Working great with PS3 but not Xbox or WMP

[simoncn]

(21-12-2012 19:02)postformac Wrote:  Hi,

I am running Minimserver 0.63 on a Qnap TS412, having followed your very helpful and informative guide - thanks for that! I am also running Minimwatch on a Win7 pc. Also on the network (all wired) I have an Xbox 360 and PS3.

The PS3 works perfectly - I can see Minimserver, all of my albums and artists are listed and I can stream any of my music correctly. The Win7 pc can see Minimserver, but WMP only lists a very small selection of the artists / albums, and the ones that are listed have all of the tracks repeated multiple times (15 times in some albums). The Xbox 360 can't see Minimserver at all, so doesn't list anything, although it does find Twonky on the same QNAP.

Any ideas? Thanks.

There's a note in this section about the problem with WMP. This is caused by the design of WMP, which attempts to preload the entire browse tree from the server. This is OK for a simple hierarchical browse tree, but it doesn't work with MinimServer because the browse tree contains multiple browse paths that lead to the same audio file. Eventually WMP runs out of resources and dies.

I'd be interested in investigating the Xbox 360 issue. As a start, please can you do the following:

1) Start MinimServer
2) From the minim icon, select 'Show log'
3) In the log window, change the logging level to Trace
4) Leave the log window open
5) Start the Xbox 360 and search for MinimServer
6) You should see some trace messages appear in the log window
7) Press 'Save as' to save the log file
8) Change the logging level back to Info
9) Zip the log file and attach it to a post here

If you don't see any messages in step 6, it would be necessary to run a Wireshark trace to find out what's happening.