Changing Source FOlder for DLNA server

[jinja]

All of my music is in the FLAC folder.

My media players (PS3, Radio device) can't see the music folders because the DLNA server is defaulted to choose Storage/Music/MP3 as the music folder (which is empty).

I change the source in the DLNA page of the vortexbox appliance GUI to storage/music/flac then submit, then rescan,

All seems good - all music is then available to view from my players.

However all of the video folders and files in the video folder are now gone according to my media players - even though I didn't change the storage options for this folder.

I know one resolution for this would be to move all music files to the MP3 folder, then change the squeezecentre music llibrary to the new location - though I would prefer to leave this be, and presume there must be an error in the DLNA server setup.

Any thoughts or fixes?

[Ron Olsen]

You can check your DLNA configuration by looking in /etc/minidlna.conf; look at the media_dir settings. The defaults are

media_dir=A,/storage/music/mp3
media_dir=V,/storage/movies
media_dir=P,/storage/pictures

Make sure these are set the way you want.

If you want minidlna to rebuild its database from scratch:

service minidlna stop
rm -rf /var/cache/minidlna
service minidlna start

You can also look in the minidlna log file: /var/log/minidlna.log to see if there are any error messages.

[yeswork]

Thanks Ron,

Your post prompted me to delete the minidlna cache; fixed a problem I had with some songs not being visible to my Logitech Revue.

Again, thanks for your valuable contributions to this forum.