...


One final remark, the server is still scanning the music library, so the behavour above is during library build process.

Thanks for your hard work!

/Mikael

[Spoon-]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

Update to 0.96

A minor issue with 0.95 was discovered (bad xml) which stopped WMP11 from connecting. All users are recommended to update to 0.96.

Download as first message.

[Spoon-]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

You can add new tag items to the database and the browse tree,

artist,5,NVARCHAR(200)

NVARCHAR(200)= this gives a hint to the database of the maximum length
,5, = tells that item can contain multiples, ie multiple genres. ,0, is no multiples.

Add as many as you like, it will not stress the server.

RE your SET question: I think the 2nd one would need to be written.

[Spoon-]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

Asset UPnP v0.95

Download as first message.

This is the last developmental release, before we release v1 of Asset.

Status: PS3 - almost works, needs more time (PS3 is far from UPnP compliant if you ask me, special code needs writing just for PS3). It will be r1.5 before the PS3 is supported fully.


Changes:

Bug fix: wrong audio type supplied in file header
LPCM audio details supplied in mime type
Genre >> Album Fix
Conductor added to Advanced Search > Conductor

[Marek-f]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

The last Version 0.9beta dosent work on my T+A.

Marek

[dvdr]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

Spoon

one of the things I love most with Asset uPNP is, that I can implement any custom requirements easily into the configuration.

In doing so, I would like to add some user-defined tag-elements to the database such as subgenre, orchestra, label etc. that I'd like to have for my personal way of indexing music.
Now, looking into the appropriate config-file, I do find a line-by-line configuration of the tag-elements. You introduce two variables, that I don't understand: one is a number (either a '0' or a '5'), the other is called navchar (numerical value). What purpose do they serve, how must I use them with custom tag-elements?
Are there any caveats in adding custom tags to the database other than I have to start from scratch, delete the current database and have to reindex?
Would I have to be careful how many elements to add to not "stress" the server-process too much?

Another question (regarding "subgenre"):
I can add a tag-value as a userdefined value in CD-Ripper. Let's create one called 'subgenre'. That way, I could later on search by either wider or more narrowed down genres to my liking by just adjusting the browsing-configuration to my needs.
Now, in Batch-Ripper, there are additional possibilities for tag-manipulation.
Can I do the following:

IF genre=piano
SET genre=classical
IF genre=piano
SET subgenre=piano

Or would I have to write it in another order

IF genre=piano
SET subgenre=piano
IF genre=piano
SET genre=classical

or can't I process "IF/SET" two times in a row in that situation? Would that "subgenre"-Tag be written anyway (I don't know, whether Batch-Ripper could write data into a value configured manually in CD-Ripper).

Thanks!

[anders]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

Should the library building work with music files that are stored on a server? I tried using both UNC paths and mounting the share on the machine running Asset.

In both cases, I can observe uMediaLibrary scan the folder hierarchy on the share, but, once that's done, the library appears to be empty.

[bhoar]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

Illustrate now have a PS3, so when not busy playing games will fix PS3 support (I have looked at it and boy does the PS3 do wierd things!).

Congrats on your new toy, er, I mean, target platform!

-brendan

[Spoon-]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

I will look into the genre and other issues,

Illustrate now have a PS3, so when not busy playing games will fix PS3 support (I have looked at it and boy does the PS3 do wierd things!).

[dvdr]

Re: Asset uPNP &amp; DLNA

Spoon,

the above posted issue with multi-disk-Albums remains with 0.9b.
Will report more asap.