UnitiServe-SSD does not discover new hi-res files on NAS

Michael, have you added the folder into which you're putting these downloaded files as a "share" that the UnitiServe can access?  It's not enough to just add a folder to your nas and put music in it.  You must use the Desktop Client (or new Mac client if you have a Mac) to designate the folder as a "share" Then once the UnitiServe has indexed that share, the music will show up and be available to play.

Do not put the files in the MQ folder -- that is for music that the UnitiServe has ripped itself. 

Not sure exactly what you mean by "share" ... I created a "Music Store".

I am accessing US through the web-interface as I don't find anywhere in the n-serve (Mac client) where I can designate a "share".

Through the web-interface I have created a "Music Store" that points to \NaimDownloads - exactly like I did for the \NaimAudio folder for the ripped CDs. Do I need to create a "Network Share" as well?

The folders are opened for "guest" without pwd in the NAS and has same access priviliges.

Where do I put the files then? The \NaimDownloads is for downloads and when I created it as a Music Store the US created the sub-folders \LQ, \MQ and \HQ ... I assumed this was for storing hi-res files (in the \HQ folder). No?

In laymen's terms, which I understand, you have to log on to unitiserve, I use web interface. Locate your NAS shared folder, enable it as a share and then you should see all of your music.

Hope that helps

Tim

I just made an interesting discovery ...

The n-Serve has a setting in Preferences that tells whether to connect Manually or Automatic to the US. It was set to Automatic and it never connected. I set it to Manual and now a whole new range of functions became available under device->maintenance .... I didn't know about all this since I am fairly new to n-Serve ....

I have not solved my problem yet, but have got a new set of tools now.

What is the difference between a "Network Store" and a "Network Share"?

Michael, please read at least pages 18 and 19 of the UnitiServe user guide

http://www.naimaudio.com/sites..._english_issue3a.pdf

On your nas user interface create a new share, call in music.

put your downloaded and own ripped music there.

under nocircumstances but you doenloaded music in a naim store thats for exclusive use by the serve.

A store is a special share that is handled for the rips the serve makes, nothing else should go in there. With the ssd you need one store for the rips and one share for your ddownloads.

If you want your downloads folder on the diskstation to be used as a share for downloaded music you need to tell the serve to look for music there. This should be possible on the Mac dtc, but I cannot test it.

Thanks for all comments!

Problem solved - and I learned a good portion of new things during the process.

Now after testing HD formats I even believe I can hear the difference between FLAC and WAV. In my opinion WAV seems to have more dynamics, edge and depth (not to start that discussion).

(by the way - I am not very impressed with the Mac client, n-Serve. It appears to be a prototype not ready for the market).

What exactly are you trying to do with the OS X nServe?  IMHO it will never be meant as a total replacement for iOS control; rather, it's an alternative to the Windows Desktop Client.  As the latter, I think it does a fine job.  But it took me a bit of time playing with it to come to the 'fine job' conclusion; at first I couldn't find any of the important menus.  But that was my impatience

Naim do say that it is a "public beta" version which means that it is being currently tested by the public. If there are things you consider to be bugs or can be improved upon in your opinion then report them to Naim's development team. They've put it out there to get feedback from users.

First of all, the usability is poor to someone coming from the Mac world where everything is intuitive. It feels like the workflows, functions and user interface was created by an engineer rather than some usability focused person (I am a software engineer myself). It is not intuitive and there is no manual as far as I know.

Second, there are functions that don't work properly. E.g. when searching for Devices, it just keeps searching and you have no way of interrupting it. You can only force kill the application and start it up again.

It did not tell me that it never found my US, so me as a beginner did not know that I actually had a range of tools waiting for me since the "maintenance" menu did not show despite that all ripped CD music was nicely listed in the large window.

What is the connection between the search window if you search in Google and then the info window below?

Naturally, I should aim this to Naim, but they seem not to make much marketing for getting feedback - I have not seen any invitation for users to give feedback. It is launched as a version 1.0 in App Store, so it is an official release.

It is not logical and different function areas do not interoperate very well. There are a number of things that can only be done in this tool (or the web interface, which is even worse), so it is a crucial tool.