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Hello,

Does someone here know how to add internet radios in Twonky Media? I tried creating a .m3u file from MediaMonkey but I can't see it in the LinnGUI.
Thanks a lot for your help.

I managed to get internet radio working when I first got my Sneaky - I just clicked the boxes in Twonky, ensuring I chose Shoutcast, then I used mediastreamer in my N800. Internet radio appeared alongside the usual stuff ("album", "genre", "artist" etc) and I played it from there.
I've not tried it via LinnGUI though, but I assume it must work in a similar way.

Mick.

Once you have Shoutcast enabled in Twonky, and working as described, you can add personal stations using m3u files. Just create the relevant m3u file (make sure it is for http/mp3 streams) and put it somewhere in Twonky's search directories. You can create one file per station, or put multiple stations in each file, depending on how you like Twonky to display them. The station(s) will then appear under 'Internet Radio' in the browse menus. Example m3u shown:

Hi, I have just upgraded my QNAP 209-II to Twonky 4.4.9. Shoutcast now works ... Great, but now my radio.m3u file which contains a few radio stations cannot be found anywhere. Have rebuilt the database and rescaned and moved the file around. Before the upgrade, when Shoutcast was not working but Shoutcase was selected the file was found. I wish this wasn't so difficult. Any thought on this. Thanks, 3RC.

Hi

I just reverted to Twonky 4.4.6 as I suspected 4.4.9 didn't handle the album artwork very well (this could be another issue though so don't take it as a certainty). It is also known that 4.4.9 has a problem with saved playlists and maybe this could be the issue? I think it's mostly album playlists people have complained about, but a playlist is a playlist and it could thus explain the problem (I don't use playlists and thus cannot really say for sure).

I reverted to Twonky 4.4.6 but before removing 4.4.9, I saved the two shoutcast files and then once I'd installed 4.4.6, I stopped the service, renamed the 4.4.6 shoutcast files and copied the 4.4.9 shoutcast files to the Twonky plugins directory. When I then started the Twonky (4.4.6) service and rebuilt the database, shoutcast appeared and worked as per 4.4.9.

Unfortunately, you need SSH access to your NAS and a wee bit of Linux knowledge to copy these files from your current build (I had none but I'm getting there now). Unless you have a Qnap NAS installation of Twonky 4.4.6, you'd then need to downgrade to the previous Qnap build (with Twonky 4.4.6) and then copy the two 4.4.9 files back. Downgrading the entire Qnap build could have other (serious) consequences so I'd not go down that route lightly unless you've looked through their forum and found out if it can be done completely safely!!!

The trouble is that I don't think Twonky make the self-install NAS builds available for the Qnap but you might find them on the Qnap site though. If so, you can follow the same process I did and get 4.4.6 working with shoutcast and without doing anything to major like reverting the whole NAS to it's previous build just to change Twonky.

Please only attempt any of the above if you're completely clear about what I've written and thus realise the consequences of getting anything badly wrong when hacking into your NAS (like data loss and even completely breaking it); if in any doubt at all, forget you read any of the above or find a Linux guru, buy them lots of beer and ask them to do it for you! If you wish to proceed, back up your NAS and remove one drive such that you can start it on the removed one if it all goes very wrong (you can then resync to the 'broken' one to the one you removed)

It might be that Twonky get their heads in gear and sort this out in the next release and thus might be well worth holding on for a month or two to find out what happens.

Bri

Bri