Total Newbie - Apologies in Advance

[simoncn]

(11-04-2014 18:08)gnomus Wrote:  I have just downloaded and installed MinimServer on my Synology NAS. The instructions on the website were straightforward, and I thank whoever posted them.

I know very little about this streaming business, having been doing it for only a couple of weeks. I am a small way in to ripping my collection of (~3000 CDs). It is a painful process.

I am trialling MinimServer with Kinsky (and finding it much much better than Twonky - maybe I set up Twonky wrong).

My Sonos interface allows me to update the music library at the click of a few buttons or it does it at 2 am. My stupid newbie question for today is: How do I update the library (for example, when I rip in a load of new CDs) using the Kinsky/MinimServer set up. I am aware that there is a "rescan library button" within the MinimServer interface on my NAS. Is there a way of setting this to auto-rescan once a day or every x hours? Apologies if this question is the stupidest yet asked on this forum.

Welcome to the MinimServer forum! There is no need to apologise, and your question is not stupid.

At present, you need to use the Rescan selection from the MinimWatch pop-up menu to make MinimServer find additions or changes to your library. Alternatively, there is a third-party package (for Synology only) that will do this automatically whenever you make any additions or changes to your library. See this thread for details.

I am hoping to provide an automatic rescan capability in a future release of MinimServer.

Quote:By the way, if you are wondering why I don't just stick with my very passable Sonos interface, well .....

I thought that I had cured myself of this curious Hi Fi sickness. I have been prone to some nonsense in the past. For example, whilst ripping my CDs, I am still coming across some discs that I have inked with green pen in the past (remember that one?), and the wife never fails to chastise me for the time I put a load of my CDs in the deep freeze.

I have been trying out the Linn Kinsky interface because (of course) I am wondering about a future purchase of something from Linn. I wanted to make sure all the streaming side would work before throwing a load of cash at the system. [Sorry for the dull semi-Bio.]

I would be interested to know which renderer you are using to play music using Kinsky as a control point.