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ReadyDLNA Select Content folders in OS6
With Radiator 4.2.x, I could enable ReadyDLNA and then choose folders from within my shares for the various content types.
For example on my legacy Pro, I created a share named 'Media' having sub-folders named 'Pictures', 'Videos' and 'Music'. I then enabled the ReadyDLNA service and configure it as follows:
Share 'Media' | Folder '/Music' | Content Type 'Music'
Share 'Media' | Folder '/Videos' | Content Type 'Videos'
Share 'Media' | Folder '/Pictures' | Content Type 'Pictures'
In ReadyNAS OS6, it appears that I'm forced to establish a seperate share for each content type instead of a selecting content folders from within shares.
Am I missing or not understanding something in OS6. Personally, I don't want to create seperate shares for each content type. The ability to choose and add folders from within a share provides greater flexibility and options. Is there a way to achive throught the OS6 menus?
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TWilson wrote:
In ReadyNAS OS6, it appears that I'm forced to establish a seperate share for each content type instead of a selecting content folders from within shares.
Am I missing or not understanding something in OS6. Personally, I don't want to create seperate shares for each content type. The ability to choose and add folders from within a share provides greater flexibility and options. Is there a way to achive throught the OS6 menus?
Your current options with ReadyDLNA are to put everything in a single share, and choose "all" for the root content type. The main disadvantage there is that cover art would be treated as pictures. Or use dedicated shares for each content type.
You don't have to use ReadyDLNA though - Plex is also available, and it does give you the ability to create libraries for each folder in the share.
I thought that was going to be the case. I'd like to see that capability return to ReadyDLNA in OS6. Shouldn't have to create multiple shares to do this and selecting all is not an ideal alternative. I also kept some media content that I wanted to exclude in my Media share outside of the folders that I configured ReadyDLNA to use. ReadyDLNA configration in OS6 appears to have taken a step backwards from that of Raidiator 4.2.x.
Looks like I'll be installing and using Plex instead.
I concur with TWilson on this. OS6 is a pain in not being able to control at a folder level what is streamed. I have FLAC and mp3 versions of my music collection in separate folders in a share called media. When I was using my NV+ I could configure ReadyDLNA to only stream the FLAC version of the files. However, with OS6 both versions are streamed, showing up in my media players as duplicates. Yes, I could create separate shares to overcome this but that does not fit my media management strategy and besides, Netgear used to provide this useful capability and saw fit to remove it without good reason.
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