Synology DSM 6.1

This is extremely helpful. I'd rather avoid unduly frequent failures. I'll accelerate the upgrade process.

What would you currently recommend by way of actual drive?

I have just shy of 1TB of music.

WD Red is what you want. 

nickpeacock posted:

 

Ah well, a complete re-index will only take a day or so.

     a day or so !!!   How much have you got stuffed in there.     My DS214 (2 bay - RAID-1) with 2TB takes 15-20 minutes,  I run a reindex when I think of it & have time just before my aprx monthly back up (just hit the reindex as I write)  

RE (reminds me I must run health check),  mine is set to automatic & its runs a check & sends me a monthly report by e-mail.   Plus the web page widget tells me its OK each time I open it 

WD Red - on it.

Re-indexing/health check - will procure cold towels to wrap round head for later when I tackle this...

Thanks all!

Message for you folks who had issues with the last DSM & Media Server updates working together within a single core CPU.   A new DSM  Version: 6.1-15047-2 is in the hopper ready to auto release.   The fix list does NOT show anything related to your Media Server problems.  see  .....  https://www.synology.com/en-uk/releaseNote/DS115j  ..... Its up to you.  

The new DSM 6.1-15047-2 has been released for auto update,  mine did so at its pre scheduled time this morning.    No news yet on the Media Server updates to work with the new DSM on single core CPU's.   I also found a Hyper Backup update downloaded & waiting for a manual update this morning. 

Mike,

Do you know if they've sorted out the state error in Hyper Backup.  After doing the backup, the current one unmounts a drive that it didn't mount in the first place, leaving it inaccessible to the next backup.  In other words if you schedule a regular backup on an external drive, it can only ever do the first one in the series...  all subsequent backups in the series fail...   And that's a classic state error problem.

(A computer service should de-allocate resources it allocated itself but should never de-allocate resources allocated by another service - the other service may still need them and the called service cannot know if the resources are still required.)

I can't help you Huge,  I store my backup in another place & periodically connect it to run a manual instigated incremental backup from the Syn webpage (GUI)

Sorry if this is a bit of a basic question -- recent bought a Mu-so Qb and noticed when I stream to it from Audio Station using Airplay very scratchy audio.  No problems though with uPnP (either from Audio Station or pulling tracks to the Qb from the Naim App using Media Server).

The Airplay otherwise works from my iPhone and also a Mac.

Anyone else have issues with Synology's Airplay?  Or should I just ignore it, would the uPnP provide a better quality stream (such as with 24-bit FLACs, etc.)?

Thanks.

Mike-B: Thanks, will use those going forward.  Though that said I did use Audio Station / DS Audio on the iPhone to stream to an Airport Express connected to an older hifi, so I expected that the Muso Qb would have worked with that.  But anyway, if uPnP will deliver a more "authentic" stream I'm all for it.

My uprade to DSM 6.1 partly killed my Unity Qute streaming from a Synology NAS via Synology Media Server.

I was getting "cannot connect", "cannot play track", all sorts of weird errors I had never seen before. Naturally I tried everything, reboots, re-indexing, etc, but to no avail.  I uninstalled and re-installed Media Server - no difference.

Finally (a bit random this) I unticked "Enable SMB Service" (accepted the warnings, etc) and then re-enabled it.  Everything has worked fine since. No idea why this should work or what the underlying issue was but it's fine now.

Hope this helps somebody!

Strange one that Cpt Black,  I've not heard that problem associated with SMB before.   I leave my SMB Service un-enabled as it causes a lot of hibernation wake ups.  I just enable it each time I want to have my PC or laptop get into NAS files  such as to upload a new album,  when thats done I un-enable again.  It's not needed for UPnP access to NAS files.  

I am accessing my NAS all the time from PCs and Laptops so it would be a pain to keep switching this on/off. As I say, I have no idea why this might have been causing an issue but it was a light-switch fix. Oh well, computers eh!

Hi Cptn,

Which Synology hardware do you have and which version of Synology Media Server?

I have a DS112+

Media Server reports version 1.6.2-2770 (says it's the latest version as well).

Captain

OK, so it's not related to the Synology Media Server 1.7.x problem.

I also leave SMB enabled as my PC doesn't like it otherwise and I frequently access the NAS for a variety of reasons.

In case anyone is still tracking this thread the combination below is working fine now:

DS112+
DSM 6.1-15047 Update 2
Media Service 1.171.-2820.

Captain

Looks like a special Media Server release on 6/4/17 with a unique number for single core CPU's only,  the dual & quad core Rev has not changed.

CaptainBlack posted:

In case anyone is still tracking this thread the combination below is working fine now:

DS112+
DSM 6.1-15047 Update 2
Media Service 1.171.-2820.

Captain

 

I did this DSM update recently on my DS115 with no problems. There was a warning that Minim wouldn't work any more if I did the update, but this turned out to be untrue, as Minim continued to work as normal afterwards.

Heads up you guys that had issues with DSM 6.1 on single core CPU

This morning some updates have come down the chute:

DSM 6.1.1-15101.     This has a whole list of changes.  ...........  bug & security fixes, support for scheduled RAID scrubbing & upgrade Samba to version 4.4.9.    Then it goes on to list 24 itemised fixes. 

Also in this release are some updates to the packages & includes a new Media Server  1.7.2-2830.   The release notes say its to make it compatible compatible with DSM 6.1.1.

Over to you,  hope it works OK this time

Further to the above.   The new DSM needs to be updated manually for some reason & not the usual auto-update.  I really don't know why as apart from pressing the go button it does it all itself,  needed me to sign in tho',   Not having done a manual update for a while, it did seem to take longer than I recall from the past.   Whatever its all working OK.

The Media Server software was installed 3 days ago & I had not noticed but when I opened up the 'Package Centre' it asks to acknowledge new terms & conditions.

Updated DSM yesterday.  Had to manually restart MinimServer.  Received a message that Java was corrupted, but that was evidently not true, as I acknowledged the error, and all fell into place.

Nick