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Ordering a Licence for JRiver on a QNAP NAS
JimH:
If you post your license, it will be revoked.
fataxeman:
I believe you are saying that if I post my license number or key it will be revoked. That was stupidity on my part. I should have known better than to put that information in my post. Just tired and frustrated I guess.
As of last night, JRiver Media Center 21 was still working on the NAS but definitely has issues. Don't know if it's a JRiver or QNAP issue (or a little bit of both). I will not go into what happened when I copied about 538 gb of data from my 1 TB external to the QNAP drives (it wasn't pretty) but do want to explain what has transpired since the data was copied.
When looking at the QNAP drives, much of the art work was missing. For intstance, my Aerosmith folder had cover art missing for 3 albums. I clicked "Get from Internet", picked the "best" version and saved it. I continued doing this for the rest of the missing art work. I was just going in A-Z order, so no telling how much was missing because I only made it to letter "C".
I back-tracked a bit and noticed some of the artwork I had "replaced" was gone again. For the 3 Aerosmith titles and maybe have a dozen more titles, I got the artwork again. It disappeared a 2nd and3rd time. I also noticed that much of the artwork looked bad. I started noticing that much of my "Your artwork on server" was 15 kb, 17 kb, 22 kb, 29 kb...extremely low resolution. Most all of my artwork is 500 x 500 and much bigger files/higher resolution. It almost seemed that during/after the data copy that all of the cover art has been down res'd drastically. After noticing that the cover art I replaced had, in some cases, disappeared 3 times, I began thinking that the the "low res" cover art I fixed had once again gone "low res." I can't prove this because I didn't do any actual testing. I'm also not sure, but I closed JRiver MC at least once and maybe twice during all this.
I did not expect the QNAP build to have all the bells and whistles of the Windows version of JRiver (I'm not a power user by any measure) but I expected the basic functionality to be in place. I don't know if I ran a Windows VM on the NAS if the results would be any better (and, once again, I am a brand new NAS user) but please advise if there is any way to "fix" this. Whether that is settings I need to confirm or buy a Master License, etc., I am willing to do whatever. I have the NAS now and there is no turning back. At this point, all I want to do is Audio with flac files and high quality cover art. I do not have any playlists, etc. Also, I don't believe Theater view etc. is working on the QNAP build.
Thanks!
Charles Cannon
bob:
For my system at home I store the cover art in the file tags so it moves along with the files when I move them from one system to another.
Alternately you could tell MC to store the cover art along with the music as a folder.jpg if you don't like having it in the tags.
The reason I do this is that I've pulled some hires cover art and a few obscure ones from other sources than YADB and since I rearrange the tags (for classical) it can't be found.
Theater view hasn't been ported to linux MC yet (it requires OpenGL support) which is why it's not on the QNAP yet.
fataxeman:
Hi bob,
Thank you for the update. I believe a friend of mine is doing what you mention with the folder.jpg. I still don't have a clue as to why cover art that I have saved is disappearing. It rarely has in the Windows environment. Perhaps you are saying that I must use one or the other of your solutions to ensure that cover art behaves properly in the QNAP world.
Do I need to purchase a Master license to make JRiver MediaCenter 21 behave "better" on this NAS system.
I'm very frustrated at this point and tonight have not even been able to find JRiver (or Chrome) for that matter. I did do a firmware update. I have disabled (and then enabled) Chrome, YouTube and JRiver and cannot find any of them. Next, I guess I'll remove the apps, hoping there is a reinstall option at that point.
Thanks,
Charles
bob:
--- Quote from: fataxeman on June 06, 2016, 09:48:03 pm ---Hi bob,
Thank you for the update. I believe a friend of mine is doing what you mention with the folder.jpg. I still don't have a clue as to why cover art that I have saved is disappearing. It rarely has in the Windows environment. Perhaps you are saying that I must use one or the other of your solutions to ensure that cover art behaves properly in the QNAP world.
Do I need to purchase a Master license to make JRiver MediaCenter 21 behave "better" on this NAS system.
I'm very frustrated at this point and tonight have not even been able to find JRiver (or Chrome) for that matter. I did do a firmware update. I have disabled (and then enabled) Chrome, YouTube and JRiver and cannot find any of them. Next, I guess I'll remove the apps, hoping there is a reinstall option at that point.
Thanks,
Charles
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It depends on where your cover art is being stored in the Windows install. It's probably not in the tags or it would just show up on the QNAP. It's probably not in the folders along with the music either since they'd just get picked up when you copied the music folders. I suspect they are in a separate cover art directory on your windows install.
A MC 21 linux or master license will currently work with the QNAP. When the update goes live on the QNAP server you will be able to use a MC 22 linux or master license as well.
The update will also call the chrome browser properly but note that the chrome browser is NOT needed to make MC work on the QNAP.
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