Updating Twonky Server (only?)

[Russandy]

Hi- Last year, I purchased & installed Twonky Manager [3.1.0 (55)] which was also accompanied by Twonky Server [7.2.2], and both have been functioning just great. I see that Twonky Server version 7.3 is available from the downloads page, and I would like to update. The download page indicates the following: "Note: Before installing Twonky Manager 3 or Twonky Server 7, you will need to uninstall any previous versions of these products you have installed."

Therefore, to update my Twonky Server installation, do I need to download the Twonky Manager software again as it also contains, I suspect, the [newest version of] Twonky Server software? Or, do I need to simply download the new Twonky Server software only? My Windows Control Panel Uninstall Program window contains entries for Twonky Windows Components and TwonkyManager, but it contains no [separate] entry for Twonky Server. Exactly which items do I need to uninstall and what, then, is the recommended best procedure to do so? If I only need to download and install the newest Twonky Server software only, how would I go about uninstalling *only* the existing TS software inasmuch as there is no direct uninstall mechanism on my pc for the server end of it alone?

I know they are silly questions, but thanks a bunch anyway.

[phibertron]

As I understand it
If a newer version of twonky server is released that is newer than the one in the current twonky manager
one can download and install the newer standalone version of twonky server on top of the currently installed one
that was installed with twonky manager
you should not have to uninstall anything, as it should take of the server parts

[Russandy]

Thank you, Phibertron, I'll give it a whirl then .

[phibertron]

I verified that this works

first I installed TwonkyManagerStandardSetup-3.1.exe
which installed TwonkyServer 7.2.2

then I then installed TwonkyServer-7.3.exe
which after agreeing the license will prompt you
to either preserve previous settings or do a clean install
I chose preserve previous settings

after that everything should operate as normal
though the web interface on 7.3 is different than previous versions
as it has more control point functionality

also,
now that you have installed twonky server
you will now see it as something that can be removed from the add remove programs
should you need to upgrade at a later time
you only need to start the install the installer takes care of the uninstall

[Russandy]

Hi Phibertron,

Thanks again...much appreciated!

Now that I have v7.3 successfully up and running, I have tried to resolve the following condition:

I am trying to get Twonky Server to sort music tracks by the respective album's track number (just as it does for Genre/Artist/Album view) rather than by alphabetical order when using the Folder view.

To that end, I made the following change to the view-definitions.xml file:

Originally:

<container name='byfolder' id='music/folders' class='object.container.storageFolder' createClass='object.item.audioItem.musicTrack'>
<container buildon='res' albumart='1' createClass='object.item.audioItem.musicTrack' class='object.container.storageFolder' />
</container>

My modification:

<container name='byfolder' id='music/folders' class='object.container.storageFolder' createClass='object.item.audioItem.musicTrack'>
<container buildon='res' albumart='1' sortcriteria='+pv:numberOfThisDisc,+upnp:originalTrackNumber' createClass='object.item.audioItem.musicTrack' class='object.container.storageFolder' />
</container>

However, this did not work. Any thoughts as to why the change was ineffective?

Thanks a bunch.

[phibertron]

your welcome

you'll have to do a database rebuild for the sorting changes to take effect in the navtree
you can do this with an rpc call, as there is no rebuild button in the web interface

Code: Select all

http://x.x.x.x:9000/rpc/rebuild

[Russandy]

Thanks so very much, Phibertron, that worked like a charm!

[phibertron]

Excellent, glad to hear that it all worked it out