.5 Sounds Quality BDP-S570

Mine is the US model.

I uploaded both to my web server. You can get them at these links:

44.100 kHz: www.mxguy.com/3pm/02_Bruno-Mars-Just-Th ... ou-Are.mp3
48.000 kHz: www.mxguy.com/3pm/08_Linkin-Park_Waitin ... he-End.mp3

Let me know when you have them so I can delete them. Thanks for your help. I really appreciate it.

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Got 'em. Can't test now - will do tomorrow morning...

Sounds good. I'm going out of town for the rest of the week so no rush at all.

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Ok, both of those play fine on the European firmware, from the front USB port and from Serviio. So I did some testing and I see that Mezzmo declares the MP3 mime type as audio/mp3 rather than audio/mpeg. I also see that all of Mezzmo's transcoded LPCM fails to play (which we'll need once Serviio does audio transcoding).

Does adding this to the Sony BD Player (US) profile help?

  Code:

         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="audio/mp3">MP3</MediaFormatProfile>


I guess that wouldn't explain why you can't play them from USB. Are you sure you browsed the audio section of the XMB and not the video?

Oh my gosh! First off I am really sorry for wasting your time.

I did not realize that I couldn't view a anything except video's under the video's section, Audio under audio, and pictures under pictures.

it works just fine now that I know what I'm doing. Classic 1D10T error on my part.

Everything works perfectly now from Serviio and USB!

[Illico]

I did not realize that I couldn't view a anything except video's under the video's section, Audio under audio, and pictures under pictures.

Zip, is there something to do to directly browse the proper section folder (Audio/Vidéo/Photo) according to the renderer menu selection? on the first renderer browse upnp get message?

[zip]

there is a topic here somewhere, apparently WMS can do it, but I'm not sure how (maybe port numbers)

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I remember someone said that but I found that not to be the case for me - I have whatever WMP/WMC that comes with Windows 7 Ultimate.
EDIT - do you mean Wild Media Server? I'll check it out...

The Sony Bravia 2009 DLNA client is sensitive to an additional Sony custom DLNA folder attribute indicating the media type of a folder and will only show a video folder from the video menu on the XMB, audio from audio menu etc. However I found during experiments I made with the PS3 Media Server source code and testing with uPnP Tool that it has no effect on the BD Players. Mezzmo uses these custom attributes too regardless of renderer but again no effect on BDP.

It's helpful to consider how DLNA works at a basic level - the server just lists folder contents and the client decides what media types to show you. If your client only shows you audio in the audio menu hierarchy that's not something Serviio can change. Nor can Serviio tell which parent menu on the device you're browsing from - hence the need to show all the media folders all of the time, which adds to the confusion. Clearly DLNA is not well thought out as a standard from a usability point of view but then I think that much is obvious

It's a shame really. TiVo managed to make a technophobe-friendly UI pretty much a decade ago but Sony and the rest of the DLNA consortium can't manage in 2011!

For me it's fine the way it is as I recognize it's a limitation of the BD player. Again thanks for all the help.