Inbuilt uPNP Server in Qnap?

Posted by: Somchie on 19 November 2011

My brand new Netgear Readynas Ultra2 is not working correctly and it will probably be replaced as a DOA.

 

However, I am not thinking of going for a Qnap instead. I read somewhere that the inbuilt uPNP server in Qnap, Twonky?, is not supporting FLAC?

 

You guys running Qnap NAS, are you running the inbuilt uPNP or a separate computer based uPNP server?

Posted on: 19 November 2011 by garyi
It does support flac and is very stable in my experience
Posted on: 19 November 2011 by Somchie
Originally Posted by garyi:
It does support flac and is very stable in my experience

 

Gary, thanks for your reply. May I ask which model you are using?

Posted on: 19 November 2011 by garyi

TS410 with four 1.5tb drives in raid 5 giving 4.5tb of data plus 1 drive failure.

 

Important stuff from this is backed up to a 2tb USB drive attached to it. as raid is not back up.

Posted on: 19 November 2011 by ChrisH
IM at the other end of the scale to Gary, with a QNAP TS119. I used it for the 1st 9 months for streaming to my Uniti via the inbuilt Twonkymedia. Must say I didn't ever encounter any difficulties, always seemed stable. Some people don't really like the menu tree and navigation with Twonky from what I have seen on this forum, but from my perspective I didn't have an issue. And the QNAP NAS's seem to be built very robustly.
I've since purchased a Unitiserve so I use the NAS now purely for back up and for allowing the US to collate all files on the network for streaming to the Uniti.
Hope this helps.
Posted on: 19 November 2011 by Fozz

QNAP drive is fab and with the plugin set up it has you can install different versions of twonky etc.  I use a single drive TS-110 and choose to make occasional backups of the music collection (all FLAC) myself.

 

Currently I use twonky to some devices with plugplayer and also take audio direct from the drive using

Songbird on macs.  One to a NDAC and to a HRT music streamer II+.  No problems.

 

Fozz

Posted on: 20 November 2011 by Fjodor

Have a Qnap TS 210 with the Twonky server for more than a year now and runs nearly without problems (All music is Flac, rest of my set up NDX, XPS, 282, 250, SBL). The navigation has become much easier, as you can choose an extended navigation tree in the set up which gives you a far bigger choice of options to browse your Flac files with. The only draw back I see at the mo is that even though Flac files on the Twonky server are shown in the order they originally appear on the CD, the NDX always plays them in alphabetical order. Harmless for pop, frustrating for classical music. 

Posted on: 21 November 2011 by roo
Originally Posted by Fjodor:

The only draw back I see at the mo is that even though Flac files on the Twonky server are shown in the order they originally appear on the CD, the NDX always plays them in alphabetical order. Harmless for pop, frustrating for classical music. 

Some rippers work round this by naming the files 01 - Track Name, 02 - Track name, etc so that the sort order is corrected. I'll have to play around and see how n-Stream and the NDX asks for a list of tracks and then how it selects the next one. You would have imagined that if the flac file had a track number tag that would be used in preference to the file name.

 

While we are talking about QNAP and Twonky...


Has anyone made any changes to their setup to control how Twonky indexes compilation albums and if so what did you change?

 

Has anyone edited the clients.db file to make adjustments for n-Stream and the NDX? My iPhone is showing low resolution album art and I think this is due to Twonky serving 160x160 pixel images by default. Does anyone know what the native album art sizes are when n-Stream shows art on the iPhone and iPad?