upnp server to dsm 320

[angelsneverdie]

i've seen other posts that say i can stream music with mythtv to my dlink dms 320 - i've installed mythtv and can't figure **** out. i don't know how to tell it where my music files are, or how to tell it to serve them or anything.

as you can tell, i'm a huge noob
can anyone tell me what i have to do to get this to work?
i'm running gutsy

[superm1]

By default mythmusic uses /var/lib/mythtv/music.

Put your music in there, and then go into the musicbrowser for mythmusic make sure it works.

As for getting it going with UPNP, I want to say it will automatically export from the backend, but don't know for sure.

[angelsneverdie]

what do you mean by export?

[angelsneverdie]

also, i transfered a folder of some music into the directory you specified, but it doesn't show up when i start the mythtv frontend

[superm1]

Go into the settings menu and choose the music related option and with any luck it should generate a playlist based upon your selection.

[angelsneverdie]

no such luck. :-(

are there any other options that mythtv for streaming music via upnp?

[superm1]

Are any things being exported? Like your recordings?

[angelsneverdie]

i still don't know what you mean by exported. i don't have any recordings. . . i don't even have a tv tuner, i just want to stream my mp3's so that my d-link media player can play them

[superm1]

Take a look here:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/UPnP

and

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/DLinkDSM520-UPnP

particularly.

You need to make sure you have setup an external IP address in mythtv-setup if things are to be exported.



Make sure you set the proper external IP in mythtv-setup, otherwise you will be able to see your server via UPnP, but the file location urls will contain the default 127.0.0.1 IP address.
Make sure you have a value for MusicLocation set for your backend hostname if your frontend and backend are on different machines

Exporting means "showing up" on the other machines such as your dsm-320.

[angelsneverdie]

alright, i set the ip address and still nothing shows up either on this computer or on the dlink thing. i think i'm just going to uninstall everything and buy a wireless adapter for my speakers.

thanks for trying to help me

[viper4]

Hey. Try installing gmediaserver. That's what I use and it works, same model - DSM 320. The way you use it is by doing Alt+F2 and then type 'gmediaserver /path/to/your/music' - without the quotes.

Hope this works for you.

[mechgt]

I installed MythTV, MythVideo, & MythMusic on a Gutsy machine, and am able to watch all of my movies & music on my D-Link DSM-520. I added a link to my music folder (on another HDD) under the /var/lib/mythtv/music folder... same for my videos. Probably the main thing that I did was to change the backend IP from 127.0.0.1 to 192.168.0.x (backend server's IP address).

Functionally everything works fine, however the sorting is quite lacking. On the D-Link go to 'Music' and my options are 'All Music' & 'By Album'; either of which would take a week to scroll through to find the music I want to listen to. Same goes for Videos... 'Genre', 'Country' & 'All Videos' are the options.

I need a better way to find the music and movies I want... like a folder structure.