![]() My understanding is that Qnap are waiting for Twonky to send them the T 6.0.1 files for inclusion within the next firmware releases. T6 (6.0.1) has just been released and it really is very good indeed (I've put it on a TS-659 by simply unpacking the x89 Linux glibc package and overwriting the files/directories in the Linux part of the NAS this also requires you to buy a license key as it's based on the standard Twonky product as opposed to the one created specifically for Qnap). Also, in order to get full resolution artwork to control points (as opposed to the 160 pixel default artwork) you have to download my custom transcoding file again, this is replaced at every reboot and is thus a bit of a pain in the **. I have published replacement trees ( see here) but these need folks to use SSH access to change them, and if you re-boot the Qnap, they get replaced by the originals again. T5.1 was better in many ways (the database for the same quantity of files was only about 14 MB) but the trees (menus) were still not user-configurable from any web based interface. It did handle art massively better and also correctly read the composer info from FLAC files it was still 'technically' a better product in many key areas. This was fine, but it took ages to rebuild the database and took up tonnes of space on certain products (like ReadyNAS) due to the 16 KB block size file system they used (mine was 5 GB for 25,000 music files), but the music trees (menus) were no longer user-configurable from the web based interface. T5.0 was pretty good, but the database comprised 10's of thousands of directories and metafiles for only a few thousands of media tracks. Some of these things might well have been improved (the last version I used was 4.4.15 and they're now on 4.4.18) but to be honest, I'd be very surprised if they are completely fixed (why would they spend loads of time and money developing something that's just so out of date I certainly wouldn't if I owned Twonky). Vorbis comments - from FLAC files, the album art is a bit flaky, it is only capable of reliably issuing art to control points at 160 pixels and certain punctuation in the file paths of your media could break the album artwork. T4 has a good user-configurable menu which can be set up using the Twonky web interface (as stated by Lucas72) and that's a big plus, but Twonky 4 really is pretty 'long in the tooth' by now and it has always some serious flaws it doesn't read composer tags - i.e. ![]() I've been using the various versions of Twonky (over the past three years) to control the streaming of music (FLAC files) to my Linn DS system and can only give you an idea from my perspective as a music only user: ![]() Difficult to describe the differences unless you are already familiar with Twonky's capabilities, uses and history, and indeed familiar with the complexity, range and quality (or lack of quality) of the products in the market they now have to pander to. ![]()
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