Kinsky, MinimServer, and QNAP

[gnomus]

(18-09-2014 19:27)simoncn Wrote:  

(18-09-2014 19:09)gnomus Wrote:  I generally shut down Apps when I stop using them, so I believe that I would normally be restarting Kinsky from scratch. When I do so it can see MinimServer [Synology], but not MinimServer [QNAP]. Why should Kinsky not be able to see the QNAP library if I start from scratch?

I'll take more notice over the next few days to confirm what I have just said.

In your earlier post, you said you get a Kinsky error message about MinimServer[QNAP] in your step 1). Now you seem to be saying Kinsky doesn't show MinimServer[QNAP] in its list.

There is a significant difference between these. An error message means Kinsky knows about MinimServer[QNAP], has tried to communicate with it and this communication has failed. If MinimServer[QNAP] is missing from the Kinsky list (with no error message), this means Kinsky doesn't know about MinimServer[QNAP] because of some issue with the UPnP discovery protocol.

OK - I have been unable to reproduce the error message tonight. However, I have discovered that, as you suspected, Kinsky is losing the QNAP whilst it is still active. If I shut Kinsky down and then relaunch, it will often find the QNAP. However, it will not find it every time. (This might be why I thought it was losing it at relaunch.)

I will keep trying to reproduce the error message. I don't recall that it mentioned the QNAP specifically. I will almost certainly have had tracks from the QNAP in the playlist - I don't know if that would make any difference.