Understanding the Minimstreatmer Fundamentals

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(12-11-2014 09:02)Minderbinder Wrote:  Was looking from a way to use my NAS to provide music to the household, and assume I could do this with MinimServer. With this I can so far provide music from my Syno DS's Music directory, but haven't figured out how to allow internet streams. I assume this is a good way to control which internet streams my children can access.

I have MinimWatch and MinimStreamer running, and have copied the linn radio example, created the .m3u file, placed it in the Music directory and rescanned.

I am unfamiliar with a few of the terms in the guide - for instance, I don't think I have a "controller", but I'm not sure. I also assume the music player is something like itunes or Windows Media Player residing on any of my network's computers. From WMP, I see the "linn" playlist, but when I try to play it WMP says, "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file." I have almost no familiarity with transcoding, so I don't know what if anything I am supposed to put in that field. Sorry to be so ignorant, but any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.

Welcome to the MinimStreamer forum!

I hadn't thought of using MinimStreamer to limit access to specific radio stations. This seems like a good idea!

I have been able to play the Linn Radio stream from MinimStreamer using WMP. Are you using the stream "[Linn] Linn Radio Classical" or the stream "Linn Radio Classical"? The former should be working.