Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

[DrFink]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

Hi Spoon,

yes, I know, I'm impatient - and I assume that lots of forum members are waiting for v3 Final. Because about two weeks ago you said in the "Asset UPnP v3" thread:

Update 29th September

Asset has reached Release Candidate 1 status, that is developments have frozen and all being well will go to full release in under 2 weeks.

So... can you tell us anything about the "final" release date?

DrFink

[hvaleton]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

Hi Spoon,

Things are looking better by the minute (well..), especially since I upgraded from v2.1 to v3 beta a few days ago.
I had to do that because the 2.1 release showed the artist before the title in the title whenever an album contained tracks with different artists. I mostly listen to classical music and I have tagged the tracks within a multipart work (say a Bach cantata) so that each track lists the singer / choir that actually sings in that aria / chorus in the artist tag. In release 2.1 this leads to overlong track titles such as:
"Peter Harvey, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner - BWV 168: 4 Rec (B) 'Jedoch, erschrocknes Herz, leb und verzage nicht!'"
And even the space on my iPad using Chorus DSHD is not sufficient then!
And it's silly anyway because the artist info is displayed in the artist field also, just below the track title!

Now somewhere in this forum I read a post by you that said the beta v3 release fixed this by enabling the user to disable this 'helper'.
And so it did.

But now I've run into two new problems:
1. The composer field in the Chorus DSHD no longer shows any information. I can still browse by composer etc, that all works fine. But once the music has been chosen and is playing, the composer info seems to be lost, while it used to be there in the 2.1 release. Any ideas?
(By the way I stream to a Linn DS Akurate from a Synology DS 408.)

2. Whenever an album contains tracks by different artists (which happens a lot in my collection, see above) the artist field in Chorus DS shows the Album Artist instead of the Artist. Is this someting I can fix with a setting? Regrettably, I haven't been able to find that out myself.

Thanks for all your wonderful work sofar!

Regards,

Hans Valeton

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

If you had artist:

Kanye West

but ArtistSort as: West, Kanye

Then 'Kanye West' would appear both under 'K' and 'W' trees

[Oliviander]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

Artist Sort Handling Option

Hi Spoon,
yesterday I tried to test the behaviour of the
Artist Sort Handling Option

While the entries Ignore Sort Values and Use Sort to Order Display did exactly what I expected them to do
The third entry Display in Sort and Non-Sort Locations is an enigma to me
I do not find a difference to the ''Use Sort to Order Display" behaviour and neither do I know what to expect.

I did expect the program to actually show the Sort Values
instead of the Original Tag Values in the list
(Which would be a nice Option) but that didn't occur.

Oliviander

[adydula]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

Hello,

Oppo just sent me this:

1. 24-bit LPCM should be supported. Ensure that you have FORCE LPCM set to no maximum bit/frequency (Advance Settings in Asset UPnP). Ensure that both the player and Asset UPnP are using the latest firmware builds.

2. Unfortunately the player was designed to populate these fields based on ID3 Tagging and embedded album art. We can't push data from the DLNA server. This is something that we are looking into, but we do not know if it will ever become a part of our products.

I loaded the v3 beta a week or so back in time. If I download the Asset code from the link in the beta thread I assume this means I have what Oppo is telling me should work with the 24 bit lpcm selected and the latest Oppo firmware.

Alex
(Big Grin!!, will check and try again tonight).

[adydula]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

Spoon,

Thanks for the 24 bit info, hope they support it!!

Alex

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

Hi Spoon,

Futher Suggestion
Creating the search trees I missed an option
to set filters in the tree fo the following reason:

You may want to search Classical Music for the composer
Popular music you usually wont.
So It would make sense to filter the composer search restricting it to classical music
and so hiding all the Pop composers making the list rather confusing.
And this without having to actually do another click in the selection to filter them out.

Thanks for reading my long post
and for some response in advance.

Oliviander

>1. Discnumber is not showing

There is a new Asset and Asset Control which will show these, they have yet to be released.



>Asset is using the whole tag ignoring the semicolon as a seperator in MP3 files.

Mp3 files should be separated by / for multi artists etc, if you have a custom tag then the program will not separate.


>t_klassik,3,INTEGER
>klassik,3,NVARCHAR(150)

The last one should be used as t_ are reserved for storing separately in tables internally, you might run into crashes if you set up wrong.


>Is there a way to force the server to an immediat rescan ?

Asset Configuration >> Rescan

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

AFAIK the oppo will only play 16 bit LPCM, although I am in discussions with oppo about this right now.

[adydula]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

Hello,

Been using V4 Beta for 2 weeks +, with good, stable results. I have several 24 bit cd's, that when played in the Oppo BD 83SE show up as HDCD on the Oppo display.

I selected the 24 bit LPCM support in the edit part of Asset...its not selected by default.

When I do this and restart Asset, I do not see these songs via the Oppo selection menus. Also if I try to look under advanced search under bits, 16 OR 24 I see nothing....??

If I do not select the 24 bit option in the edit part of Asset I can see and play the songs...

Is this as designed? Are the 24 bit flacs being sent to the Oppo as 24 bit transcodes??

Thanks
Alex

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

This resizing feature will drop from V3

@ServerBaboon - noted

[per]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

Using Asset 3 release canidate and Kinsky Desktop 3.3.22 gives a strange color problem. Seams like red and blue channels are switched. Linn forum claims it to be "bug in Asset's artwork scaling code".

http://forums.linn.co.uk/bb/showthread.php?tid=8406

Is this a Asset problem? Will it be corrected before v3 release?

[ServerBaboon]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

Play lists

Loaded the RC1 version also deleted the previous databases.

I am also using the latest version of Asset Control.

I have noticed that the the play list Top Albums is exhibiting strange behaviour.

When I navigate to the Play list the four albums I have played tracks from are correctly in the list but when you click on the album only the tracks that I have actually played are displayed. The Recent Albums play list is okay with all the tracks on the album being displayed.

Is my understanding of Top Albums play list correct in that it should show all the tracks of the album whether they have been played or not?

[petes]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

It is an issue with the oppo which is only reading embedded ID Tags, not the UPnP tags.

Thanks Spoon - I hope they fix it before moving onto the 9x range releases....

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

It is an issue with the oppo which is only reading embedded ID Tags, not the UPnP tags.

[petes]

Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions

Hi Spoon

I wondered if you'd got anywhere with the tag display problem with the Oppos

Thx

pete S