NAS to store music

[Eni]

Hi guys! If any of you use a Synology NAS to store music and play it on a Wiim, could you please provide a screenshot of the Wiim Home app. Could you tell me what the album folders look like? Does this differ depending on how the flash drive is connected? Are there any limitations to the file format that can be transferred from the Synology NAS to the Wiim? Thank you, and please excuse my English; I'm using a translator.

 

[Kees]

Second screenshot is a mp3 file, third a flac file.

 

[Kees]

Edit: Thanks to forum member huw the "FLAC problem" is solved, all music in Playing Now is displayed as in screenshot 2.

 

[simbun]

Edit: Thanks to forum member huw the "FLAC problem" is solved, all music in Playing Now is displayed as in screenshot 2.

Are you using the iOS WiiM Home App (WHA)?

All metadata (Album, Title, Artist etc) should be as provided by the server, not sourced from the files, so this appears to be a bug in the iOS WHA. I raised a ticket about this last August but apparently they only fixed it in the Android WHA.

This affects transcoded streams (where there is no file metadata) and servers that allow you to customise the values sent to the WHA e.g. I've configured MinimServer to send ALBUM as:

$OriginalReleaseDate - $Album ($Version) [$RemasterDate]

but if the WHA pulls ALBUM from the file then the customisation is lost.

 

[Kees]

Are you using the iOS WiiM Home App (WHA)?

All metadata (Album, Title, Artist etc) should be as provided by the server, not sourced from the files, so this appears to be a bug in the iOS WHA. I raised a ticket about this last August but apparently they only fixed it in the Android WHA.

I am using Android.
Solution was a setting in Mediaserver on the Synology NAS, disabling transcoding for FLAC.

 

[simbun]

I am using Android.
Solution was a setting in Mediaserver on the Synology NAS, disabling transcoding for FLAC.

Ok, then the bug lies with Media Server and disabling transcoding is a workaround, as the metadata used on the Now Playing screen comes from the track listing, which doesn't depend on how the audio is streamed.

As a quick test I configured MinimServer to transcode to WAV - so the served file lacked metadata - and it made no difference to the display, as expected. Maybe I'll try to install Synology on VMware again.

 

[huw]

I raised a ticket about this last August but apparently they only fixed it in the Android WHA.

Thanks - I wasn't sure if this had been fixed - I can't edit my other post so I'll post a reply to that thread!

 

[simbun]

Thanks - I wasn't sure if this had been fixed

I can't vouch for the iOS app or the tiny hardware screens but the Android app is certainly fixed.