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Ready DLNA not keeping Folder structure
Hi all,
I have just purchased an RNDU2000 Ready NAS Ultra 2.
I have trying to stream my media to my PS3 and i have an issue with folder structure.
I have my media located on the Media Share and they are sepearted into 4 folders within the share:
\Media\Movies
\Media\TV
\Media\Music
\Media\Pictures
I have enabled DLNA and setup the 4 folders to be streamed. When i access the media server on my PS3, the folder structure changes to:
Videos
Music
Pictures
The issue is when you open Videos, it has lost the Movies and TV folder and has lumped all my videos together.
This unacceptable as I have alot of videos and they are all completely out of order.
I have called Netgear support and they advised that this is how the DLNA server is designed to work. I was hoping that this wasn't the case and that someone has managed to get this to work by retaining their folder structure.
Essentially I would like the media server to present to my PS3:
Videos -> All folders -> TV or Movies -> then the content
I have just purchased an RNDU2000 Ready NAS Ultra 2.
I have trying to stream my media to my PS3 and i have an issue with folder structure.
I have my media located on the Media Share and they are sepearted into 4 folders within the share:
\Media\Movies
\Media\TV
\Media\Music
\Media\Pictures
I have enabled DLNA and setup the 4 folders to be streamed. When i access the media server on my PS3, the folder structure changes to:
Videos
Music
Pictures
The issue is when you open Videos, it has lost the Movies and TV folder and has lumped all my videos together.
This unacceptable as I have alot of videos and they are all completely out of order.
I have called Netgear support and they advised that this is how the DLNA server is designed to work. I was hoping that this wasn't the case and that someone has managed to get this to work by retaining their folder structure.
Essentially I would like the media server to present to my PS3:
Videos -> All folders -> TV or Movies -> then the content
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kurtzr wrote: they advised that this is how the DLNA server is designed to work.
upnp/dlna is designed to abstract the file system.I was hoping that this wasn't the case and that someone has managed to get this to work by retaining their folder structure.
In most upnp/dlna clients, there is a 'browser folders' tree which partially exposes the file system, however this is usually a top level showing all folders, not categorized by type.
for example;
Essentially I would like the media server to present to my PS3:
Videos -> All folders -> TV or Movies -> then the content
edit;
actually it looks like it may be the client, this is mediamonkey 4's upnp client and appears to do what you desire.
- Hi,
I have used other media servers with my PS3 and they have retained the folder structure. The Reday NAS is presenting the folder structure to the PS3, so its the device.
What version of the DLNA service are you running?
I installed the latest firmware for the ready NAS Ultra and I'm not sure if also updated the DLNA service? - I have just taken a closer look at your image and this is exactly what is happening on my NAS
The DLNA server is presenting folders in the same fashion.
Below Video -> folders
There should actually site Movies and TV, but its only showing all the content together.
Essentially i have split my Movies and TV programs apart.
As you can see in the above images Black Swan is lumped in with the TV series.
This may be how TeknoJnky has setup his NAS, but i have split these out. - shows v1.0.21 in frontview
i do have my movies and tvs in separate folders, so it is lumping them together.
so I suppose as already advised by netgear, this is as designed and not really anything we can do about it.
fwiw, upnp/dlna is really a crappy standard/protocol, if at all possible you should simply access your media via cifs/smb. - I have managed to find the fix for this, its extremely simple and I feel like an idiot for not think of this earlier.
I simply shared the root of the media share
\Media
This has allowed to keep my folder structure for Movies and TV.
Thanks for all your help. - nice catch
kurtzr wrote: I have managed to find the fix for this, its extremely simple and I feel like an idiot for not think of this earlier.
I simply shared the root of the media share
\Media
This has allowed to keep my folder structure for Movies and TV.
Thanks for all your help.
Hello! hope someone is still looking at this thread. I did the same added the media folders as shared resources and then specify to look for the media type of each folder. front view said scanning for media but my PS3 still does not display any media. Can I used other add on different to ReadyDLNA to stream or share to the ps3? Or make the ps3 look a network drive?
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