In other words, it let you look at your library much more intuitively than physical file structure. You can look at your library by different tag structures...by artist, by album, by genre, etc. (there are lots of possibilities). In other words, it's does what you wanted HMO to do if you really had a large media library.
I did notice some quirks, though which can hopefully be addressed quickly:
- When starting the Media Server on port 8080, I get a dialog box saying "Failing to bind. The port is not available." I don't know what problems this is causing as it appears to work from there on. Looking at the log, I see an error relating to the TiVo Beacon listener failed, as follows:
04/07/03 16:38:28 - sharer starting
04/07/03 16:38:28 - Initializing server.
04/07/03 16:38:28 - Server initialized
04/07/03 16:38:28 - sharer ready to accept connections
04/07/03 16:38:28 - Started auto response thread on port 5556.
04/07/03 16:38:28 - TiVo HTTP ready for connections
04/07/03 16:39:15 - TiVo Beacon listener failed
04/07/03 16:39:15 - TiVo Beacon ready for connections
- When I select into my library, there seems to be a problem when I scroll up through a list (after having scrolled down). The items appear blank and the bottom part of the item list is cut off. This does not happen with long lists with TiVo Publisher, so I'm not sure where the problem lies.
- When I stop/start the server I often cannot see the library back on the TiVo without first starting and stopping the 'official' TiVo publisher. Is that supposed to be running (and/or installed) with Media Server?
The second item is the biggest showstopper at this point. Anyone experience the same behavior?