Twonky

Posted by: steven2907 on 11 June 2012

What is the selling point of twonky?
Posted on: 11 June 2012 by Guido Fawkes
It's free .. So doesn't need a selling point .. I think UPnP = universal plug & pray is millstone we have to overcome - thankfully the Vortexbox is also free and just works.
Posted on: 12 June 2012 by McGhie
I thought there was a licence fee for Twonky Server ($20 according to http://twonky.com/store/index.aspx). If it's supplied on a NAS then you're still paying for it in the cost of the NAS. The only selling point I'm aware of is that it's sometimes all that is offered by way of a UPnP Server on some makes of NAS (I wouldn't expect that anyone would really 'choose' to use it). Asset is free for the basic product (UPnP Server) or $25 including some extras. It's been working flawlessly for me for 18 months (15 of which using the free version - recently bought licence but this was to support it rather than for any additional functionality since the basic UPnP server is excellent). Cheers Ian
Posted on: 12 June 2012 by Steven Shaw

As far as I know its the best upnp serverfor a readynas, which is why I use it. If anyone knows of a better solution for readynas users I'd be happy to look at alternatives.

Posted on: 12 June 2012 by Simon-in-Suffolk

Hi Steve, Twonky is relatively cheap to register, and is ported for Windows, Mac and Linux. Although you see people call it a upnp server, the key thing is that's it's a DLNA server which is a specific implementation of upnp for multimedia apps in the domestic environment. It supports audio, video and images.

 

I personally find it a little slow and limiting on search/indexing and WAV metadata functions compared to some competition.

 

I use Asset which again is a DLNA server, but is optimised for audio only, great indexing functions and supports WAV metadata (both standard and unofficial variants) but is only ported for Windows. Asset is also relatively cheap to register.

Posted on: 13 June 2012 by McGhie
Hi Steven I agree. When I ran a ReadyNAS Duo I bought a Twonky licence as it seemed to be the only alternative to the supplied ReadyDLNA software, which I was having problems with. I still found myself using Asset whenever my PC was on though. I'm now running Asset on a server and I've decommissioned the ReadyNAS. Cheers Ian
Posted on: 13 June 2012 by SU1226

i use twonky on my macbook. i think it's good upnp server because easy to setup and use.