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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: robertmark68 on September 22, 2009, 11:07:43 AM
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Hello all you D-link users and aficionados.
I have had my -323 for going on 3 years now and for the most part i love it.
I am using the latest released firmware 1.06. My OS'es are XP and Windows 7 RTM.
I have an issue that I am at a loss to explain or to fix and i am hoping that MAYBE some here has had the same problem or knows enough about this stuff to point me in the right direction to a solution.
I have 2 - 1 TB drives in the 323.
I have created a folder on Volume One and dumped ALL of my MP3's there. They are sorted by into folders by artist and then by album name. I would say there are no less than 20,000 mp3's in this folder.
Now I have made the folder a available to ALL so any machine on my home network can connect to this folder on the 323 and have access to all the MP3's.
Ideally I want to be able to POINT M$ Media Player to the folder in question and have it add the MP3's to the library on the local machine.
The problem is that no matter what I do neither M$ Media Player NOR my M$ Media Center will SEE all the MP3's in that folder. It only sees a percentage of them. This is REALLY pissing me off because it just seems so ridiculously arbitrary. >:(
What adds to my consternation is that I have hundreds of DVD rips in another folder that my Media Center sees just fine.
One of the obvious things to try is to MOVE all the MP3's to a hard-drive on a local machine and see if the same thing happens BUT
A - I don't think I have a local drive that has the free capacity.. (hello!? that's why i have the -323)
B - I just don't wanna! :P
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Thanks in advance
Robert
Otter River, MA
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Windows Media Player (WMP) - at least for WinXP SP3 - uses the metadata from the media file. Use a Tag Editing utility (ex: TagScanner) to look at the metadata of a file that does not appear in WMP. I suspect the metadata (ID3Tag) information will likely be missing.
I currently use WMP on all of my workstations; I add a shared folder from the DNS-### to the WMP Monitor Folders list ... it's been working fine for 80K+ tracks. I created a 'Read Only' shared folder so as to ensure that WMP could not change the metadata information on my audio tracks as I have already properly catalogued each track using the above mentioned utility. To give you an idea of what I mean:
\\DNS-###\Audio
.\Audio\eBooks
.\Audio\Albums
.\Audio\Compilations
.\Audio\Soundtracks
.\Audio\Albums\A
.\Audio\Albums\A\ABBA
.\Audio\Albums\A\ABBA\The Complete Singles Collection
.\Audio\Albums\A\ABBA\The Complete Singles Collection\Disc 1
HTH,
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Thanks for replying....
I am doing something VERY similar to you.
Do you suppose there is some character length limit for the path that I might be butting up against?
Robert
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It's possible ... haven't experienced it at all with my current format.
That said, I do keep my folder and file names below 42 characters - to satisfy XBMC for XBOX requirements.
Only characters I use are:
a-z A-Z 0-9 ' ) ( -
... again, for XBMC for XBOX compatibility.
HTH,