dlna

So, my attempt at enjoyment while dosed with the flu was nixed by my setup denying me access to my audio media on my NAS.

A dive into the problem showed that it was really two problems. So, if your NAS, Synology in my case, is no longer visible over DLNA then a reboot of your network switches may be the solution. It was the last thing I tried, probably due to being dosed with the flu. But it seems to have fixed the undesired blocking of the DLNA SSDP advertisement over my network and restored my ability to see my NAS on DLNA clients again.

The second problem was that the Synology NAS was not showing all of the music and occasionally nothing at all via the Media Server app. This turned out to be a problem with the indexing service on the NAS, and the solution to fixing it was to change the file type on the indexed folders. After a lengthy time, it completed the indexing, and the Media Server app was able to see and serve the content once more. I had previously tried to reindex, but it was only when I changed the File Type for the indexed Folder in the Indexing Service that it fixed this issue.

After solving these issues I could once more stream music to Foobar 2000 on my ipad, and attempt to chill out while waiting for my own AV to kick this flu virus’s ass.