by emalvick » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:16 pm
Kos wrote:Erhhh... my music is stored on a NAS. I stream from the NAS to the clients around my appartment by the means of Twonky (see below). Both clients (UPnP like Twonky) are controlled with a remote.
Only when I get new music or edit what I already got I use MM and let Twonky rescan. The rest of the time I just stream and stream and stream with NO pc turned on.
Kos
So how exactly are you using MM? It seems to me you are just creating a second database... i.e Twonky is just scanning your music after you have used MM to organize your files.... and then you are just choosing your music from that Twonky DB (i.e the Twonky Server). How is MM really doing anything?
At the moment, my system really isn't any different (except I my Computer is the server rather than a NAS). But Twonky's own DB is limited, and it breaks down with my library (which is only at around 15,000 tracks).
MM's library shows no hick-ups and allows for a lot more customization that would be nice if it could serve my upnp system. Not only that, but it would save having to have a second database, one of which seems to require a rebuild more frequently than it should. Twonky can't even handle MM playlists, which end up needing export, and for autoplaylists, the server just crashes.
Ultimately, this is less than perfect.
[quote="Kos"]Erhhh... my music is stored on a NAS. I stream from the NAS to the clients around my appartment by the means of Twonky (see below). Both clients (UPnP like Twonky) are controlled with a remote.
Only when I get new music or edit what I already got I use MM and let Twonky rescan. The rest of the time I just stream and stream and stream with NO pc turned on.
Kos[/quote]
So how exactly are you using MM? It seems to me you are just creating a second database... i.e Twonky is just scanning your music after you have used MM to organize your files.... and then you are just choosing your music from that Twonky DB (i.e the Twonky Server). How is MM really doing anything?
At the moment, my system really isn't any different (except I my Computer is the server rather than a NAS). But Twonky's own DB is limited, and it breaks down with my library (which is only at around 15,000 tracks).
MM's library shows no hick-ups and allows for a lot more customization that would be nice if it could serve my upnp system. Not only that, but it would save having to have a second database, one of which seems to require a rebuild more frequently than it should. Twonky can't even handle MM playlists, which end up needing export, and for autoplaylists, the server just crashes.
Ultimately, this is less than perfect.