A number of people have posted here about difficulties with these consumer grade NAS drives. Maybe better to go for a tried and tested NAS such as a Synology or QNAP with WD Red drive. I don't understand your comment about not ripping CDs. Does your US have an internal drive?

A family member has one that he uses for x4 person family data/photo/video/games/uni/homework etc.   He started music streaming recently & I'm not exactly sure why, but he has been grumbling & asking questions about my Synology with interest in the media server options & it looks like a Syn or QNAP is on the christmas present list.   

Hi,

In our experience we've seen a lot of issues reported regarding the stability of WDs implementation of Twonky over the years and so personally I'd avoid them if you are wanting something specifically as a UPnP server ... in that case I'd go with something that either runs MinimServer (I believe there are versions for both Synology and QNAP) or Asset UPnP (there's a QNAP version of Asset UPnP) or maybe run AssetUPnP on something like a Raspberry Pi.

Cheers

Phil

Phil Harris posted:

Hi,

In our experience we've seen a lot of issues reported regarding the stability of WDs implementation of Twonky over the years and so personally I'd avoid them if you are wanting something specifically as a UPnP server ... in that case I'd go with something that either runs MinimServer (I believe there are versions for both Synology and QNAP) or Asset UPnP (there's a QNAP version of Asset UPnP) or maybe run AssetUPnP on something like a Raspberry Pi.

Cheers

Phil

Hi Phil, I will be looking at QNAP https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/model.php?II=258

I will connect Qnap to the pc so i can then transfer music from the PC to QNAP and add QNAP storage to the Unitiserve i can then access music from QNAP through Unitiserve.

I use a couple of WD MyCloud drives for back-up purposes only.
I find their built-in media serving software not terribly good, with meta data not being well presented.

My QNAP NAS drive running Asset server and Synology NAS drive running MinimServer, which I use in other systems, work really well with no meta date issues and are much more configurable. For example, I rip to FLAC and have the NAS drive convert to WAV as it plays the files. As far as I know, that's something that can't be configured on a WD NAS drive.

Guys,

If Ngene is only using the WD NAS as an extension store for a UnitiServe rarther than a DLNA server, then surely the Wonky Twonky media server is irrelevant; doesn't the US just treat a NAS as a Windows File Share on a network endpoint?

I'm not saying that WD NAS drives are particularly good, but this surely one isn't being used as a media server (that being the role in which where they're particularly troublesome).

I have a WD MyBook world and until recently it worked pretty fine apart from two issues - ordering of tracks and more recently assigning the wrong album art work to some albums. 

Huge posted:

Guys,

If Ngene is only using the WD NAS as an extension store for a UnitiServe rarther than a DLNA server.

That is correct Huge. Buying a Nas would be a waste of money as i would only use it as a extension to the Unitiserve store and not as a music server.

ngene posted:

Huge posted:

Guys,

If Ngene is only using the WD NAS as an extension store for a UnitiServe rarther than a DLNA server.

That is correct Huge. Buying a Nas would be a waste of money as i would only use it as a extension to the Unitiserve store and not as a music server.

I don't understand that... That's exactly what the WD My Cloud is, it is a NAS.

Poggy posted:

I have a WD MyBook world and until recently it worked pretty fine apart from two issues - ordering of tracks and more recently assigning the wrong album art work to some albums. 

We've had reported (quite frequently) issues with subsets of the users collection being duplicated multiple times ... confirmed using UPnP Tools on a few systems. Getting the WD to do a rescan of the music collection resolves it every time.

Cheers

Phil

Thanks Phil, I'll try that :-)