[mythtv-users] uPnP Music in 0.27.3 - cannot read file

[John Pilkington]

On 08/07/14 17:15, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 08/07/14 16:49, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 9, 2014, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net
>> <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Konqueror suggested opening it with vlc, and it plays.  Trying the
>>     same with the 0.27.3 urls tells me that the file or folder does not
>>     exist.

I should have given more info here.  I gave Konqueror the url from 
0.24.3. It said it couldn't open it and offered various options, one of 
which was vlc.  I use vlc often to play mp2 files stripped out from 
DVB-T radio programmes, so I chose to let Konq try to open it with vlc, 
and the 'music' file played.

vlc (2.0.10) also sees the Myth Media Servers from both boxes at

View > Playlist > Local Network > Universal Plug'n'Play,

but it gives no info about the content available, and on myth 0.24.3 the 
polling process created quite a high cpu load.  I have seen this route 
work occasionally in the past, but never reliably with any of the 
myth/vlc version combinations that I have tried.

>>
>>
>> How did you configure myth music and the files location ?
>>
>
> Frontend setup > Media settings > Music settings > General settings >
> Directory to hold music > /home/john/Musictest
>
> [john at PresV5000 ~]$ ls -l /home/john/Musictest
> total 80972
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 john john 27537315 Jun 10 20:25 britainsea_20140606-2159a.mp3
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 john john 55375449 Jun 17 13:15 swallows1.mp3
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 john john       40 Jul  8 12:22 test.mp3 ->
> /home/john/Music/1704_20140613195600.mp2
>
> Scan for new music
>
> No need to 'Select Music' for upnp; menu shows them all
>
> For playback in frontend, need to tick boxes in 'Select music'