I've been using the UPnP server functionality in MC for some time now, since it was introduced.
For a lot less of that time, I've been using it with a Philips Streamium SL400i.
I've been keeping a few versions behind MC, and am currently running 11.1.94.
I've actually not been using the MC UPnP server much though, because it seems to have got less and less reliable, and I have a couple of other UPnP servers installed that are reliable.
Obviously I'd prefer to use MC's functionality, since that's much more configurable and how I want it anyway :-)
I hadn't really paid that much attention to the fact that it was a bit unreliable, but it's now got to the point where I do think it's worth posting something, because something isn't right.
The problem is with browsing through my music collection. As I browse down the list (in this case, it's going through the list of artists under Audio\Album Artist(auto)/Album) it sometimes just fails to retrieve the children. The Streamium sits there saying "searching". However, if I scroll down to another artist, that one might work. It just seems to stick on some of them. I can't see a pattern.
That's why I'd not worried about it before - I'd just give up trying to listen to that artist and choose a different one!
The UPnP server log shows that it keeps getting repeated Browse requests. I've included an extract below.
The only reason in the extract below that it's moved onto a different artist is because I gave up waiting for it to get to the list and moved onto a different one. If I leave it on one of the artists it never gets the list for, you'll get the two Browse lines (5 then 130) repeated indefinitely.
Any ideas what might be going on?
01/06/06 08:36:31 - Browse BrowseDirectChildren 130(Audio\Album Artist (auto)/Album\Angel City)
01/06/06 08:36:31 - Browse BrowseDirectChildren 5(Audio\Album Artist (auto)/Album)
01/06/06 08:36:33 - Browse BrowseDirectChildren 130(Audio\Album Artist (auto)/Album\Angel City)
01/06/06 08:36:33 - Browse BrowseDirectChildren 5(Audio\Album Artist (auto)/Album)
01/06/06 08:36:34 - Browse BrowseDirectChildren 130(Audio\Album Artist (auto)/Album\Angel City)
01/06/06 08:36:35 - Browse BrowseDirectChildren 5(Audio\Album Artist (auto)/Album)
01/06/06 08:36:36 - Browse BrowseDirectChildren 131(Audio\Album Artist (auto)/Album\Animotion)
01/06/06 08:36:37 - Browse BrowseDirectChildren 5(Audio\Album Artist (auto)/Album)
01/06/06 08:36:38 - Browse BrowseDirectChildren 131(Audio\Album Artist (auto)/Album\Animotion)
01/06/06 08:36:39 - Browse BrowseDirectChildren 5(Audio\Album Artist (auto)/Album)
01/06/06 08:36:40 - Browse BrowseDirectChildren 5(Audio\Album Artist (auto)/Album)