NAS for a Uniti

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Originally posted by divuk83:
My 3 week old Thecus N2200 is causing me bother however I'm not even sure I bought a device that does what I want it to.

Do all NAS drives stream FLAC? If I'm understanding what I have been googling correctly it would apear the not all NAS drives do this? Before the media server on my NAS died I was only able to see MP3 files on my NAS from my uniti, which was a shame as 13 tracks is not much of a music collection! If I connect to the NAS using my pc, foobar and foo_upnp I can see all the files due to the transcoding foobar does to WAV files.

Why would foobar need to transcode your files on the NAS from WAV?

Have you definitely ripped your files to FLAC and can you use foobar to stream these to your Uniti and what does the Uniti say that it is playing?

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If I were to get my N2200 working would I be able to get it going with my uniti without a PC or am I better off getting another NAS? If no which NAS should be going for with a budget of about £200 without hard drives.
software thingy.

The Uniti should be able to play music stored on your NAS without involving your PC. I use my PC to configure my NAS (Netgear ReadyNAS Duo), and rip and store music.

I have not studied all NASs, but to the extent that they tend to be Linux/Unix based I think that you will find that they are more likely to support flac than WMA.

All my files are ripped to FLAC using dbpoweramp except for 1 album that I have only got in mp3. When the NAS was working I could only see the mp3 files from my uniti or using another upnp browser on my home network. I also tried putting WAV files in the shared media folder and the uniti could not see these either.

Unfortunatly my N2200 will no longer let me enable media server so I can no longer see anything at all. From what I gather its a known problem to Thecus as many other people are having the problem.

I just used the foo_upnp as an example that the files do work, the default setting is to transcode so I left it at that as I was happy to have it working at all!

Having spent the afternoon searching the google and these forums I have purchsed a netgear readynas duo. I will be returning my Thecus for a refund.

The whole NAS and upnp thing is completly new to me, despite knowing what I'm doing with PC's!

Thanks for your help.

Dave

I have just got a qnap and it uses twonky as the upnp server which streams flac no bovver.