QNAP/TWONKY help required

Posted by: JohnL on 29 January 2014

Hi, am just in the process of re-ripping my cds (dB Poweramp) and have put the artists name in front of the album title in order to group artists albums together in NStream. I've noticed that the track list in QNap 212 has gone to alphabetical rather than track list. Will this be the same in NStream ? I cant check at the moment as my NDX is back at Salisbury for repair. Any help on what (if anything) I need to do would be greatly appreciated, as plain English as possible please, I'm hopeless with computers

 

many thanks

 

John

Posted on: 29 January 2014 by Sloop John B

There is a field in dBPoweramp called "Album artist" that will do exactly what you are attempting to do manually. so for example if you have an album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions and select "Elvis Costello" as the "album artist" then this will show up in twonky under the artist "Elvis Costello" along wih any non Attractions CDs you may have. Or perhaps a better example is if you have Double fantasy bu John lennon and Yoko Ono, and choose lennon as the album artist it will appear with lennon's other solo albums and not under Lennon and Yoko.

 

 

What you are seeing is the folder view, there should be a tag in the file that identifies it as track 1 or 2 etc. Twonky will read this tag. Right click one of the files in question and select "view ID tags" to see what dbpoweramp has tagged and what Twonky will see.

 

 

SJB

 

 

Posted on: 29 January 2014 by JohnL

Hi Sloop John B, Many thanks for your response. I've done that and picked the first track alphabetically to open. The ID Tag says 7 of 7 (which it is on the track listings on the CD). Does this mean I'm in the clear here.

Many thanks

John

 

Posted on: 29 January 2014 by Sloop John B
Originally Posted by JohnL:

Hi Sloop John B, Many thanks for your response. I've done that and picked the first track alphabetically to open. The ID Tag says 7 of 7 (which it is on the track listings on the CD). Does this mean I'm in the clear here.

Many thanks

John

 

Your good to go, presuming you are ripping as flac?

I could never get twonky to read the WAV track tag (although some people seem to be able to manage it with a bit of manipulation) but once it's flac, twonky will list the album in track order.

 

what's the problem with you NDX by the way?

 

SJB

 

 

Posted on: 29 January 2014 by JohnL

Thanks for that, great relief. Yes I am ripping to flac so hopefully all is well. As for the NDX, I stripped my system down a couple of weeks ago for its annual spring clean and when I put everything back together again and switched on, the display on the NDX looked "fractured" for want of a better work (green lettering almost had a melting effect) and seemed to be trawling through my NAS drive files of its own will. Also, it was not turning itself off. NDX still worked via NStream by the way. I took the unit to Darran at Class A in Sheffield and Naim informed him that a ribbon connector on the NDX at the time I bought it had a connection that had a tendency to "pop out". Whilst this could be pushed back in, the recommendation was back to Salisbury for the updated connection fitting so that's what we have done. Many thanks for your help, the thoughts of having to re-rip AGAIN was making me hyper ventilate !!

cheers

 

John