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Album Covers not showing; only Moode default
#11
@jjasniew

The short-answer aka solution

Serve the folders on your USB drive using your router's "ReadySHARE USB Storage Access." From the Netgear support material online, this appears to be their silly marketing name for a Samba service.

Alternatively, enable the FTP service on your router and serve the folders on your USB drive using it.

Either service works very well with moOde.

The long answer aka work-in-process:

AFAIK, Netgear's "ReadyDLNA Media Server" is their marketing name for ReadyMedia which, in turn, is the new name of miniDLNA.

As it happens, moOde uses miniDLNA for its DLNA media server. However, rather than muddy the water with it, I chose to set up a miniDLNA server on a separate Linux box and seed it with just a few albums. One album folder contains its cover art only in a Folder.jpg file. There is no embedded artwork in the FLAC tracks in the folder. The other album folder contains its cover art both in a Folder.jpg file and embedded in each FLAC track.

I enabled the DLNA Media Browser function in a moOde player and then created a UPnP Music Source in Library config, updated the Library, etc., and looked at the Library view.

I could mostly repro your issue with this setup. I did not see a thumbnail for either album nor a full-sized cover for the album with only a Folder.jpg file. I did see a full-sized cover for the album with cover art also embedded in the individual tracks. I also saw spurious behavior (which I hinted at in a previous post). I have an inkling of what is going on but it's early days yet.

I need to figure out a concise way to characterize what is going on with UPnP/DLNA sources and moOde before I can post an issue to the moOde github repo.

As an aside, using apps such as mConnect Lite app and BubbleDS on my phone, I can browser this miniDLNA media server and see the cover art for both albums and for all their tracks. Consequently, I don't believe I've misconfigured the test server.
 
Regards,
Kent
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#12
For what it is worth, I have my music served over DLNA from my NAS by minimserver (which I like because of it's flexibility) and it was originally my intention to simply mount this into moOde as my library so I got the benefits of minim's organisation with moOde as a player. I gave up on that and simply mount the NAS directly now using moOde as the library simply because moOde had erratic issues with album art, and never seemed to be able to see the whole DLNA library at once. When I run into frustrations with the way moOde organises the library, I swap to the browsing the minim library with BubbleUPNP and control moOde that way.
So that's at least two instances of different DLNA servers that moOde has bother reading.
I'm happy to run tests and capture logs from my set up should they provide useful info.
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#13
As a complete newcomer to NAS storage I was guided by Kent's promotion of OMV..
https://www.openmediavault.org/

This has been a joy to set up and administer...couldn't have been easier !

I bought an HP thin client (4GB Ram/16 GB Flash)  (Used US $23.00) and connected a WD external drive.
https://www8.hp.com/us/en/thin-clients/rd-poc/t520.html

Gave it a reserved IP address and shared a folder with Moode using Samba and all has been Solid, stable and a breeze to add and modify library items.

Then I had beets re-tag my Library and Moode sees and catalogues my music perfectly.
http://beets.io/

A bit of learning needed but I now (1 month later) feel in charge  and comfortable with how it all just works. Smile

Thanks Kent !

Cheers all,
Bob
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#14
Just an FYI that I created a new moOde Issue "DLNA Media Browser mischief" #147.

I'll be posting another, related issue to the repo when I get some time later. (Sorry, but our cat, aka She who must be obeyed, needs me to go pick up some supplies.)

Regards,
Kent
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#15
Thanks for all the interest!

I can try enabling the FTP on the R6300...

FWIW, I received the 16GB cards and tried a "Volumio" product on one of them. So far, it's flakier than a bedbug - behaves different everytime I turn it on, sometimes seeing the R6300 readyshare all on its own as if by magic, other times nothin'. It also doesnt actually play music through my AMP2 "out of the box", though I do have "HIfiBerry Amp" selected. ALSA soft volume error, etc.

What it did do - at least for a fleeting moment - was display all the album cover art from my R6300 readyshare drive. How it did this - once - and never again is beyond me. But I saw it, I swear - maybe the 16GB cards I got are all flakes...

So I know it CAN happen through the R6300 connection channel. Thanks!
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#16
@TheOldPresbyope

>Alternatively, enable the FTP service on your router and serve the folders on your USB drive using it.

>Either service works very well with moOde.

So, enabling the FTP service was easy enough - just a checkbox with a corresponding http://ftp.readyshare.routerlogin.net/shares path.

When you say "Either service" I cant for the life of me figure out how to plug in http://ftp.readyshare.routerlogin.net/shares into Moode. A quick search and everyone want to ftp FROM Moode to their Windows system; I want to ftp FROM R6300 into Moode. In the library setup, there's no straightforward "ftp" choice. How would I do so? Thanks!

Joe
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#17
Oy, veh. I apologize. My brain was thinking NFS but my fingers typed FTP.

Why not try the Samba service?
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#18
(07-09-2020, 09:12 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: Oy, veh. I apologize. My brain was thinking NFS but my fingers typed FTP.

Why not try the Samba service?

Oh, I've got the R6300 "samba" service connected and running - just no album covers like that other player can do.  From my experience Moode is more stable - though it somehow remembers at least one entry I made - before I reflashed the microSD and started from scratch! How could it remember an entry like login name from a previous SD card flash?
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#19
(07-10-2020, 04:04 AM)jjasniew Wrote:
(07-09-2020, 09:12 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: Oy, veh. I apologize. My brain was thinking NFS but my fingers typed FTP.

Why not try the Samba service?

Oh, I've got the R6300 "samba" service connected and running - just no album covers like that other player can do.  From my experience Moode is more stable - though it somehow remembers at least one entry I made - before I reflashed the microSD and started from scratch! How could it remember an entry like login name from a previous SD card flash?


It's your web browser which is caching entries. 

As for the album covers, I don't understand why you don't get them if you're using the router as a SAMBA server and not as a UPnP/DLNA server. On my players, tracks and cover art on local USB drives and on SAMBA or NFS servers work, period. (Assuming, of course, that tracks are properly tagged and cover files, if any, are correctly named and in the right directories, but that's not a server problem).

A simple test that you're now using the SAMBA service is to look at the listall.sh output. If the file paths start with "NAS/" then it's SAMBA (same for an NFS server). If the file paths start with "UPNP/" then it's still UPnP/DLNA. We've already established that using a UPnP/DLNA server is problematic.

I don't own any Netgear products so I can't try to reproduce your result. Given the complete lack of technical detail in their documentation, I'm not going to attempt to second guess what's going on under the hood. 

Regards,
Kent
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#20
Quite by chance, Yesterday !, I stumbled upon a 'yard-sale' (you call them there...here they are 'Garage-Sales' Smile ) and picked up a Netgear R7000 router for peanuts. (O.K. US$ 7.00 Shy )  and thought to try the Readyshare Samba access using a USB flash-drive and see if I could reproduce your troubles.

The manuals and setup for your R6300V2 and the R7000 are close enough in their configuration and setup for Moode.

I set a Samba share in Moode for a USB drive plugged into the R7000 and did a library update.
All went well and I can select and play tracks from the USB flash-drive on the Netgear R7000.

All of the tracks selected show the album art... Smile 

....we may conclude that Moode is not at fault here and that your share or tagging is the problem... Dodgy

I am happy to exchange configurations if you want to follow this up.. Smile

https://kb.netgear.com/18985/Will-my-USB...ReadySHARE

Do update your firmware....(advisories PSV-2020-0001, 0009, 0108, 0118, 0119)
https://kb.netgear.com/000061982/Securit...-Extenders
https://threatpost.com/netgear-zero-day-...rs/156744/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/unpatched-...er-models/

Best,
Bob.
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