HDX network shares - useful info...

Posted by: Billy Rubin on 11 September 2010

I've posted this elsewhere but thought starting a new thread might increase visibility and help others.

The HDX seems to be rather particular regarding the folder structure for music on network *shares*.

My experience is that the folder structure *must* be artist name > album name > tracks

For example, if you have only one track by a particular artist, the above folder structure still needs to be adhered to.

So:

Juliana Reyes (artist) > Slowly (track title)

won't work, but

Juliana Reyes (artist) > Dominos (album title) > Slowly (track title)

is OK.

It also seems that the presence of certain non-alphanumeric characters within the names of any of these folders will cause the HDX to simply ignore the entry completely.

For example, "The Beatles 24-48" seems to be OK, but "The Beatles 24/48" is not (I use this example as I have marked my high resolution content with this kind of a notation).

Although I haven't read the manual from literally from cover to cover, I have skimmed it and I haven't seen this explained anywhere. Probably needs a note in a future revision. Would have saved me some time...
Posted on: 11 September 2010 by Aleg
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Originally posted by Billy Rubin:
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It also seems that the presence of certain non-alphanumeric characters within the names of any of these folders will cause the HDX to simply ignore the entry completely.

For example, "The Beatles 24-48" seems to be OK, but "The Beatles 24/48" is not (I use this example as I have marked my high resolution content with this kind of a notation).
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The HDX being based on the Windows operating system I can imagine that the following characters or forbidden to be used in file and directory names (since this is so in Windows): "/\*?<>|:

Possibly these character can be used on a NAS since these are mostly based on Linux which allows most of these characters.

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aleg
Posted on: 12 September 2010 by David Dever
No, keep it simple as the HDX still needs to read SMB/CIFS-compatible directories / filenames.
Posted on: 12 September 2010 by Aleg
David

You are right, and it is also what I meant to say.

One shouldn't use any of the forbidden characters even though a NAS would allow them, because it is a Windows-based system that needs to read them and that can't handle them.

So don't use any of the forbidden characters.

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aleg