Music from a NAS drive

I’m slowly moving our system from a Masterlink setup to a Netlink setup.

As part of this I thought I’d try and load my CD’s onto a NAS drive to access through the Music tab. All good so far.

I’ve loaded a few CD’s and on the drive the tracks all display correctly and in album order. When I go to the Music tab on the App the tracks are in alphabetical order.

Is there a way of the setting the App to recognise the actual track order instead of alphabetical?

Thanks

Peter

Hi - What DLNA server are you using on your NAS?

The drive is a Western Digital. Media server is DLNA I think

Usually the Twonky server is (was) installed on the WD’s - however, you can install other servers yourself e.g. the Plex server.....

What you ‘see’ there is the file structure.

You must look for the different settings in the ui there - this determines how the files are presented in the player, you use.

It will be hard to give you a more exact advice, unless we know more about the server running there.

MM

petermc:

As part of this I thought I’d try and load my CD’s onto a NAS drive to access through the Music tab. All good so far.

1.How did you "load" the CD's onto the NAS?

2.Did you populate the music file TAG's with the correct information (Artist, Album, Trackname, Tracknumber, etc.)

Music is loaded direct into the NAS using a CD drive and dB Poweramp Music converter running on a Mac.

The file structure on the NAS drive through the Mac is showing the albums, tracks in the correct order.

petermc:

Music is loaded direct into the NAS using a CD drive and dB Poweramp Music converter running on a Mac.

The file structure on the NAS drive through the Mac is showing the albums, tracks in the correct order.

So you ripped the music files to mp3 or aac or flac or .........?

But did you save the metadata also?

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_editor

 

 

 

Apparently dB Poweramp has a module to fetch metadata:

« PerfectMeta uses 4 Internet metadata providers simultaneously, not just one premium, but two: All Media Guide and GD3, in addition to MusicBrainz and freedb, allowing any errors, such as spelling mistakes to be corrected »

@petermc

The logic is he following:

You rip the CD to your NAS drive, tracks should be enriched with metadata such as album/title/artist names, release date, genre, etc ... by the PerfectMeta module.

The NAS DLNA server application (Twonky ?) is configured to point to the music folder where all your music is stored.

The NAS DLNA server application reads the folders’ contents, organize the music based on the metadata found in each track, e.g by Album, by Artist, by Date, by Genre, etc and exposes these trees to any DLNA controller such as the B&O app.

The DLNA controller, such as the B&O app browses your collection according to what the DLNA server exposes and drives the DLNA renderer, I.e. your B&O NL product.

If you could post screenshots of what your B&O app sees, it would help

Whether music can be played or not. And you should know a place that offers free melody sounds for phones. You can access at sonneriepro to set free phone ringtones.

Whether music can be streamed or not.