Asset uPNP & DLNA

[Neptuni]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

Ok, I guess you are right, will check this also on the PS3.

Thanks!

/Mikael

[Spoon-]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

>åäö.

That suggests the PlugPlayer is not decoding the utf-8 unicode data.

[Neptuni]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

Hi Spoon,

Running Asset uPNP with the music files on a network share (4000 Flac files) now.
Works well on my Ipod Touch and PlugPlayer, I don't think it should show any cover arts, streaming music is working fine!
One thing though, swedish characters are not supported ie åäö.

Will test on my PS3 later this evening, are report back.

Thanks for an nice beta software!

/Mikael

[Spoon-]

Re: Asset uPNP

Updated to R0.8 beta

Download as first message. This update allows the XBox to work, other players such as PS3 hopefully will now work.

Download as first message.

[Marek-f]

Re: Asset uPNP

Hi Spoon.

I try the new Beta, but my T+A didn't show/take it.



Marek

[dvdr]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

Just an addendum

Another idea could be, to add a full list of a specified item, whenever desired, by editing the configuration file. An example, how that could look:

Genre
Genre/Artist
Genre/Artist/Album
Genre/Album Artist
Genre/Album Artist/Album

---------- versus --------------

Genre +[title]
Genre/Artist
Genre/Artist/Album
Genre/Album Artist
Genre/Album Artist/Album

The first example: browse for example into Genre "Classical" and you will see the option to browse into albums and album artist, but no long list of titles. That way, you prevent a long list of classical titles to be loaded (good for PDAs...)
The second example: browse for example into Genre "Classical" and you will not only see the option to browse into albums or album artists, but you also already get a long list of all classical tracks to choose from.

[dvdr]

Re: Asset uPNP & DLNA

Spoon,

first of all: have a great christmas!!!!
Then a few observations from the latest Beta-Update:

- Covers work flawlessly, even from folders or filenames, that contain an "&"-character (not possible in Twonky). Great update!

- Having indexed about 8000 from my 12.000+ Songs, I ended up with 351MB+ of picture files - one file for each title. A suggestion: could the covers be indexed by "album", so you end up having just 1 cover as a placeholder for all files from a single album - or is that not possible / does that not make sense for the plans you have with Asset-UPNP? It would save space and ressources (PDA-control points need to load just 1 cover for the playlist of an album)

- Another observation from the view of a PocketPC-user (MDAII/XDAII with a WLAN-Card, not too fast CPU, not too much RAM...): On certain levels, I do sometimes get - in addition to the programmed browsing-choices ("albums", "Album Artists" etc.) - a long list of for examples titles. That list can get extremely long and take a very long time to load, sometimes, the PDA runs out of ressources. Is there a way to restrain that?


Have a wonderful Holiday Season!

[Spoon-]

Re: Asset uPNP

@Marek-f & Offwhite

Try this new release it might help.

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>would we need to edit that file somehow to match requirements of certain clients?

That is the idea, some player might expect flac, others x-flac...

We supply settings for the UPnP control points to automiatically do as you suggest (ie flac plays native, m4b is >> wav). Just need those control points updated to expect this.

[Spoon-]

Re: Asset uPNP

Another significant update:

Updated to 0.7 beta. Compatibility with Songbook and PlugPlayer (iPod Touch/iPhone) UPnP controllers has been completed.

Added album art
Added extra fields for renderer can display album, artist, etc
Tested compatibility with SongBook & Plug Player
fix: if no database asset shows tree items

Download as first message.

Upgrading from previous beta

Uninstall Asset UPnP, reboot computer, browse to:

%appdata%\dBpoweramp\uMediaLibrary\

and delete all files. Then install new beta.

It is hoped that a v1.0 release will be completed very early in the New Year. DLNA certification is also being investigated.

[Offwhite]

Re: Asset uPNP

This looks very interesting to me.

I have tried to use it with my Denon AVR-3808CI, but after starting the Asset-UPNP server, the Denon shows a new entry for it:

Asset UPnP [computername] (Not Authorized)

So I cannot connect. Is that normal at this beta stage or am I missing something? Would we at some future point expect this to work?

Have always appreciated your tools, am also looking forward to this one!

[dvdr]

Re: Asset uPNP

Spoon

again, an extremely valuable update, thanks!
Especially switching to "streaming instead of temp-converting to wav" is a great update, and the editable music-tree already now matches more of my needs than any other upnp-server has ever been able to give me until now!!!!! Thanks!

Would you mind giving a hint about AssetUPnPDefinedAudioTypes.txt ?
There's a list of file-types - would we need to edit that file somehow to match requirements of certain clients?
I was wondering, whether this was possible, and tried to find that out by myself (with no luck, yet):
Right now, I need to set "force to wav" to play for example an m4b-file - would that be editable somehow in that configuration file, so that if asset-upnp encounters a non-compliant file it would set itself to "stream to wav"?
I tried to reach that by adding an entry

.m4b
http-get:*:audio/m4b:DLNA.ORG_OP=01
audio/m4b

(That would be the official mime-type for m4b)
but it would not work without "force to wav" enabled.


Thanks again for developing this and your great support!

[Marek-f]

Re: Asset uPNP

Hi Spoon.

I try it with my Netbook at the T+A MP1250R Media Player. It dosen't works. The T+A dont't display this uPNP programm.

My T+A works with Windows MediaPlayer 11 (no Flac support) and Twonky (only demo).

Marek

[Spoon-]

Re: Asset uPNP

Big Update to 0.6 beta - download as first message

UPnP - AIFF works now
UPnP - Apple Lossless added
When Forced Wav streaming enalbed, no longer uses temp files, live streaming
Media types written to an editable file %appdata%\dBpoweramp\uMediaLibrary\AssetUPnPDefine dAudioTypes.txt
Browsing tree total rewrite, many new browsing features such as Genre >> Above 4 Star Rating, edit the tree by editing: %appdata%\dBpoweramp\uMediaLibrary\AssetUPnPDefine dBrowseTree.txt
Server Name now part of UPnP name

Upgrading from previous beta

Uninstall Asset UPnP, reboot computer, browse to:

%appdata%\dBpoweramp\uMediaLibrary\

and delete all files. Then install new beta.

Yet to do

album artwork
multiples - artists, genres, etc
xbox compatibility
ps3 compatibility
albumfolder can return albumartURI
playlists

[anders]

Re: Asset uPNP

anders can you email me please:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/email.htm

done.

anders

[bsd107]

Re: Asset uPNP

Stand alone, I will create a WHS install next week which preconfigures as a service and shares the right folders.

Can't wait to try this on my WHS and PS3!