Anyway, many thanks for all your help Bill Classical or Popular/Composer (Classical) or Artist (Popular)/Album and I'm still not sure that's the right way to go about things. Is this covered on the Minim pages in any detail? The reason I ask is that I have structured the music files on the Multimedia/Music folder of the QNAP using a folder tree. I am intrigued by your comments on customisation of music menus. My problems with music stemmed from the fact that the Revo Axis XS can only do network audio from a streaming server.
I have disabled Twonky but., on second thoughts, I'll follow your lead and retain it for movies and pictures although most of my clients can read the movie/picture files directly from the share rather than use a server. As it happens, I have no client which requires transcoding at present. I'd very much appreciate your offer to post the settings to show where I set FLAC to WAV transcoding.
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Fortunately the Minim site gives very comprehensive instructions as you say and as my server is ARM based, I had to download and install the Java environment. Before reading your reply, I took the plunge and installed MinimServer. If its an x86 model, you can directly install JRE via the available QPKG's page, but it sounds like it might be quite an quite old model of Qnap if so, it would maybe struggle to transcode FLAC to WAV on the fly due to it not having enough CPU power. Bri Edit: I have just noticed that you have a TS-401 and I don't know of that model, at all. There are extensive instructions on how you configure it on the MinimServer site, but I'll post a screen shot of my settings later today (to show where you set FLAC to WAV transcoding). In case that interests you and you wish to try MinimServer, you'd first need to download and install JRE from the Oracle site (see the info on this forum you put the file onto the Public share and there's a JRE7 installation QPKG which unpacks your JRE download and installs it all for you) and once that's up and running, you can the download and install the MinimServer QPKG from the MimimServer site. It also permits you to transcode FLAC to WAV on the fly, so that means you can play your music on devices that can't deal with FLAC files (most can deal with WAV). This is better in that you can easily customise the music menus to suit your music collection (so for example, you can set any container it to do alpha-grouping beyond xxx items mine are set to 200) and it will recognise any tag you wish to use (so if you wished to, you could add orchestra, conductor, style, etc, etc). I now use Twonky for pictures and videos but use MinimServer for my FLAC files. Twonky works fine with FLAC files I used it for many years to stream FLAC files to my Linn DS music players. Hi I can't answer to VLC's capabilities as I've never used it, but maybe it doesn't play FLAC files (someone else will no doubt chip in and answer that question).