Dear forummembers,
Apart from my Naim set-up, I use Assett 4.1 (running on wired PC) and the latest version of nStream. Assett is automatically started when I power on my pc.
Sometimes I notice that albums are missing all at once, once browsing through nStream, and sometimes - for no reason - albums are listed twice in nStream. The physical files on the NAS have not changed or are not missing. If this occurs I normally open the Assett manager and push the button "detect changes" which causes Assett to rescan the library. What also helps is that I go to nStream and hit the button "delete Upnp cache" though I need to admit I do not exactly understand what this action actually means. Especially nStream sometimes listing an album twice annoys me (I checked and checked the tags on these albums, but they are correct. Even more, every time it is other albums that nStream lists twice)
Anyone else has these issues also ? What could solve it. Again, they occur rarely and I believe mostly after I added newly ripped CD's to the library.
should I sometimes hit the button "refresh library" in Assett?
Iver
Posted on: 12 March 2013 by Simon-in-Suffolk
Iver, I don't think that's anything to do with Nstream. I'd raise on the Asset support forum. It sounds like each time you switch on Asset it is re indexing. It might be best to try and switch auto index update off in the advanced settings, but you will need to press the update button each time you content.
An other option is to leave Asset powered up, which is what I do.
Simon
Posted on: 12 March 2013 by Iver van de Zand
Dear Simon,
I agree with you that it is probably due to Assett and not nStream. If I use Twonky as UpnP, the issue does not occur. I am now going to search the Assett forum looking for a solution. By the way, I also have Assett almost always powered up.
Apart from above, do you now what the nStream button "delete UpnP cache" exactly means ?
Thanks, Iver
Posted on: 12 March 2013 by Tog
Have tried the new Asset for Mac recently looks interesting but I couldn't get it to transcode flac to wav.
Will keep trying - that said my Vortexbox powered TogServe2 with MiniDLNA hasn't missed a beat in 18 months -
Sorry couldn't resist.
Tog
Posted on: 12 March 2013 by Simon-in-Suffolk
Iver, it simply deletes the cache memory containing metadata/album art so NStream doesn't need to re request it thereby speeding things up. However if you have re indexed or similar the cached values might not align up with what is on the server so you delete the cache which forces Nstream to reread from the uPNP server
Simon
Posted on: 12 March 2013 by Iver van de Zand
tx Simon, that's what I expected the button would do ..... think I have things under control now with a complete Assett refresh and a cache-empty on nStream .... things look ok now ... gain, thank you for your help !!
