Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

[bhelton]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

Another small item:

When using internet radio with the Directv HR's the ui is showing a 'timebar' with 0:00 - normally with streaming radio it shows "Streaming [the stream title]" with no timebar.

I *think* this might be related to the upnp class - I believe the alternate ui is triggered by object.item.audioItem.audioBroadcast and on Asset the radio stations are returning object.item.audioItem.musicTrack. Would it be a large undertaking to change upnp:class on the streaming radio items? And of course I have no idea how that kind of change would affect other devices.

Thanks
Bill

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

Update 21st July

migrated to new v2 database and album art store (v1 is removed)
UUID fix to be unqiue per machine
internally better handles database locking & updating
dropped presentation of multiple render types (for speed), original audio format given out

This update fixes the issue people were seeing where new tracks were not added to Asset.

[bhelton]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

>on my ID3v2.3 "AC/DC" files

The standard for id3v2.3 is / as a multi artist seperator

I didn't know that (obviously :D). I ended up changing both 2.3 and 2.4 by inserting a dash instead.

I did doublecheck (trust but confirm :p) and that's an even more interesting tidbit because this is the first time I've seen it enforced - and I've used TVersity, FUPPES, PS3MediaServer, SimpleCenter, WMP, PimpStreamer and Nero and I'm pretty sure they all showed 'AC/DC'.

So again - a very impressive server. With that level of attention to detail I would certainly hope in the future you would consider adding video.

Thanks
Bill

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

Sonos: We might give it another go, but so far we have not had the help we need from Sonos.

@Mikebp thanks for the report.

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

>on my ID3v2.3 "AC/DC" files

The standard for id3v2.3 is / as a multi artist seperator

[DrFink]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

Hi Spoon,

I own a Sonos system, and I just want to know
if the "option of adding an album" ist (still) on the To-Do-List of the beta (and the final) version ?

BTW, PlugPlayer doesn't work with Sonos - I was in contact with the PlugPlayer support, but they couldn't get it (they don't own a Sonos system so they couldn't adjust PlugPlayer for Sonos. We tried some things but it doesn't work).

Frank

[bhelton]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

I am a long time TVersity user and I will keep it for video and photos - but I just want to say Asset is a very nice music server and I am enjoying it thus far. I am using the beta version with DirecTV HR2x series DVR's in case you are keeping track of devices - the v1.x kept disconnecting in the middle of playback - but the beta is very stable.

My one small issue thus far is probably a known issue but I couldn't find anything - on my ID3v2.3 "AC/DC" files I am getting a directory structure like:

+Artist
++ AC

Then the items are marked up:

      <upnp:artist role="Performer">AC</upnp:artist>
      <upnp:artist role="Performer">DC</upnp:artist>
      <upnp:artist role="AlbumArtist">AC</upnp:artist>
      <upnp:artist role="AlbumArtist">DC</upnp:artist>

or sometimes:

      <upnp:artist role="Performer">AC</upnp:artist>
      <upnp:artist role="Performer">DC</upnp:artist>
      <upnp:artist role="AlbumArtist">AC/DC</upnp:artist>

My v2.4 tags look ok and are in the 'AC/DC' container:

      <upnp:artist role="Performer">AC/DC</upnp:artist>
      <upnp:artist role="AlbumArtist">AC/DC</upnp:artist>

Thanks
Bill

[Mikebp]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

Hi,

Have been testing out your latest beta - which works well - though i have found a few issues.

1. Issue with the artist 'the' option

Flac song1 of albulm1 tagged with
Artist: The name1; name2
Albulm Artist: The name1

Flac Song2 of albulm1 tagged with
Artist: The name1
Albulm Artist: The name1

With 'the artist' to 'artist, the' checked this show up when viewing via
'albulmartist' for song1 incorrectly as:

name1
The name1, the

for song2 correctly as:
name1, the

In the database song1 is stored as:

artist = name1
artist1 = name2, the
albulm_s_artist = name1
albulm_s_artist1 = The name1, the

With 'the artist' to 'artist, the' not checked this show up when viewing via 'albulmartist' correctly for both song1 and song2.

2. For either 'the artist' option checked or unchecked name2 artist does not show up when browsing by 'artist'

3. issue/question

Added M4a song with:
artist: name1; name2
albulmartist: name1

Browsing by albulmartist show only name1 as expected
Browsing by artist displays as 'name1; name2' not as separate entries.
I've read that multiple artist tags are not supported by m4a format
so is there a recommended method for tagging files of this type with multiple artists?

4. Status always shows as (none) in the Asset UPnP Configuration screen

[dvdr]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

Hi Spoon

this actually is a direct copy and paste from the AssetUPNPDefinedBrowseTree.txt in the "local-service....." folder.
What I did was: go into Asset Config and there, add a user-defined element, then (as a child) A-Z and then, as a child of that, Album.
This action seems to result in the posted output (and that also happens, when I do the A-Z with other elements). Your predefined browse tree elements do not show that behaviour. This, by the way, is not the outcome of the new beta of Asset, I already saw that with 2 previous betas.

I also have another question for you, regarding your new playlist option:
I managed to "install" it, set it to display a maximum of 100 items and did a complete, full rescan of my database. After the rescan, I got a display of different browsing options, but all of these show me 100 items, that I have not played before, that are not within recently/most/never played albums or tracks.
When I choose an album and play it, delete it from the PlugPlayers playlist, add it again or do the same with a track and play that track a dozen times, they all do not show up in the recently played, most played or whatever applicable options there are.
Can you give me any advice, what to do? Is there any way to "reset" the "counter"?

Like always: thanks in advance for your support and your continous work to provide updates and this great tool!

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

Is that copy and paste from the browse tree? because the 2nd+3rd Orchestra from the bottom have ' ' space before the last \

[dvdr]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

Question: why would adding a user-defined browse tree in Asset Configuration (Orchestra->A to Z->Album)
end in the following AssetUPNPDefinedBrowseTree.txt:

Orchestra{_no_track_list_}
Orchestra\[A to Z]{_no_track_list_}
Orchestra\[A to Z]\Orchestra
Orchestra\[A to Z]\Orchestra\Orchestra
Orchestra\[A to Z]\Orchestra\Orchestra\Orchestra
Orchestra\[A to Z]\Orchestra\Orchestra\Orchestra\Orchestra
Orchestra\[A to Z]\Orchestra\Orchestra\Orchestra\Orchestra\Orchestra
Orchestra\[A to Z]\Orchestra\Orchestra\Orchestra\Orchestra\Orchestra \Orchestra
Orchestra\[A to Z]\Orchestra\Orchestra\Orchestra\Orchestra\Orchestra \Orchestra\Album
Orchestra\Album

This happens quite frequently with other user-defined browse trees as well...

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

Playlist handling in Asset

Forgot in the previous message to say how playlists are handled:

Playlists added (dynamic: newest, most played, least played and static playlists .m3u, .m3u8 and .pls) (in Asset Configuration >> Advanced >> Edit >> Restore the browse tree to add Playlists).

Once the browse tree item 'Playlists' is added you can use the automatic generation of 'Most Played' 'Least Played' 'Newest' (all either track or album).

To Add m3u and pls files you would add another folder to the auto library (this time pointing to the playlist folder) and set the 'Contains' Line on the end to 'Playlists'

[dvdr]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

dvdr: thanks for the reports - will go onto issue sorting once Asset v2 becomes feature rich (quite soon).

My pleasure to support this great product
Here are first observations after the update:

- Server-discovery with PlugPlayer works like a charm now, whatever you changed, it helped :D
- great, that you'll have a look into the different sorting issues :smile2:
- Haven't tested the playlist feature, yet, since I first have to save my quite heavily user-configured browse tree...

"Feature rich quite soon" ??? I already thought, Asset has great features - sounds exciting !!!!!!!

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

Update 5th July

New option (off by default) to remove 'the ' from album name also
New option for Asset not to perform a Reresh (detecting changes) scan on start,
Internally caches the listings, so if back-tracking when browsing will be much faster
New Status Line (of scanning engine and how manu tracks) added to Asset Config (or Asset Settings page in WHS)
Uses a fixed UDN ID
Playlists added (dynamic: newest, most played, least played and static playlists .m3u, .m3u8 and .pls) (in Asset Configuration >> Advanced >> Edit >> Restore the browse tree to add Playlists).
If removed a folder (from meida library watched folder, but tracks are left) then tracks are not removed asset
Added option to browse by files/folders (have to add the tree item Folders & File Browse in Asset Configuration)

bug fix: if set the force to mp3 (but had not extensions forced), then would not save as mp3 selected (internet radio uses)


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dvdr: thanks for the reports - will go onto issue sorting once Asset v2 becomes feature rich (quite soon).

[Paul_A/V]

Re: Asset UPnP (DLNA) Release 2

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