Playlists on NAS?

Dear,

I would recommend you to start one of the Library Management tools like iTunes, MediaMonkey or Foobar (there are many more). These tools will allow you to create playlists as m3u files which your nice normally recognizes. As such they will be available to anyone using the NAS with any of the devices.

Good luck, Iver

Cheers Iver, I'll take a look. Does it matter where the M3u files are placed?

Les

Hi Les,

That depends a bit on the UpnP server you are using and where that server is instructed to look for the playlists. ARe you using Twonky or Assett. In both tools it is specified where the playlists should be stored. That is the location where yiu should put them once you start creating them with a tool like Foobar, iTunes or MediaMonkey.

By the way, there are static playlists and dynamic ones. Static lists are a number of records/albums that you specify and are marked as a certain playlist. Dynamic ones are playlists that group a certain number of tracks based on your instructions. One could for example create a dynamic playlists for all tracks that are "Genre=Jazz and Year>2010 and Rating>3 Stars". Every time the user tags a record that complies to those rules, it is automatically taken into the dynamic playlist.

Cheers,

Iver

My Synology NAS has its own built in Media Server so will do a bit of research to see where files need to be placed. Thanks

No is the short answer.

the long answer.

I use a QNAP NAS which has Twonky as the media server.

I use media monkey to create playlists and export them to .m3u  format.

for twonky i need to store these in an artist folder.



Then in the n-stream app i have a choice called playlists



and this is where these playlist shows up and they should be available to all iDevices.

I only figured this out with a lot of hit and miss attempts but I'm sure your scenario won't be hugely different.

Hope this helps.


John

SJB

Thanks John, that does help. I can see I am entering an area of dark arts.

I was planning to start to build playlists in advance of getting my Unitilite and being able to use Nstream. I think i'll wait to get it up and running and experiment.

Les

Unfortunately now that I try to play the playlist on n-stream I can only actually choose one song at a time form the play list and not the whole playlist. 

Ah now I have it. 

Select and hold the playlist and choose play and all the tracks in the playlist are added to the play queue. 

I've just done a 142 track list for Mrs Sloop, it's playing Primitive Girl by M Ward as I type. 

Hi,

as you are running a synology NAS you should be able to install Bubble UPnP server on it

http://www.bubblesoftapps.com/bubbleupnpserver/

This provides very powerful server based playlists and muti room support through the OpenHome extensions to UPnP.

Conrad

Cheers Conrad I'll take a look