DLNA database

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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I have a 4TB WD My cloud device. I have been really happy with it until now. 

I have only filled about 1TB of data, but recentley the DLNA database keeps getting courupted. I think it is the DLNA as I can browse to the contence of the drive through windows with no issues, its just when I try and play some of the files on my WD TV Player it finds some of the content then hangs. Its not the player as it plays media from other devices with no issue.

When I get this issue, I reboot the drive, then rebuild the DLNA database (takes about 3 hours) then it works for a day or so, then it stops.

Can anybody help?

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ug! thats a shame. its a propper pain.

if it didnot take so long for the DB to rebuild it would not be so bad.

Thanks.

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Do you know if you can update or change the Twonky bit? or does it get updated with the firmware?

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I think that is what is happening, it takes longer every time it does it.

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Probably a bad media file, twonky gets picky sometimes

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Is there any way of the DLNA only looking for video files? I dont want it to pick up my music. if there is a bad file, its probably one of them.

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http://wdmycloud:9000

You can force twonky only looking for  videos and skip pictures and music, also you can just search for files what Twonky doesnt like (usually custom camera made files and mov files)

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thanks, thats really helpfull

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Where can I find what files Twonky supports or not? I went to Twonky website but can’t find much for WD (ARM) support.

Given their reputation, I am quite disappointed with the Twonky Server embedded on WD My Cloud. Not sure it will be able to support really big media database given the 3-4TB versions that WD sells.

Thanks.

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It seems this solved the problem for original poster. My set-up is a WD my cloud 4TB and I hooked up a 2TB 3.0 USB external harddisk. I made a musicshare (twonky music search only) and a videoshare on the harddisk (twonky video only). 

Using the WD mycloud in my network directly as a back-up works fine, music and video is in the right shares.

But the problem starts when I try to use the DLNA, database is building up, but according to my calculations it’s gonna take at least 3 to 4 weeks to build a database within WD My Cloud. (2.1 Terabyte of mp3’s (250.000 tracks) & 1 Terabyte of video on the harddisk).

I sometimes test other build-ups of databases within a server/mediaplayer environment… 250.000 mp3 tracks normally takes a couple of hours to build a database from scratch (subsonic (java), ampache (php mysql), WinAmp, iTunes, VLC, or even the build-in Linux mediaplayer). So is it right WD My Cloud needs a couple of weeks to build a (250.000+ songs) database, or am I doing something wrong??

If I am not doing anything wrong, than I hope WD will look at the above examples and use and re-write the script that is building the DLNA database… Cause I don’t think we have to wait for a month before we can really use the DLNA server. I think the Norwegian guy from subsonic.org would like to help you speed up this function in WD My Cloud.

Ow the guy’s name is Sindre Mehus, I’ve been following his achievements on his mediaserver (incl. DLNA + apps) system subsonic. His system takes 15 minutes to rescan an entire database (and adds new files only), you can clear the database (remove non existing files) within 2 or 3 minutes. And as I said reading an entire new database only takes an hour or so (> 200.000 files + album art + video’s).

Another point of improvement would be to enable a http server on the NAS itself (not only FTP)… and enlarge the internal memory to 2 or 4 Giga. Off course it’ll cost a few bucks more, but with these improvements the WD My Cloud could be a top ranking NAS, competing with f.e. Netgear.

I hope WD will take my positive input seriously, I can’t wait for the new firmware update :wink: