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Twonky media
Can twonky be installed on the new 314 or 316 models?
I can't help taster, the most recent poster, but I'm hoping Super-Poussin checks this thread.
First, many thanks to him for all his great work, especially the Twonky add-on. I just went through a nightmare with Netgear support that underscores how important the Twonky add-on is:
We had a power outage a few days ago and somehow it corrupted the DLNA database on my NAS Pro4. I could see all folders and files in Mac Finder, but all control-point software (Linn Kinsky and Chorus) showed a weird folder structure (Library>NAS Pro>Music>Folders>Music) where under Folders I would normally see a few hundred folders organized alphabetically by Artist. When I clicked on the second Music folder I saw folders but only going part way through the F's. If I tried to browse via the All Artists sort I would see the folders but many of them contained no album folders, so no FLAC files. All this was while running on ReadyDLNA. I tried numerous rescans and reboots of the NAS but no joy.
When I finally called Netgear Support, they tried very hard to be helpful but after numerous changes and restarts, including an OS reload (a bit scary, one click away from "reset to factory defaults" which destroys all data) nothing changed. I asked if there wasn't some way to delete and rebuild the DLNA database and they said no, only way to do that would be to do a factory reset and restore all my music files from a backup. Not something I really wanted to do.
I had been using a 7.x version of the Twonky add-on and was having trouble with Briain's trees, so this is when I switched to ReadyDLNA as my streaming service. So I went back and downloaded Twonky 6.0.39 which I knew would work with Bri's trees. I installed it and did a database "delete and rebuild" from the Twonky add-on page in Frontview, enabled CIFS (which makes it easy to replace the View files with Bri's versions), and bingo. No more corrupt database.
Anyway, I think it is astounding that a free add-on from a talented community developer can easily do something that Netgear cannot.
Anyway, many thanks again to SP, I just sent another modest contribution. I would love it if you would respond to this post as I have a couple of other questions.
srobeck
First, many thanks to him for all his great work, especially the Twonky add-on. I just went through a nightmare with Netgear support that underscores how important the Twonky add-on is:
We had a power outage a few days ago and somehow it corrupted the DLNA database on my NAS Pro4. I could see all folders and files in Mac Finder, but all control-point software (Linn Kinsky and Chorus) showed a weird folder structure (Library>NAS Pro>Music>Folders>Music) where under Folders I would normally see a few hundred folders organized alphabetically by Artist. When I clicked on the second Music folder I saw folders but only going part way through the F's. If I tried to browse via the All Artists sort I would see the folders but many of them contained no album folders, so no FLAC files. All this was while running on ReadyDLNA. I tried numerous rescans and reboots of the NAS but no joy.
When I finally called Netgear Support, they tried very hard to be helpful but after numerous changes and restarts, including an OS reload (a bit scary, one click away from "reset to factory defaults" which destroys all data) nothing changed. I asked if there wasn't some way to delete and rebuild the DLNA database and they said no, only way to do that would be to do a factory reset and restore all my music files from a backup. Not something I really wanted to do.
I had been using a 7.x version of the Twonky add-on and was having trouble with Briain's trees, so this is when I switched to ReadyDLNA as my streaming service. So I went back and downloaded Twonky 6.0.39 which I knew would work with Bri's trees. I installed it and did a database "delete and rebuild" from the Twonky add-on page in Frontview, enabled CIFS (which makes it easy to replace the View files with Bri's versions), and bingo. No more corrupt database.
Anyway, I think it is astounding that a free add-on from a talented community developer can easily do something that Netgear cannot.
Anyway, many thanks again to SP, I just sent another modest contribution. I would love it if you would respond to this post as I have a couple of other questions.
srobeck
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