ARCHIVED FORUM -- March 2012 to February 2022READ ONLY FORUM
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Looking at your log files, it looks like your DLNA server is minidlna as this is usually the one I was using which relies on port 8200. It's good but the Artwork gets resized to an annoyingly low resolution
Yep, 256x256, but enough for the JukeBox and its inappropriate vignetting effect
BS Moment, BS Core, BG 4002, BC 4500, BS1, BL18, BL19, BL8000 + RCV1, A6, M5, M3, A1, P6 (tks Botty), H5, TR1
Hmmm.. Ok I can't blame Plex nor B&O but it's not worth the hassle. It's obvious that the way BS moment communicates and caches the data is not identical to other DLNA servers. Without logs from the BS moment, we can't really do much. On Plex forum, literally nobody gives a ... about B&O.
I will leave Plex for movies and shows and for music, I found minidlna ( the binary not the repository ) is a great replacement. Actually it's much lighter, faster and has a lot of configuration.
I applied so patches to remove the 160x160 cover art restriction, created a custom server icon and compiled it. BS ended up collecting and harvesting everything, cover art resolution set to 600x600 and the Artists are grouped by Album artist which was the most important thing for me.
The outcome is :
Yay can't be happier. Not that I tried mnidlna before but the executable version isn't much appealing...
And btw, I'm still in the process of looking for a way to manually assign pictures to artists. Will report back.
Another update as a work around, I am now running DLNA in expert mode : All my Artists have the correct Picture extracted from Last.fm.
What I did is wrote a script ( still buggy but saved me lots of time ) that will go to Plex metadata and extract every artist name, download the picture assigned to it and rename the picture to Artist name.
Fortunately everything i written in XML so readable.
Here's a sample in my case :
I'm relying on plex for the time being to help me. Since B&O won't be fixing anything for sure, I'm planning to write a script that will go to http://<momentIP>:8080/BeoContent/music/dlnaProfile/artist
Extract the normalizedArtist string and download it from last.fm .... not an easy task since I'm not a coder but if you guys have more ideas let me know.