[mythtv-users] uPnP Music in 0.27.3 - cannot read file (fixed?)

[John Pilkington]

On 09/07/14 07:46, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 08/07/14 23:34, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
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>> On Wednesday, July 9, 2014, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net
>> <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>> wrote:
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>>         Scan for new music
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>>         No need to 'Select Music' for upnp; menu shows them all
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>>         For playback in frontend, need to tick boxes in 'Select music'
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>> Just tried it on my Sony Bravia , music plays just fine against 0.27.3
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>
> ... so maybe it's part of the #9446 'fix for Sony' package.  I'm about
> to go off-line again.
>

Hi again.  I'm back home with my laptop after a few days served by a 
different transmitter and with uPnP via a 'link-local' cable (no router, 
no internet).

My 'Sony' suggestion was made without sufficient thought.  It didn't fit 
the observations I had.  But now I have a new one:

'Music' files play via uPnP in 0.27.3 _if_ they have been 'Imported' 
into the subdirectory structure created and used by MythMusic within the 
directory allocated to it during frontend setup.  The 'Import' tool is 
at Frontend Setup > Media Settings >  Music Tools

This is something that wasn't previously needed, at least for playback 
of content, in setting up for uPnP playback of Videos and Music. If I 
had noticed it at all, I had thought its primary purpose was to retain 
links between the file and its metadata, and I had just dropped the file 
into the configured directory and 'Scanned for Changes'.  That no longer 
works for 'music'.  Perhaps a pop-up warning might be appropriate.

Two other points about uPnP 'music'

The 'Import' tool doesn't recognise mp2-encoded files with an .mp2 
suffix.  Simply renaming to .mp3 seems to work fine.  I suppose there 
may be a 'setting' that would do the same.

During playback I see a static picture which is, I suspect, provided by 
Panasonic, with a data overlay that includes file duration but not 
current position.  With 'Videos' the duration is always shown as zero.

Thanks for other comments. I'll think about them...

John