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Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

Stephan — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:23:36 GMT

Yeah I know but in this case ( The Mars Volta ) the "The" is an essential part of the name as there is another band called Mars Volta ( without the "the") ... Anyway I got used to it ...

I remember a band called "The The" I just wonder where the Beosound 5/Twonky will sort it to.... :-)

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

kimhav — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:02:30 GMT

Stephan:
"The"-Bands (e.g. The Mars Volta ) are sorted by name without the "The" in this case under the Letter "M" ... is there a way to change it to sort it under "T" ?

Well, I would say that the sorting is doen correct; if you would go to record shop (or let's make use of library as records shops almost doesn't exists anymore); where would you find Mars Volta? Under M or T; of course M. Same goes for The Beatles; T or B?

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

quinnie — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:20:19 GMT

My new Synology DS 211j Nas shows the albumcovers. Lovely. But now the encore is splitting all albums with various artist. Its means that I Can only play one song from the album and then the encore stop playing. Can anybody help me.

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

quinnie — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:56:41 GMT

Can I use this http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20022610-1.html

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

quinnie — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:54:22 GMT

Yes I know but it is a very expensive NAS-server. B&O also recommened Iomega Storcenter Px4-300d and Iomega Storcenter PX4-300r, but they are also very expensive.

I would like one NAS-server that is cheaper, but I don´t know which one to buy. Please help :-)

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

talisman — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:07:10 GMT

Qnap NAS-Server workks great, and are recomeded by B&O.

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

quinnie — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:29:19 GMT

Thanks eranlux.

B&O recommened a NAS-Server with Twonkey Media Server 5.1.3 or higher installed. Can you recommend any other NAS-Server with this installed?

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

erandlux — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:25:23 GMT

A WD live have a twonky 5 media serveur installed, you don't need to install anything it will normally work. (it works for Stephan)

Just pay attention that if you need for any reason to upgrade to a new twonky version' WD is not proving an upgrade for licence reasons. You will have to hack your NAS and install the new version yourself via accessing the root files ( and pay 15 EUR) for licence.

I really don't know why it works good for Stephan and not for me, I am still struggling with tags and multiple album dispay, but at least all covers are present afetr I upgraded my NAS.

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

quinnie — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Now I am very confused. I been told that my D-link DNS 320 Nas-server could not show albumcovers, because it didn´t had Twonkey Media Server 6,5 installed. My D-link had UPnP and it played the music but could´t show the covers.

In my local computershop I asked about the Western Digital Live Nas Server, and I was told that it need some software, and It was very complicated to install that software. So they could not recommend this NAS server.

If i buy a Western Digital Live Nas Server, do I then have to install any software / programs or can I just use it like it is?

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

Carolpa — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:07:14 GMT

it doesn't to be Twonky installed on the server. The server should be at least working with the DLNA and/or UPNP standards though.

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

Stephan — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:49:54 GMT

You don't need a special branded NAS, in my case a Western Digital Live NAS server ( amazon, around 100 Euros for 1 TB) does the job.. its even available in larger sizes and you don't have to invest a fortune ...

I have 2 of them ( one is running/always on, the other one is in cold standby as a backup)

The drives are reasonable fast, quiet and have the ability to power down if not in use and also the album covers work perfectly ... what else do you want ?

Best

Stephan

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

quinnie — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:33:40 GMT

I have now returned my D-link Nas-server. There was a problem with Twonky Media Server. Somebody told me, that I need an Iomega or a Q-nas if I want to se the albumcover.

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

erandlux — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:08:45 GMT

Hi,

I had the same problem for a few albums, and the twonky upgrade solved the problem.

Another point is the tagging of tracks. it is really difficult and time consuming to have everything correct. For artbook, I don't add the cover in the tag, I have a jpg picture ( always named Folder.jpg, so that twonky recognise it) in the album folder, and it works better for me than the embeded picture, and no limitation on the resolution.

Hope it helps

Eric

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

quinnie — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:20:27 GMT

I have all my MP3 files on an extern harddisc. When I start A.MEM I can see the albumcovers and everything works perfect. When I transfer the same musicfiles to my NAS-Server, I can play the music but now I can´t see the albumcovers anymore.

I been told, that maybe my NAS-server does not have the the latest Twonky Software installed and this could be a problem. But I really don´t know anything about it.

Re: Beosound 5 Encore Ablum covers & naming issue

Carolpa — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:50:49 GMT

Hi,

Twonky is a upnp server (it is software). See the site of Twonky.

It can be installed on different OS, even on NAS Linux systems.

In mpstag you embedded a cover to a music file, I presume?

Copy this file to a usb stick. Place this stick in the BS5e.

Start Aux

You should get the file. If all tags are correct the cover is shown.

Note: limit the cover to a resolution of 500*500

Attention: what type of music file do you use? Try m4b or wma or flac or mp3.