MP3 Audio Track Order
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 12:01 amHi,
I realise that this topic has been raised a number of times (often for Samsung TV DLNA clients) but I have found problems with the track order when serving MP3 files. I know that your official position is that Serviio is working correctly, and it is the client that is at fault, but I have found a couple of anomalies between Serviio and other media servers.
As some background, I have been using Asset UPnP very successfully from a Windows Home Server for a number of years. I'm just switching to a new server box, running Windows 10, and thought that I'd look for an alternative to Asset UPnP which would also serve video files, and found Serviio. So I basically have 2 servers - one using Asset UPnP, and the other using Serviio, which are serving the same MP3 files.
I've tried several DLNA Clients, but the two examples here are 'All My Media' (from the Windows store) and the Media Monkey Win 8/RT version (https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/p/mediamonkey/9wzdncrdkbt0).
Here are the screenshots of the same album served to All My Media from Asset UPnP and Serviio, both from the 'Album/Artist' category:
As you can see, the files served from Asset UPnP show the track number, and are therefore in the correct order, whereas the ones served from Serviio are in alphabetical order.
If I access the same album from Media Monkey, everything is correct when served from Asset UPnP, but when served from Serviio, the tracks come up as 'Unknown Artist', and again the track numbers are missing (although the order is correct):
The MP3s were tagged with ID3v2.3(utf-16) and ID3v1, but I tried changing them to use ID3v2.4(utf-8) using MP3Tag, and the results were the same.
Do you have any idea why this is happening? I tried changing the logging level to debug, but other than a few lines like the following, there didn't seem to be anything significant in the file:
Is there anything else I could try, such as changing the profile associated with the ip address?
Thanks for your help.
I realise that this topic has been raised a number of times (often for Samsung TV DLNA clients) but I have found problems with the track order when serving MP3 files. I know that your official position is that Serviio is working correctly, and it is the client that is at fault, but I have found a couple of anomalies between Serviio and other media servers.
As some background, I have been using Asset UPnP very successfully from a Windows Home Server for a number of years. I'm just switching to a new server box, running Windows 10, and thought that I'd look for an alternative to Asset UPnP which would also serve video files, and found Serviio. So I basically have 2 servers - one using Asset UPnP, and the other using Serviio, which are serving the same MP3 files.
I've tried several DLNA Clients, but the two examples here are 'All My Media' (from the Windows store) and the Media Monkey Win 8/RT version (https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/p/mediamonkey/9wzdncrdkbt0).
Here are the screenshots of the same album served to All My Media from Asset UPnP and Serviio, both from the 'Album/Artist' category:
- all my media - combined.png (367.31 KiB) Viewed 11269 times
As you can see, the files served from Asset UPnP show the track number, and are therefore in the correct order, whereas the ones served from Serviio are in alphabetical order.
If I access the same album from Media Monkey, everything is correct when served from Asset UPnP, but when served from Serviio, the tracks come up as 'Unknown Artist', and again the track numbers are missing (although the order is correct):
- media monkey - combined.png (422.4 KiB) Viewed 11269 times
The MP3s were tagged with ID3v2.3(utf-16) and ID3v1, but I tried changing them to use ID3v2.4(utf-8) using MP3Tag, and the results were the same.
Do you have any idea why this is happening? I tried changing the logging level to debug, but other than a few lines like the following, there didn't seem to be anything significant in the file:
Is there anything else I could try, such as changing the profile associated with the ip address?
Thanks for your help.