Accessing a pi NAS

[Anglepen]

I have a rasp pi running Volumio that I have set up as a NAS running mini DLNA plugin so I can share my 1tb ssd drive to my Wiim pro plus.
Now all is fine and the Wiim sees and reads the drive just fine, but when I click to play an album it just skips through each track in a second and fails to play anything?!
Any ideas what’s going wrong?

 

[Brantome]

What format are the files? Have you set any transcoding on the dlna server?

 

[Anglepen]

They are all Flac files, volumio reads them perfectly, not sure what you
Mean about transcoding?

 

[simbun]

What happens if you use BubbleUPnP/mconnect to play to the WiiM?

 

[Brantome]

They are all Flac files, volumio reads them perfectly, not sure what you
Mean about transcoding?

Transcoding is converting from one format to another, but flac should be fine. How are your files named, and can you play them ok from apps like BubbleUPNP or mConnect?

 

[Anglepen]

I’ve never used/know how to play with bubble or m connect?!

 

[Anglepen]

Just tried with m connect and it won’t play th files either, sends an error response

 

[simbun]

What's the error message?

 

[Anglepen]

 

[simbun]

Can you successfully use mconnect to play to any other DLNA/UPnP speakers, or even locally to the phone?

 

[simbun]

Does that screenshot indicate that you're using AirPlay rather than DLNA?
In the PlayTo section is there another WiiM device with an image that looks a bit like a set of headphones? It should be under UPnP devices.

 

[Anglepen]

They are my options on mconnect, it loads the file but will not play

 

[simbun]

They are my options on mconnect, it loads the file but will not play



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In the Play to section, you should see the local player at the top then a UPnP devices section.

Try playing to both (not at the same time).

 

[Anglepen]

Both load the file but refuse to play. Maybe my files are all corrupt? But volumio still plays them just fine.

 

[simbun]

Does Volumio appear under UPnP devices in mconnect, and does it play?

 

[Anglepen]

It appears, and loads but doesn’t play, no error messages but the track never budges from zero, it can see all my artists and albums.

 

[simbun]

It sounds like it could be a permissions problem (the metadata is delivered differently). An easy way to test would be to curl one of the URLs, but I don't know how to get the URLs of the streams from mconnect.
I take it you don't have any other UPnP devices?
What permissions do you have set on your music files and folders? Did you have to provide Volumio with a user id to your files?

 

[d6jg]

It is going to be permissions for sure. When the WiiM tries to read the files it is connecting as a guest so you will need to ensure that you give everyone including guest (unauthenticated user) read access.

 

[Anglepen]

Huzzah!! It’s sorted! There was a setting in the setup of the dnla extension in volumio called ‘wide links’ enabling this has fixed my problem!!
I would like to thank everyone that helped me painstakingly this morning.
Great family.

 

[simbun]

It is going to be permissions for sure. When the WiiM tries to read the files it is connecting as a guest so you will need to ensure that you give everyone including guest (unauthenticated user) read access.

The files are being served over http so you don't need to open up everything at the OS level. The only reason I was thinking permissions is because it's working for Volumio itself (accessing directly) but not for anything over http.