Hi
I have a 250 gb usb solid state harddrive that I can plug into my 272 front panel to play tunes
It doesn't show the titles properly or art work at all
When streaming from my Nas drive it works ok
I assume this is because I don't have a "roon?" Type program on the usb drive? Is there a free program that I can just dump on the drive that will sort this out so it all works ok though the naim app?
The Nas came pre installed with a program so I didn't have to worry about it
Any help appreciated
Posted on: 09 February 2018 by Mike-B
The USB drive is just like you see, the NAS has its media server UPnP software installed, the USB doesn’t. I understand Roon will fix it, but not tried it myself (all my music is on NAS or internet, so no point)
Posted on: 09 February 2018 by ChrisSU
If you can plug the USB drive into a NAS or computer, and point your media server at it, you should be able to see its content complete with metadata.
Posted on: 09 February 2018 by Japtimscarlet
Thanks Mike B
That's exactly it ..I have all the music on Nas ..but wanted to be able to have the same features but direct plugged in the 272
Is there a free software item that will package the music in a more accessible way....it sounds great as is ..but looks crap on the naim app
Posted on: 09 February 2018 by Mike-B
I'm not aware of any software that can be used to make the USB replay less clunky, that said I've not looked that hard as I rarely play anything on the USB port.
I used it in the past as an SQ benchmark, USB is as good as the players SQ gets, but once I'd determined my NAS via the all wired ethernet & switch sounded just as good, I was done.
Posted on: 09 February 2018 by Huge
When you access a file through the USB port that is EXACTLY what you are doing - access the file. What you see through the UI is the file names in the file system.
On the other hand UPnP streaming from a NAS drive is provide by a server (running on the CPU of the NAS) that indexes the files to be searched via a database. To find a track (data) to be streamed via UPnP you look up the metadata (Artist/Album/Track name etc.) in the database rather than using the file name. The Media Server then finds the right file for you.
Unlike a NAS drive, a USB stick doesn't have anything like a CPU that can run a database application for you, so you have to stick to the file names.
