DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

amunoz_tico wrote:

Hi Everyone.. Happy new year!!

I bought a DNS-323 and I already installed TwonkyMedia.  I use a PlayStation 3 to gain access to the media server. 

I'm a new user for TwonkyMedia and DNS-323, so I would like to get your help in order to answer the following questions:

- how create playlist for TwonkyMedia
- what "rebuild" the database means?
- If I add new media, I should ejecute a "rescan" or it is automatic?
- Do I install Debian on the DNS-323 will be useful?


I hope you could help me!

Regards!

- how create playlist for TwonkyMedia - dont know, dont use it ... YET
- what "rebuild" the database means? - rescans your media and colates that information to a db. this db is what gets queried and populates your song titles ect
- If I add new media, I should ejecute a "rescan" or it is automatic? - this is normally automatic (depending on refresh rate you put in.. ) however, you can do it manually (eg, rebuild db)
- Do I install Debian on the DNS-323 will be useful? - only if you want to do other functions OTHER than media streaming

HTH

HaydnH wrote:

"If I add new media, I should ejecute a "rescan" or it is automatic?"

There's a rescan setting on the Twonky settings page, a value of "-1" is only add new files when they are found, "0" is only rescan when I tell the server to and any positive number is rebuild the whole database every N minutes. I would recommend a setting of "-1", 0 is annoying unless your media hardly ever changes and rebuilding is pretty noisy unless you have very quiet disks. I think it's on the basic settings page of the web setup but can't remember 100%.

HaydnH,  thanks.    I will try that option at night.

By the way, do you (or anyone) know how make playlists and where they should be placed?   The support page from TwonkyMedia is a little hard for me (i'm not  an expert!)

Regards!

Re: Playlists - Twonky supports WPL, PLS & M3U playlists, so searching google for software to create those playlist types should return something. I think I read on the Twonky forum that people have been having problems if they're not in the root of the mp3 media folder listed in Twonky although I could be wrong - try searching the Twonky Forum for playlist if you have problems getting it to find them.

Zen, I agree that rescanning when copying stuff over is quite easy - I'll have access to request a rescan when I copy new media to the box anyway. I find the N minute rescan annoying as my HDDs make loads of noise when a rescan happens and it really gets on my nerves if I'm listening to relaxing music and suddenly get clunking going on! I haven't checked if the -1 persists over reboot with my setup... I'll check when I get a chance!

A word of warning - If you're going to edit the config file, stop the server first and start it again after editing - you should never edit config files while a server is running unless that server specifically allows it.

Hi,

Did anyone ever have any joy with getting the "-1" setting to stick under the content directory rescan options?

I've just set myself up with a DNS-323 running Twonkymedia 4.4.5 and am having exactly the same issue. Anyone found a fix?