Netgear Readynas Ultra 2 plus

[ClausDK]

David, you're right, counter-intuitive is a better word for it.In Danish there is hardly a difference between "seems (or feels) illogical" and counter-intuitive. In fact, I don't even think we have a word for counter-intuitive, except for illogical. :-)

Anyway, I have news on my tags and streaming problems, good news (sort of).

When I got home from the office I just tried to see if I could use the Naim app and put on some music, while downloading Foobar to convert the wav files to flac. I chose this not least because I could also edit metadata/tags with it. I started editing tags some weeks ago with MP3tag editor, however that was very, very slow when editing album artist info on more than 1-3 songs at a time. 10 minutes or so. After installing Minimserver and switching to Readynas it got even slower, much slower, so it now takes 20 minutes or more to change tags on 2 songs!!

First, the Naim app is working perfectly again, meaning that it stays connected to the streamer/server and if shut down and re-opened it finds the streamer instantly again. The problems I had after first install of Minimserver seem to be history, so first problem is solved (or at least it's gone).

Next, I checked if the albums/songs I could see in the app in fact were the mp3 files only, or if they were a mix of mp3 and wav files. It turned out to be a mix, so it was not a "simple" question of mp3 = working, wav = not working. Rather it seemed like some mp3 files were missing (or not tagged correctly) as well.

I then started converting some wav files to flac to see what would happen. The flacs were shown in the app, but listed alphabetically without track nr info. In Foobar's property info I could see that the wav files I had converted didn't have a track nr. So before continuing converting to flac, I added the track nr. to the properties of the wav files, and then when converting they were included in the flac file info as well.

I then updated track number info on all the songs in an album folder and converted the files to flac. And did a "rescan" in Minimwatch. Surprise!! Suddenly I could see not just the new flac files with track nr. but also the wav files I had updated with track nr. info.

So, apart from now being able to control the player with the app again, it also seems as if I "simply" have to open all the "untagged" files in Foobar and set track nr. info, then the songs will reappear in the app as before. And I can see Danish, Swedish and German characters... :-D

My conclusion: simply converting to flac is not a solution since I then need to add track nr. info afterwards. And if I add track nr. before converting, then I don't need to convert at all...!
As far as I can tell this is the situation.

What's left then is to open all "untagged" music files in Foobar, add track nr. and run a Minimwatch Rescan. With some 5-6.000 files to edit, one by one, this will take some more than just a few hours.

What's a bit strange is that quite a few wav files were copied with correct track nr. info from start. Could be 5-10% (closer to 5 I'd guess).

I'll post an update some days from now, to confirm that everything is fine.

Thank you very much to both of you for your kind, patient and very quick help.

Claus