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[robertmark68]

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! 

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Thanks in advance
Robert
Otter River, MA

[hilaireg]

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,

[robertmark68]

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

[hilaireg]

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,