In the top right corner you’ll see a box marked “Audio Library.” In it you should see the folder with your music (e.g., D:\Shares\Music) listed - this is how Asset knows which folders to scan for contents. Open the Asset UPnP advanced settings dialog.
(Note: You can make your life a lot easier by mapping a network drive to this location so you can export your playlists directly to the shared destination from iTunes Export.)Ĭonfigure Asset UPnP to find the playlists you just put on the server. I put mine in the Public share on my Windows Home Server under a folder called “Playlists” (e.g., \\myhomeserver\Public\Playlists). m3u playlists in a place Asset can find them (on the same machine as Asset). Open each file in a text editor and remove the comment line from the top (the line that starts with a “#”). For example, a playlist in iTunes called “I Love The 80’s” will be exported as “I Love The 80_s.m3u” by the exporter and Asset will show that as “I Love The 80_s” - the filename, not the original title. M3U8 files the way you want to see them listed in Asset. Select your various export options and click “Next.” Make sure you… Select the playlists that you want to export, then click “Next.” Wait while the application loads the iTunes library and discovers your playlists.
Select the iTunes library XML file location. The exporter uses the XML version of the library and you want to make sure both that iTunes isn’t locking that file and that the very latest has been written to disk so the exporter gets the right data. m3u format.Ĭlose iTunes if you have it open. Go get iTunes Export, a program that will export your iTunes playlists into. m3u format, which means you can export your iTunes playlists and have them work in Asset UPnP. iTunes Playlists #Īsset supports playlists in. AAC / ALAC is far more compatible now than it was several years ago when I started this.
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I used to have this set to force MP3 streaming but recent software updates in PS3 made the WAV streaming a better choice.Īs my front-end device music format support improves, I may stop asking it to transcode entirely.
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In order to allow all of my front-end devices to play my music, I have the following settings in the “Advanced Settings” section of Asset UPnP:Ĭheck the AAC, M4A, M4B, and MP4 boxes so iTunes music (including Apple Lossless) is supported everywhere. With the continued updates to the music streaming experience in Plex I am considering dropping Asset UPnP but I really want Plex to support UPnP first. It does a great job transcoding and seems to work well with every front-end device I throw at it.
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I picked up Asset UPnP back in 2009 when I was trying desperately to figure out how to get iTunes music to play natively in Windows Media Center.Īsset UPnP is a DLNA-compatible music streamer that can play pretty much any music format. Toggle table of contents sidebar Asset UPnP #