Cover art resolution: Synology NAS to NDS

Posted by: G Hubregtse on 25 August 2012

Having found only various partial explanations in searches, I was wondering if anyone has recently come to a definitive conclusion on this issue...

 

I am using a Synology 212+ with an NDS. It sounds great, but the cover art images that appear on the iPad3 with nStream (updated version) are of disappointingly low resolution. The JPEG folders as produced by dbPoweramp are of significantly higher quality, so the image information is there.

 

Having spent a few hours trying to find a solution, I was wondering whether anyone can confirm or contradict the folloing impressions:

 

- The problem lies with the transmission of the image by the Synology NAS music server, not in the nStream app.

 

- It is not possible to use the Synology NAS with another server programme (e.g. Asset / Twonky)

 

- Ticking or unticking the box on the media server thumbnail resolution control does not help

 

 

Any ideas?? Or is this something I am just going to have to learn to live with?

 

Geer Hubregtse

Posted on: 06 September 2013 by Jan

Sorry, not two years, of course. Since the playlist option was implemented in n-stream 

Posted on: 06 September 2013 by JLD
Originally Posted by GlenW:

No worries.  It's great when a support process works and results in product improvement!

 

I found Synology to be  very helpful and responsive with this.  Credit to them.

 

Hi guys,

 

Definitively Synology has a great support in addition to their product.

From my first musical server I've bought a new one for a friend and now I've just bought another one for my office...

 

For now the covers album are very small on the Iphone side of nstream and for most search way there is not cover at all...

I suppose ther is a big way of improvement here. (album workflow would be perfect)

But I'm not sure to know if this is relative to synology media server or Naim n-stream.

Somebody knows ?

 

JL

Posted on: 06 September 2013 by Foxman50

Does anyone use the transcode feature within "Media Server", and if so does this transcode HI-Res FLAC to WAV correctly. Im still using DSM 3.2 as this was the last version it seemed to work in. However not tried this lattest version. Be nice to have the hi res cover art which does not work in DSM 3.2

Posted on: 06 September 2013 by Stampie
Originally Posted by Foxman50:

Does anyone use the transcode feature within "Media Server", and if so does this transcode HI-Res FLAC to WAV correctly. Im still using DSM 3.2 as this was the last version it seemed to work in. However not tried this lattest version. Be nice to have the hi res cover art which does not work in DSM 3.2

I've always been happy with FLAC so haven't bothered with it myself. I'm not 100% sure, but I have a vague recollection that this has been discussed elsewhere - sorry my addled brain cannot be more precise.

 

It might be worth creating a new thread to get more views/responses to your specific problem.

 

Nick

Posted on: 06 September 2013 by AntonD

Yep, the update seems to have done the trick. Well done synology.

I would say my current setup does exactly what I require Now.

so, to a long and enjoyable Friday listening session.

ATB, Anton

Posted on: 06 September 2013 by Singlespeed
Originally Posted by AntonD:

Yep, the update seems to have done the trick. Well done synology.

I would say my current setup does exactly what I require Now.

so, to a long and enjoyable Friday listening session.

ATB, Anton

Do you mean in regard to the image problem or the transcode hi-def problem Anton?