I thought a follow up was in order.
First of all, this product is FAR superior to the Tivo Desktop software. And as previously mentioned you guys ROCK!!
I downloaded and installed 9.0.144 last night. I see there is a 145 available so some of these issues might be solved.
I did have some trouble getting the media server to work. After installation (before rebooting), it started okay. Then after the first reboot, I got the "failed to bind" error message. After checking to make sure something else wasn't using that port (nothing was) I rebooted again and it worked fine. Several reboots and it's still working okay. Frustrating and strange, but no big deal since it's working now.
I also had to put in the IP address of the media server for Tivo to find it. Once it did, it seemed to work okay. It shows the IP address when I go into the Music & Photos menu on the TIVO then it flashes "please wait" and a couple seconds later it shows "Computername Music" & "Computername Photos" etc..
Music playback worked great. I did notice however that changes I made to the library (playlists, tag info etc...) didn't show up on TIVO until I stopped and restarted the media server. I don't suppose there is anyway around this? Once I stopped and restarted the server, those changes I made showed up right away.
I did have some issues with image playback. I created a view based on filename and pointed it to my images folder. This showed up fine. I didn't try any other views from Tivo, but they did show up.
The larger pictures I had (1600 pixels & wider) appeared to have black lines on the sides and they took FOREVER to load. Okay, not forever, but about 3 seconds each. Is this a function of the media server? or Tivo? I noticed on the Tivo Desktop software they had a cache file that was quite full when I removed the software (after only one day) I'm not sure what this was for, but the image playback in the TIVO software was much quicker than in media server. At one point, I actually got a "server failed to respond" message from Tivo while the media server was trying to display an image folder with a few hundred images in it.
These are minor issues but the biggest issue for me is image playback performance. If there is anything that can be done to improve this performance, that would be great.
I'm anxious to install the latest version tonight. Now with the built in on the fly conversion, I'm going to have to decide what format to story my music in...decisions, decisions....
Thanks guys, this product ROCKS! I've definately decided to purchase it. At $34 or even $39 it's the best deal anywhere.
John