Why can I not use "play to" listening to music in network folders?

This really should not be this difficult.

I have a router (asus RT-N66U) and a drive hard usb connected to it (WD Mybook).  Hard disk is full of files mp3 music.

I use WMP12 to play that music on any of the computers connected to the network (Win7 anytime running - a few laptops and one desktop).

Also connected to the wireless router is a dlna receiver who returns to my entertainment system.  Using of "play to" I can listen to music from any of my computers connected to the dlna receiver and so in the entertainment system.  Yay!  Party!

But, the music that I can "play to" the dlna receiver is locally the music stored on the COMPUTER DOING THE STREAMING.  Whenever I try to listen to music from the shared hard drive connected to the router I get the game - to the error message "Unable to retrieve information about the media on the media server".  This isn't a problem with the codecs - I can copy the music to one of the hard disks in the computer, then use to play and it works very well.  Why play in cannot the apparently simple task (and obviously necessary) streaming of files from the shared to the receiver dlna network drive?

I tried to turn off and then back on the file sharing multimedia WMP and services UPnP - no change.  I tried to add a registry entry for the media sharing - no change.  I tried to disable firewall on the computer and the router - no change.

Should I really go to Apple and use airplay, which seems to handle this kind of thing very easily and intuitively?

Sunday, December 21, 2014, 17:18:23 + 0000, madurobob wrote:
 
> Whenever I try to listen to music from the shared hard drive connected to the router I get the game - to the error message "unable to retrieve information about the media on the media server.  This isn't a problem with the codecs - I can copy the music to one of the hard disks in the computer, then use to play and it works very well.  Why play in cannot the apparently simple task (and obviously necessary) streaming of files from the shared to the receiver dlna network drive?
 
Bottom line, it is related to DLNA and indexing.
 
If you have WD network devices which have Twonky and activate Twonky,
You can get the game to / DLNA to work.
has the details.
 
I do not know if you enable the DLNA server on the router
a feature that is necessary, but it's something you should try.
 
 
 
 
 
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