What playlist software for UnitiQute?

Use the free Naim N-Stream app and in the window showing the current song playing, if you like it, swipe to the right or press the green 'Play Queue' button and it brings up the play queue.

Down at the bottom of that window is your playlists button and also an 'Add to' button where you can start a playlist.  You can then add the current track to the playlist.  You can also browse and add tracks to the playlist.

You can make more than one playlist if you wish.

I set my collection to play shuffle then add songs I like to playlists.

Hi Brendan

To qualify my answer, I am not yet with a naim streamer. This will be Easter time.

I do have a streaming solution for my second system though. I use MediaMonkey to create playlists that I either save to my (Synology) NAS or play directly from MediaMonkey.

I don't know if nstream has the ability of importing playlists (if it doesn't then it should) but MM is great.

And. Nstream is not free. It is included in the price of the Naim hardware.

I use playlist creator 3.6.2 for windows, free and very easy  to use and works perfectly

How do you get the playlists to your naim or to the naim app?

All my attempts failed as the naim refuses to play the lists on the NAS.

I tried VLC with m3u format, failed.

What about the path if the files are on  an NAS?

I agree Brendan thats boring with the naim app to modify playlists on the ipad.

I think it may depend on what upnp software you use. I use Asset and there are instructions on the net how to add a folder and set it for playlists, if you are using something different you may need to google. If you're using asset let me know and I will send a link

I have a zyxel NAS with mediamonky as dlna server. Works fine .. just the playlists

are a mystery. What is asset? The server sw from dbpoweramp? How would I get it

running on a NAS, the zyxel is quite a black box.

Dayjay: I'm just starting using Asset beta on my QNAP/UnitiQute instead of Twonky as I've heard such good things. Basics are working fine but playlists (it's pointed to a folder full of static M3Us) and dynamic browsing are not.

Id really appreciate if you could point me in the direction of the playlist creation folder instructions...

Gary, I will dig out the link and post it tomorrow,  in the meantime even if you can see your m3u playlists be aware that for some reason if you use an apple device to start it off it will only play one track. No idea why but if you select a track in the m3u playlist using your qute remote it will happily play them one after another - took me bloody ages to discover that!

Gary, apologies for late response on this, couldn't find the link and haven't been near my PC.  I'm assuming that Asset on your NAS has a configuration set up like mine on the PC.

1.  First create a folder in your main music directory to save your playlists to: I called mine something daft like AA playlists so that its always on top although it makes no different to Asset

2.  Create a test playlist with a couple of songs in and give it an obvious name - Test will do nicely; on Windows I use Playlist creator 3.6.2 which is free and very easy to use - most of the others I looked at were awkward to use in comparison - save your test playlist in the playlist folder as an M3U file

3.  Open Asset configuration settings menu - I can't help you with where this will be for a NAS installation but I'm sure there will be one

4.  Next to 'Advance Settings' click on 'Edit'

5.  Click on 'Add folder" and navigate to your playlist folder and select it

6. To the right of the folder it will, by default, say 'contains audio tracks' click on this and select 'contains playlists'

7.  In the tree underneath there should already be a folder called playlists as Asset has some by standard - just check that there is but I don't think I had to add one from memory

8.  Click on 'Ok' and if it asks you if you want to restart Asset say 'Yes'

9.  Go to your Qute and use the remote to navigate to playlists and whatever you have called your test playlist should be there.  Select a track and it will commence playing the playlist - you can set it for random play etc if you want to.  It should play track after track unless you include a track in your playlist that is not valid (if you delete, rename or move it after you have included it in the playlist for example'

10  Not sure why but if you use N Stream it does not move from song to song but it works pretty well from the remote if you do it as above.

11 You can also create and use playlists in N Stream but I found the above is much better

Hope it works - enjoy.  If not let me know

Regards

David

Thanks David. Works great, as you say apart from continuous playback via n-Stream

I have an m3u playlist of 4000+ songs had to change my HDX hardrive for the second time

my playlist was on a NAS server on the naimbackup folder

\\NAS\naimbackup\

when i tried to use this share as a backup in order to restore the playlist from it the HDX wouldnt work except when the folder is empty

so i copied the playlist folder to my computer then i promoted the empty share \\NAS\naimbackup to a backup store however when i copy the playlist folder there it does not show

I have one music Store

\\NAS\Naimstorage (which actually have all ripped WAV files there )

i have three music shares

\\NAS\musicHires

\\NAS\MusicMediumRes (FLAC version of the WAV ripped files )

\\NAS\MusicLowRes

tried putting it on any music share there still no luck

do you have any idea how can i use my already cumbersome playlist years of sorting can be imported into the HDX instead of doing it manually again PLEASE

thanks