Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

How are the files stored? locally on a USB or over a network share?

[munkiroy]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Hi, I'm new to raspberry pi and Asset UPnP - I discovered both last week. I installed Asset UPnP and got it running just fine and I was very impressed. I had to set up my raspberry pi from scratch again yesterday (too much mucking about) and installed this new version of Asset UPnP. Now it won't scan my library properly. It scans the tracks, goes up to ~19,000 tracks (that's as many as I have I think), and then reports 0 Songs and 1 Album - the library is effectively empty. I set up my raspberry pi in an identical manner as last week, only this time I used this new version of Asset UPnP. Any ideas why this is happening? I'm desperate to get this up and running again as it looked very promising.

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

A web based configuration page is available yes.

[simes_pep]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

ok, great.

Is the Advanced Configuration Settings window available on the Asset version for Raseberry Pi.

I like the look of the following, which are not provided out-of-the-box by Twonky. LMS had some of them.

Artist & Album Handling modes
Artist Sort Handling and Display in Sort and Non-Sort Locations
Combine Duplicate and Similar Artists
Multi-Disc Albums handling
UpStream Artwork
A to Z Selection Grouping
Hide Main View Albums

Plus I would like to try the forced transcoding to WAV for my Naim streamer.

So I'm off to get a Raseberry Pi as a dedicated UPnP server.

Many thanks,
Simon.

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. See: http://dbpoweramp.com/asset-whs-manual.html

[simes_pep]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

I am interest in running Asset UPnP on a Raspberry Pi. I am current running Twonky 6.0.38 on a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo, and although it works well and I have been able to customize the configuration for the display of AlbumArt, it is lacking in some areas. These can be fixed through customizing the configuration files directly in XML, but this really isn't a friendly configuration option.

I have all my music files with high-quality AlbumArt embedded in each file (thank you PerfectTunes), plus the AlbumArtist field is set correctly and the Compilation flag is used for Compilations. I use dBPowerAmp, PerfectTunes and mp3tag to manage all the Metadata tagging.

So before I embark on a new project to get a Pi and configure it as a dedicated UPnP server, can I ask the following questions about Asset's behaviour:

1. Does it serve high-resolution AlbumArt to the controlling end-point without any scaling? I have a Naim streamer and use the n-Stream application on an iPad, so want to have the AlbumArt in its native resolution.
2. Does the image file embedded in the ID3 header take priority over the presence of folder.jpg in the folder. I have Compilation albums with different artwork for each Artist in the same folder, but a generic folder.jpg for the 'top-level'.
3. Does it handle the AlbumArtist field?
4. Does it group Compilations together based on the Compilation field?
5. Could you provide screenshot or a list of the top level menus presented to the end-point?

Many thanks,
Simon.

[Batleys]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Reinstalled and run again as Pi.. still no progress with enabling debug.
Simon

[Batleys]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Hi Peter, indeed running as root is far from ideal, but running as user Pi was unable to save the General Settings under Pi's -/.dBpoweramp/

I will clear out and try again

PS, you might want to edit the crontab edit post at the start of this thread..
sudo crontab -e
Will edit root's crontab and run the contained apps as root, as shown, asset will run as root.

Simon

[PeterP]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Batleys,

Thanks for the feedback.

Please do not ever run Asset as root. We will add safeguards against this in the next version.

I recommend that you remove ~/.dBpoweramp entirely and start over with a clean configuration; everything should be OK as long as you do not run Asset as root.

[Batleys]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Hi Spoon - result posted - but is awaiting moderation

[Batleys]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

running as root now..
~ = /root


root@raspberrypi:~* ls -l ~/.dBpoweramp
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Dec 3 23:32 Asset-ID
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 3 23:36 DecoderCache
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 4 11:10 uMediaLibrary-v2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 3 23:32 Unreg

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

please do a:

ls -l ~/.dBpoweramp/

and post the results

[Batleys]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Ok, I have run Asset as root instead of Pi, and General Settings appear now or be retained, apart from debug.. I seem unable to activate that even under root.
Simon

[Batleys]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Ok powered up, and after I deleted the old database and rescanned, the album art returned. Good.

I also see the debug option is there.. But.. I can't seem to get the General Settings to remember their settings on Apply.. And so I can never set the debug...

The media directory and transcode settings are retained however.

Simon

[Batleys]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Spoon, great news thanks. I'll download this evening.. delighted to see folder.jpg resolved. You make no mention about the debug option.. I guess I can check that out later.
Simon