Heos app user guide11/19/2022 ![]() ![]() I am thinking about installing MinimServer ( ) on the QNAP to see if it will give me the functionality I want. I am new to NAS, only had mine for less than a year, but am not new to having a ton of music and wanting it to be organized/findable. I've got about 12k song library on my NAS and am always acquiring new music, so the recommendations from other internet sources of "get an external HDD, copy your music, and plug it into your Denon" is not something I'm going to do. This should at least confirm that your HEOS side is all good. Then go into HEOS and use Music Servers->MediaMonkey Library ( your PC name) and you should be able to surf your library by Artists, Albums, etc. You said you are a MediaMonkey Gold user, so if you are still trying to confirm that your HEOS setup will at least ping a server and play the music, use the Tools->Options->Media Sharing (UPnP/DLNA) in the Monkey to run your library as a server from a PC. I believe that using an alternate media server on the NAS will solve this but I have not had time to confirm. It's not ideal, as albums will not play in track order but alphabetical. Have you gotten somewhere at least? The key in HEOS is to use the Music Servers->Server Name->Browse Folders. Like maybe it's not quite DLNA compliant, a bug or something. I think (but do not know enough about DLNA) that the DLNA stream from the default QNAP media server function is "DLNA compliant" but is not sending the messages in whatever format HEOS expects. I saw another thread where someone was looking for DLNA recommendations, and you mentioned struggling with HEOS playing QNAP NAS via DLNA. Majority of my collection is CD rips from back when MediaMonkey could ping Amazon and other sites. Note that bliss does also have an option for installation on a QNAP (or Synology) NAS, but I did not play with that at all, as I am content enough with my files to not need to use it at this point. The software will still find the 'non-compliant' albums, but I just didn't like what some 'fixes' it made were. If you test it out, I HIGHLY recommend using the "manual" option to actually apply the fixes. The bliss site will let you test like 200 "fixes" for free. I bought a 2500 fix license for my SO's music collection and fixed her files up pretty well and with a LOT LESS TIME invested. but there is a web-based software called bliss ( ) that I messed with this year, and if you can afford to buy it I felt it was worth it. I played around with the options on a copy of some music folders before running it on larger datasets, but I was able to get things cleaned up enough to quit messing with it. AlbumArtTagger was finicky and not explained well. I haven't messed with that add on, or any really, in a bit. Per memory, it was not the easiest or as streamlined as I wished it was going to be when I started the endeavor. I will try to play a few files from iPad this evening to see what happens, have never actually done it. which of course are not supported *sigh* on my system. I also had to get file formats into supported type for the whole collection, as I had some WMA Lossless. But things are much smoother since I did. With a large collection it was tedious, even as a MediaMonkey Gold user, to fix this. Some albums I had cover art that exceeded this, and some not, which is why I had seemingly random issues when playing from QNAP NAS. I found it odd and frustrating that there is a note on page 140 of the user guide for the CR612 that says: "If the image size (pixels) of an album artwork exceeds 500 × 500 (WMA/MP3/WAV/FLAC) or 349 × 349 (MPEG-4 AAC), then music may not be played back properly." Bingo. I had HEOS skipping/blipping and throwing error codes seemingly at random when playing from a QNAP NAS until I consulted the user manual for my system (Marantz M-CR612) and found the "supported files" table. ![]()
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