Beosound 5 Encore and LG N1A1 NAS

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pathatchelt (archived)
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Posted October 29, 2011 at 15:05 GMT
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Hi, as the proud owner of a new BS5 Encore (and 8000 speakers) I'm having a great time playing with the unit and trying everything out. However (there's always a "however" isn't there?), trying to connect to my LG NAS N1A1 is proving problematic. The BS5 "sees" the LG NAS but can't access the music files in Shared/Multimedia/Music - which is where I understand DLNA expects the music files to be. I have a suspicion that the NAS requires a username and password to log into it - if I try to access the above folder from a Windows laptop I have to enter the username and password. My understanding was that by putting the music in Shared/Multimedia/Music I would bypass this login issue. Anyone got any any tips or ideas on how i might crack this?

Many thanks 

Pat

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hfat (archived)
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Posted October 29, 2011 at 23:27 GMT
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Hi,

Did you activate the multimedia services on your NAS? BS3 connects to a DLNA server not to a folder as you do from your laptop.

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pathatchelt (archived)
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Posted October 30, 2011 at 04:58 GMT
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Hi,

Yes, I've enabled DLNA on the LG-NAS. When I spoke to tech support at LG the chap mentioned that I should use Share/Multimedia/Music because that's where DLNA expected the files to be - apparently it's the same on the PS3. So I'm fairly confident that the LG-NAS is broadcasting as a DLNA server.

 

Thanks

Pat

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hfat (archived)
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Posted October 30, 2011 at 14:37 GMT
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If you have a Windows 7 PC, you could check using Windows Explorer/Media Player. It should discover the DLNA server on the LG NAS.

hfat

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pathatchelt (archived)
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Posted November 14, 2011 at 05:55 GMT
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Yep, definitely shows uo under Media Player - which suggests the problem is with the B&O. 

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StUrrock (archived)
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Posted November 14, 2011 at 07:03 GMT
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Hi

Did your dealer try to help you?

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pathatchelt (archived)
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Posted November 14, 2011 at 08:21 GMT
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Yep, he sent his network guy out - to no avail unfortunately. I've actually ordered another NAS - A QNAP - so I'll have a go with that. Thanks.

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pathatchelt (archived)
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Posted November 19, 2011 at 04:19 GMT
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Now received the QNAP TS-201, set it up as RAID1, moved music files onto it and BINGO! The BS5 Encore sees it and plays the music. The TS-201 does have bulit-in Twonky Media Server though and that seems to being doing the work rather than it being seen via DLNA. Never mind - I can stream music to the B&O and that's what matters.

Thanks for the suggestions - appreciated.

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symmes (archived)
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Posted November 19, 2011 at 07:16 GMT
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pathatchelt wrote:

Now received the QNAP TS-201, set it up as RAID1, moved music files onto it and BINGO! The BS5 Encore sees it and plays the music. The TS-201 does have bulit-in Twonky Media Server though and that seems to being doing the work rather than it being seen via DLNA. Never mind - I can stream music to the B&O and that's what matters.

Thanks for the suggestions - appreciated.

I was told adding Townky Media Server is the key to getting any NAS to work reliably with Encore.  Anyone know how to do that.....Carolpa, are you out there?

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carolpa
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Posted November 19, 2011 at 09:27 GMT
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strickly speaking other sw also works with the BS5e; f.e. the Windows Media Player, iTunes, Plex and XBMC.

I have Twonky installed on my NAS because the DLNA server of the NAS didn't always displayed covers.

 

How to install Twonky on your NAS. this depends strongly on your NAS. For some type Synology/Netgear/QNAP you can download a package to install (see forums, sites). This is handled directly through the setup sw of the NAS.

For others it is directly installing on the NAS using SSH or Putty (on respectively Mac or PC). Because most NAS's work on Linux, some knowlegde of Linux is adviced and also the courage to do it.

 

for Twonky-NAS software see: http://www.twonkyforum.com/downloads/6.0.37/

 

 

TIP: do you have an old PC:  install Ubuntu on it (it's for free) and install Twonky (it's licenced thus not for free), add additional storage and you have a smooth running NAS 

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