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Twonky on Duo V1, 6.0.34 or 6.0.38 ?
HI Everyone, Due to some quirks I have been having with ReadyDLNA, I am about to try out Twonky. I am slightly hesitant to do so because of some of the issues I have seen reported in this foru...
I have not yet tried out Twonky, but hope to soon. Don't get me wrong, ReadyDLNA is not bad, but there is one functionality and 2 minor issues with ReadyDLNA that I am hoping Twonky addresses.
Much of it pertains to my use of my LG BD570 network attached blu-ray player as my main media device. Below are my issues
1) Issue 1: I have to be careful in generating my playlist. My BD570 does not allow me to generate play-lists, so what I have done is exported my playlist out of itunes, changes the relative paths to use Linux path separators (forward slash instead of back slash) and then make sure the line endings in the text file are correct (I don;t recall if it required dos or UNIX line endings). This last part is critical. I was stumped for a bit when I did a re scan and only one of my play-lists showed up. It looks like what happened was ReadyDLNA encountered a badly formatted .m3u file and instead of continuing past that, it stopped scanning for any more playlists. Until I corrected the line ending problem on that particular .m3u play-list file none of the other play-lists were recognized by ReadyDLNA.
2) Issue 2: Not of all my tagged MP3's Genre's seem to be recognized. The MP3's will play but for some reason a group of them that I tagged as having the Genre "80s" did not show up on my BD570. Unlike the problem above, I do not have a clue as to the source of this one. I believe the problem is on the ReadyDLNA side.
3) Functionality: My BD570 is rather limited as there is no shuffle option and can only handle categorized songs either via playlists, Genre's, Albums's artists and perhaps any other categories the DLNA server might provide. As a result I have to rely on the server to give me the flexibly in categorizing the music. I am hoping that Twonky's ability to define and provide categories on the fly will then make those categories available through DLNA to the blu-ray player.
If Twonky can provide for those three things it will meet my needs better than ReadyDLNA. However, I might be better off just getting a new Apple TV and run the iTunes server on my ReadyNAS Duo instead.
--Brad
Much of it pertains to my use of my LG BD570 network attached blu-ray player as my main media device. Below are my issues
1) Issue 1: I have to be careful in generating my playlist. My BD570 does not allow me to generate play-lists, so what I have done is exported my playlist out of itunes, changes the relative paths to use Linux path separators (forward slash instead of back slash) and then make sure the line endings in the text file are correct (I don;t recall if it required dos or UNIX line endings). This last part is critical. I was stumped for a bit when I did a re scan and only one of my play-lists showed up. It looks like what happened was ReadyDLNA encountered a badly formatted .m3u file and instead of continuing past that, it stopped scanning for any more playlists. Until I corrected the line ending problem on that particular .m3u play-list file none of the other play-lists were recognized by ReadyDLNA.
2) Issue 2: Not of all my tagged MP3's Genre's seem to be recognized. The MP3's will play but for some reason a group of them that I tagged as having the Genre "80s" did not show up on my BD570. Unlike the problem above, I do not have a clue as to the source of this one. I believe the problem is on the ReadyDLNA side.
3) Functionality: My BD570 is rather limited as there is no shuffle option and can only handle categorized songs either via playlists, Genre's, Albums's artists and perhaps any other categories the DLNA server might provide. As a result I have to rely on the server to give me the flexibly in categorizing the music. I am hoping that Twonky's ability to define and provide categories on the fly will then make those categories available through DLNA to the blu-ray player.
If Twonky can provide for those three things it will meet my needs better than ReadyDLNA. However, I might be better off just getting a new Apple TV and run the iTunes server on my ReadyNAS Duo instead.
--Brad
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