The playlist and embedded cover art has passed this forum more than I can count.
Volumio supports playlist, but created within Volumio.
For that reason I am using Logitechmediaserver, to deal with playlists and use Volumio as renderer.
For all others I use Volumio.
So two questions
(A) why donât Volumio deal with both issues?
(B) why isnât the issue more conspicuous on these forums? I did look through them before ordering.
This is silly. We have what seems really good hardware (as best as I can tell), plus a pretty good native audio player app which i would actually like to use. Why donât Volumio deal with what seem like some pretty minor software issues?
This is a question for @volumio to answer, I am just a moderator.
But basically it comes to resource, demand and stability.
Wheaten - thanks so much for your time and patience. You are doing great job!
So now I am trying to use the Rivo outside of the Volumio app.
Rivo appears as an audio device in Tidal, and works without issue.
Rivo does not appears as a upnp/dlna renderer in JRiver (windows) or MconnectHD (IOS).
Installed and enabled the dlna plug in within Volumio - VolumioDLNa appears as a server in JRiver and MconnectHD, but still not as a renderer.
What do I need to do to have Volumio Rivo appear as a DLNA renderer?
Thanks for pointing out the upnp renderer option to me.
In the app, it was showing as ON. I turned the renderer off and then back on again and now it is appearing as a renderer for other applications to use.
Some good news - I got the M3U importer plug-in working. The way it handles the path to your playlists is confusing. But now it is working the playlists are available which is a big step forward.
So I have spent quite a lot of time trying to ensure my music library and playlists work with Volumio on the Rivo. I am surprised to keep finding that Volumio requires your files to be organised in quite a specific way to ensure that things will work (cover, playlists, etc.)
Here are the latest two things I have yet to find a workaround - Wheaten can you help?
(a) If you select âAlbumsâ in Volumio from your set of music sources, the albums are not shown in strict alphabetical order mixed across genres, instead each genre is shown in A-Z order followed by the next. Hoe do i get Volumio to just show all the albums in alphabetical order?
(b) In album with various artists, the tracks from the album are not listed in track number order but alphabetically by artist name. How do i get Volumio to show the tracks in track number order?
One of the things that attracted me to the Rivo was the idea that the hardware and software formed an integrated solution. I thought the Volumio would be in more robust shape than it is proving to be given that it has been a OS for Raspberry PI devices etc for years now.
@volumio This is for you to answer.
I just got an email from Davide in Volumio support saying M3U playlists and import are not supported by Volumio.
I am sorry, that is not acceptable. You cannot market a hardware product as a media player with associated library software and just dismiss a widely used playlist format out of hand like that. Say that support is still being worked on, or explain how playlists need to be adapted so they can be imported (the community written plug-in is doing that). But you cannot seriously just dismiss something as important as that.
You might want to try the Jellyfin Server + Jellyfin Client plugins (disclaimer: I am the author of both).
The idea is to let Jellyfin Server index your music, then use the Jellyfin Client to access your music on the server. It provides standard sorting and filtering, so hopefully would meet your needs.
Regarding m3u playlists, although I havenât tried myself, they seem to be supported in Jellyfin (more here).
If you would like to give this a try, both plugins are installable from the plugin store. Also check the README (server and client) on how to setup (more steps than Volumio, but still pretty straightforward).
Hi Patrick - thanks very much for stepping in to help.
I havenât come across Jellyfin before so I will take a look.
I have to admit, though, that I am not asking Volumio to do anything that should be beyond it. I am not asking files to be served to any other device than the Rivo.
Jellyfin is more of a mediaserver like plex, you can then stick with JRiver and use the Rivo as endpoint. As for library, playlist, dynamic playlist, nothing beats JRiver.
I agree about JRiver. I use it for when I am putting playlists together and administrating my music collection. But then what I want to do is turn my pc off, have the Rivo unit show its UI on a TV, and control the playback from an IPad. That means that, at that point, I am interacting with the Rivo via the Volumio software.
These things I am asking the Volumio software to do are pretty basic for a media player. And it already does many tasks well. Show albums tracks in order. Playing M3U playlists. These are basics I expect from the software with an âaudiophileâ product.
You can experiment with âMedia serversâ in Volumio.
I know I can do that - I already have asset upnp running on the NAS, and can run JRiver as a server. But there should not be any need to - Volumio should be able to handle these simple tasks itself.
I am getting some wierd behaviour using the Rivo as a Upnp target.
Playing from JRiver on a PC, it takes a long time for playback to start when initiated, and only the first song in a playlist is played. JRiver does not report the playback position correctly once it starts.
Playing from MConnectHD on an Ipad with Asset uPnP as the DLNA server, the situation is a bit better but still not perfect: playback takes 2-3 second to start, playback position is not correct in Mconnect, but plyalists are played properly played sequentially.
These issues were not present using either SotM Neo or Ifi Zen Stream as the target using JRiver or MconnectHD.
Is @Volumio around? His absence in this thread is a bit conspicuous by nowâŚ
My support stops here.
I canât support Rivo specific issues, as I have no reference/access to it.
Regards,
