Internet access - In one post I was reading about someone that was trying to stream from his server through the Internet to his remote and it didn't work. He was told that doing so would open his system to security issues. So once the player is setup what would the harm be in turning off the gateway access to the player computer? Especially on Windows 10 computers that will loose security updates starting in October. Or are you one of those who think like Microsoft and we should all go out and buy new computers so we can run a supported version of Windows 11?
I think you misunderstood what I said there in that other topic. If you use it locally, meaning within your own local area network there's really no security risk allowing the Windows 10 PC to have internet access (in fact it's imperative so it gets Defender and security updates, at least until October). What is a potential security risk is forwarding ports in order to access your library
outside your local network. As long as it's used locally and no ports forwarded allowing any outside access, it's fine to have it connected to the internet. In fact, when using remotes like JRemote, Panel, etc. you actually should have internet access on the server running MC for best results because it'll need some sort of internet connection for the access key support to work, for example. It's also fine to use Windows 10, at least until October like you mentioned. Then you'll have to figure out your next move there once support ends.
210,000 Files - I have repeatedly brought up the issues with the Gizmo Remote software. I have a Beatles Playlist that has a couple of hundred songs and the little Icon that allows me to go to the playlist shows up in Gizmo. My Full Playlist has around 9,000 songs on it and that Playlist Icon does not appear when accessing it in Gizmo. Oh....The playlists that do show up in Gizmo are sorted by the same criteria as the Playlist on the Player.
Gizmo hasn't been updated in years, and seeing how Panel and JRemote for iOS and JRemote3 for Android are a thing, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there's any updates to it unless a future Android update breaks something. I also wouldn't be surprised if things don't work on newer Android versions. Otherwise, it *should* still work, albeit with issues. It's honestly probably a little pointless to report Gizmo issues, at least that's how it seems to be these days. JRemote3 on the other hand is in active development at least.
JRemote3 - You said I should share the bugs in the software. Well I did complete with attachments showing the issue. Your response was well that's just the way it is. I have tested several remotes on other programs and they all sort the files on the remote the same as the playlist on the player.
I think you should start a topic in the
Remotes section of the forum with a list of your JRemote3 issues, hopefully with steps to reproduce too just in case it's hard to reproduce them. JRemote3 had a lot of changes under the hood, so there is bound to be issues like this. As long as they're in a place where Hendrik can see them and then hopefully reproduce them, he can hopefully fix them.
