WMP 11 / Vista as client does not see custom folder tree ?

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WMP 11 / Vista as client does not see custom folder tree ?

Post by w8rn8r » Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:35 pm

My LinkStation Mini has a customer folder tree set up. When I connect from WMP 11 on Vista, it doesn't see that - instead, it seems to see kind of a default structure. Why would that be so - is "Windows Media Connect" getting in the way somehow ?

In addition, it seems that WMP only sees a subset of all titles - many albums and titles appear to not be found.
What would cause this ?

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Re: WMP 11 / Vista as client does not see custom folder tree

Post by thethux » Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:13 pm

Hi,
have you got a solution for this ?
Got the same problem with WMP12 / Win7
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Re: WMP 11 / Vista as client does not see custom folder tree

Post by Twonky_Rick » Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:35 pm

If you can see your songs/albums on the Twonky media browser pages then we are serving them to clients on your network. Sounds like WMP might be filtering things. I don't see how we could fix that on the server side. Seems like a question for the WMP guys to me. If you try TwonkyManager, I'm sure you'll see everything.

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Re: WMP 11 / Vista as client does not see custom folder tree

Post by w8rn8r » Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:07 am

For all of the three UPnP servers on my home network, I have specific / different custom navigation trees set up. All of my "hardware" type UPnP clients (including a couple NOXON devices and a WD TV streaming media player) will see these ok. WMP displays the same navigation tree for all three servers, so I have to agree it's a WMP thing; it appears to impose its own view.

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Re: WMP 11 / Vista as client does not see custom folder tree

Post by thethux » Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:12 pm

All songs/albums appear on the Twonky media browser pages, and it works great with my DLNA-Clients (Onkyo Receiver and Samsung TV), only the WMP has this problem. (I want to use the play-to extension).

I´ve tried different configurations on the Twonky media end-device page for the WMP, but WMP doesn´t take notice of this :?

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