If you could be more explicit about what disappoints you, or what is slow, that gives me a little more to work with.
Sorry, I was away for a while...
I use the following environment:
- PC with 400 GB Diskspace, 1GB Memory, 2,8GHz CPU, Gigabit-Ethernet
- Buffalo LinkTheater Device with FW 8.32
- Wired connection between both
My MC11 library contains about 50.000 music files, about 10.000 images and some videos.
All music files are ordered in albums with lots of tagging information.
Performance issues:
When accessing MC11 from LinkTheater using UPnP server, it takes about one minute to show up the main menu. When jumping to the music or photo sub-menu it need several minutes to come back with the message like "there is no content on this server"
. This behaviour changes when I dramatically reduce the number of files (to several hundreds).
I compare it with SwissCenter application, which has no problems streaming a large number of files to LinkTheater with very short responce times.
Design issues:
I do not want to organize my files using UpnP, like mentioned in one of the posts here, just play them back. Organizing is my job on the PC, playback should be used by the family too.
I would prefer a flat menu structure: Main menu->music submenu->Artists alphabetically ordered->Albums of a specific artist->track of a specific album. Maybe this could be done using playlists and I'm unable to do that
An intelligent search and navigation algorithm is needed, when dealing with a large number of files (for example to look for artists beginning with letter P). Have a look on Swisscenter, they have one). On each menu level a button like "Play all" should be present.
Will UPnP server have screen design skins? Currently the menu outfit is very "basic".
While playing MP3 it should be possible to show cover art (if present) and some meta information about Artist, Album, Year, Genre,Track name, playing time and so on.
Thank you
Sternwart