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stampie · 06-05-2013, 22:02

(05-05-2013 22:11)simoncn Wrote:
(04-05-2013 17:43)stampie Wrote: Thanks Simon; here's a quick update on how I have got on:-
1. Album Art - I don't pretend to understand the details discussed since your response, so I can only describe the behaviour I see when using different Media Servers. With the Synology Media Server I can select a device specific profile of "Default with Original Cover" and I get the full album art with no lag at all (in displaying the art) when scrolling through album list in n-Stream. I think this is particular to how n-Stream is caching, because if I use PlugPlayer as my CP, there is a lag.

However, with Minimserver it doesn't look like the images are being cached in n-Stream at all, so I guess there must be something different in how the images are sent, received and processed by n-Stream (between the Synology and Minimserver).

Don't know if this helps anyone - happy to try out more servers/CP if that would help

Thanks for explaining this. I think you're right that there is a difference in how the images are sent, but unfortunately it's difficult for me to track down what this difference is because I don't have a Synology NAS and therefore can't try the Synology Media Server. What are the filetypes of your audio files?

I'm using FLAC files. I also tried Plex, Serviio, and Logitech Media Server on the Synology - n-Stream caches images for all of them (although some seem to reduce the image quality). Hopefully, you can take a look at them and see what their approach is.

Quote:4. all.sortValue.ignoreThe - I thought you might find the response from Naim interesting (thanks to Naim for quick response)

Naim stated that if I enabled 'UPNP compatibility mode' then 'The' would be ignored. However, this would result in the loss of some CP functionality (mainly queuing and playlist support within n-Stream), which is not acceptable to me.

I replied asking 'Why wouldn’t Naim want to provide this option outside of compatibility mode?', to which they replied 'We don’t implement the “Ignore A and The” option – that’s implemented by the UPnP server itself. There is no setting for this that can be passed over the UPnP protocol – it’s simply a function of the UPnP server and how it sorts it’s lists."

I find this response confusing to be honest - can anyone else make sense of it?

It is confusing, and it seems Naim have misunderstood your question. They seem to think you are asking for the control point to provide a custom sorting option. Can you explain to them you just want the control point to preserve any custom list sorting order that the server has already done?

I've emailed them and will let you know how they respond

Quote:5. Distinguishing singles - not tried this yet; I was wondering if I can exclude the Singles from the main Album list once I have done this? Any thoughts appreciated

If you remove the Album tag from your singles, they won't show up in the Album list.

thanks

stampie Wrote: Album art: This may not have any bearing, but just in case... nStream looks for Folder.jpg file in directory rather then embedded images in the music files. I believe this differs from the order in which Minimserver looks for Album art.

All my music files have both embedded art and folder.jpg

simoncn Wrote:
It is the server that decides whether to look for embedded art or a Folder.jpg file, not the control point. The control point wouldn't know that a Folder.jpg file exists unless the server has sent this information to the control point in an <albumArtURI> tag. Where did you find something saying that nStream looks for Folder.jpg files in preference to embedded artwork?

Are your embedded images and Folder.jpg files identical? If so, it shouldn't matter which one is used. If they are different, what is the difference?
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My embedded images are the same as the as the Folder.jpg files