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• Retry up to 30s to contact devices after they sent alive messages. This improves the discovery of devices that have their internal web server not ready at the time they announce themselves to the network. This can also improve discovery in crowded wireless networks.

• Do not remove devices for byebyes of proprietary services. This circumvents issues for devices which can enable and disable proprietary services on the fly.

• Improved third party stop detection by listening to queue playing events from other instances in the network that start controlling the same renderer.

• Increased connection timeout in LAN from 5s to 10s, since some devices need longer to accept new connections.

• Renderer play duration was not updated if not queue controlled.

• tm_dmrcp_create_metadata_async() returned the result as char* instead of tm_dmrcp_create_metadata_result_t*.

• Support for well-known bookmark DMS_BOOKMARK_PLAYLISTS for Microsoft WMC.

• TSDK: If a local file is added to the queue and title is null, then the local file scanner is used to retrieve and add metadata for all null parameters of RendererContext.createMetadata*() methods.

• Enable state polling when AVTransport subscription fails.

• Use track metadata for improved third party stop detection.

• MAC address can be retrieved for AirPlay and Roku DMRs.

• Re-enabled commands to retrieve best thumbnail and added optional scale parameter in NMC tester (commands eis, eir, eiq, eds, edr).

• tm_dmscp_get_bookmark_for_local_file() to resolve a local file via a locally running Twonky Server.

• Added well-known bookmarks for ReadyMedia/MiniDLNA, Plex and ACCESS. For these servers the NMC_DDKEY_WELLKNOWN_BOOKMARK key will enumerate the known bookmarks.

• Allow more subscribers to DMR (60 services) and increase event timeout (5s) when sending event to subscriber.

• Deprecated well-known bookmarks DMS_BOOKMARK_PLAYLISTS, DMS_BOOKMARK_MUSIC_MYTWONKY, DMS_BOOKMARK_PICTURES_MYTWONKY and DMS_BOOKMARK_VIDEO_MYTWONKY as this support will be removed in a later version.

• TSDK on Android: Enabled file system eventing

• Changed that STATE_PLAYING and STATE_TRANSITIONING are handled even if play invocation is not returned.

• Changed default slide show interval to 5 second

• Fixed a bug for Unauthenticated Files Access (CVE-2014-3748)

• Fixed a bug for SMI subtitles that couldn't be played by LG TV sets

• Improved the DSD file scanner; scanning broken files no longer crash the server

• Improved the embedded jpeg-scaler. The rotation flag is now set correctly

• MacOS: Fixed a number of delays in various areas of Twonky Server.

• Support now BIG5 encoding for WAV files. Requires the correct codepage parameter being set.

• Add subtitle (closed caption) support for newest LG and Samsung TV sets.

• Fixed a bug where changes in nested folders were sometimes ignored by Twonky Server

• Fixed a bug where servers named with -- (double minus) were not correctly handled for aggregation

• Fixed a bug for audio 3GPP that were wrongly detected and served as video 3GPP

• Toggling mute in the Beam UI of Twonky Server no longer sets the volume to 100%

• Fixed a bug in the webUI that went unresponsive when the navigation trees were changed

• Fixed a bug for DSD files where the duration was always shown as zero

• Fixed a bug where changes in nested folders were sometimes ignored by Twonky Server

• Fixed a bug where servers named with -- (double minus) were not correctly handled for aggregation

• Fixed a bug for audio 3GPP that were wrongly detected and served as video 3GPP

• Toggling mute in the Beam UI of Twonky Server no longer sets the volume to 100%

• Fixed a bug in the webUI that went unresponsive when the navigation trees were changed

• Fixed a bug for DSD files where the duration was always shown as zero

• Added support for DSD file format

• Added device detection for Samsung TV F series (2013)

• Improved the Samsung TV device adaptation for better handling of full HD pictures

• New ini-property to define album art behavior:
  If a content item does not contain embedded album art, Twonky Server can use album art from other media items within corresponding album.
  Default value is 0, i.e. album art fallback enabled for music and videos.
  disablealbumart_fallback=0
  If set to 1, album art fallback for music will be disabled i.e. the embedded album art for one music title isn't used for all music items in the view.
  If set to 2, album art fallback for videos will be disabled i.e. the embedded album art for one video item isn't used for all video items in the view.
  If set to 3, album art fallback for both music and videos will be disabled.

• Fixed problem in UTF-8 encoding for certain three-byte UTF-8 characters

• Network communication improvements on MAC

• Fixed problem in Web-based beam control when using mute.

• Default settings change! Per default time seek generation is disabled for Twonky Server. This means that initial scan will be a lot faster but some clients won't any longer be able to time seek on the media. The time seek generation can be turn on again by setting disabletimeseek=0 in the ini-file

• Added 8Player to Twonky’s device DB

• Fixed a bug when removable drive (e.g. USB-Stick) was plugged or unplugged.

• Fixed a bug in the webUI when changing the default-navigation tree. When changed repeatedly the page went unresponsive.

• Fixed a bug for WAV-files with high sampling rates that couldn't be played at WindowsMediaPlayer

• Fixed the wrong album art when navigating through Genre/Artist/Album

• Fixed some long existing Online Services issues regarding Facebook linking

• Fixed a bug for Twonky Server on Linux that crashed when scanning time seek information from .wma files.

• Fixed a bug where Twonky Server sometimes stopped responding when scanning mp4-files

• Fixed a bug in the watchdog caused by the former bug.

• Fixed a crash when removable media drives with shares were removed without shutting down the server (power-off instead of shutdown)

• Fixed a problem that sometimes occurred when Twonky Server was set up to prohibit being aggregated. Some clients received an ‘access denied’ thereafter.

• Further fixes for the Online Services for Linking and Unlinking issues

• Fixed a bug for Twonky Server UI that didn't properly work on IE8

• Fixed a bug that sometimes lead to Twonky Server getting unresponsive during shutdown when AirPlay (Apple TV) or Roku are in the network.

• Fixed default shares on MacOS. Previously the entries for music and photo folders were incorrectly set.

• Fixed that a remote browser accessing the WebUI of Twonky Server was identified as Twonky Server in the media receiver list.

• Fixed a bug where sometimes the default gateway was not set.

• Albums with identical names and sorting behavior of Twonky Server: When you have albums from different artists with same album title in your media collection and you chose the "Album" navigation the titles from both albums will end up together in one view. We checked how to improve this behavior but each fix we found would have caused tremendous performance problems so we decided not to offer a fix.
  In case you have this problem we can only suggest that you manually change the metadata of the album(s) that cause this behavior.

• Improved Web UI behavior when the "ignored directories" were changed.

• Improved the installation behavior. If upload or aggregation is disabled for Twonky Server neither the upload nor the mirror folders get created. This is only visible at initial installation - if the upload or mirror folders are present from a former installation of Twonky Server they won't get removed.

• The upload and mirrored folders are configurable now. The new properties can be set in the ini-file and are named:

-uploadmusicdir
-uploadpicturedir
-uploadvideodir
-mirroredmusicdir
-mirroredpicturedir
-mirroredvideodir  

If upload and mirroring is disabled no respective folder will be created by Twonky Server.

• We cleaned up the navigation tree. Therefore we eradicated some categories which were duplicates. No functionality was lost with the changes but Twonky Server got faster and uses less memory now.

• Improved Twonky Server’s subtitle support. The server is now able to add subtitle files after the content has already been scanned. Previously, subtitle files had to be placed there prior to the content.
  This improvement works only for systems that support file system event notifications.

• Fixed a bug at browsing the online videos which sometimes led to long response times

• Fixed a bug at the Web UI which always indicated that Twonky Server is streaming although the streaming was stopped. Note: This behavior can still be seen on devices with huge buffers.

• Fixed the Windows Start menu entry that pointed to twonkyforum instead of community.twonky.com

• Fixed the bug for Twonky Server on Linux system where configuration files were written into two different folders

• Several bugs related to the Online Services were fixed

• Fixed some problems for the persistent device database. The device types are better recognized now and the client expiration time was fixed. Also problems switching networks or having more than on network adapter accessible were addressed.

• Fixed that a remote browser accessing the Web UI of Twonky Server was identified as Twonky Server in the media receiver list.

• Fixed default shares on Mac. Previously the entries for music and photo folders were incorrectly set.

• Fixed a problem with the tray app on MacOS where the server wasn’t terminated correctly so that the server couldn’t be started and stopped from the tray app properly.

• Some Online Services problems aren't fixed:

Occasionally seen problems with facebook feeds

• For Genre/Artist/Album and Playlists the server offers wrong albumart: Instead of the first valid albumart the default albumart is used as thumbnail.

• We have seen occasional hangs in the web UI when the navigation tree view was changed repeatedly.

• Fixed two memory leaks

• Updated client detection to prevent duplicated entries in the media receivers list

• Fixed a bug where Linux systems with a Kernel version >=3.10 suffered from heavy CPU-load

• Fixed a bug where Linux systems with a Kernel version >=3.10 suffered from heavy CPU-load

• Fixed a bug in the webbrowse pages that led to missing folder thumbnails and slow performance.

• Fixed the MimeTypeSuppress-Quirk in the client adaptations

• Fixed a bug where playlist still were visible although the content was not shared any longer. Please note: If you un-share content that also is part of a playlist you have to manually trigger a rescan in order to find this change again in your playlists.

• Fixed video playlists. Playlists (either iTunes or WMP) are recognized as video playlists now. In case of mixed playlists the lists will be available at music-playlists.

• Fixed a bug where the picture orientation wasn't taken into consideration of the thumbnails.

• Added aiff metadata support

• When installing on a Windows system it's possible to choose that Twonky Server isn't launched directly after installation. Settings option can be found in under “custom installation”. (Rolled back in 7.2.5)

• Album art extracted by Twonky Server is no longer added to the shared locations.

• We provide a package for Raspberry Pi

• We provide a package for Raspberry Pi

• Fixed performance issues

• Fixed the client adaptation for Panasonic VIERA TVs: Added the VIERA_DIVXPROFILE per default setting

• Fixed the PlayStation recognition in the client list

• Fixed the video thumbnail generation. Please note that the tool included with Twonky Server only supports the following codecs: .mp4, .3gp files with MPEG4 part 2 Simple Profile, H.263 Base Profile and Annex IJKT, or H.264/AVC Restricted Baseline Profile/Main Profile/High Profile (non-interlace)

• Fixed a bug for Samsung TVs and UPC STBs where some .mp4 files couldn't be paused and resumed or played

• Fixed a problem for Mac builds. Twonky Server now restarts after reboot

• Fixed the Linux installer script

• Improved performance and memory usage

• New version because of some packaging problems.

• New branding

• TwonkyServer Free abandoned

• TwonkyServer Special renamed to Twonky Server

• As of April 2, 2013, www.mytwonky.com is no longer active. mytwonky nodes in the Twonky Server navigation tree are renamed to Online Services. Online services can be configured directly through the Twonky Server settings pages.

• Twonky WebDAV server abandoned

• New device database behavior
  The client device database is persistent now. Client devices found in the same network as the server will stay in the database even if they are turned off. Only after two weeks unseen by Twonky Server they will vanish from the list.

• Added support for beaming to Roku box (Roku 2 XS)

• Added Airplay support for beaming from Linux systems

• Improved support for AcePlayer

• Improved the MP4 profile recognition support

• Improve detection of non-ASCII Asian character encodings

• Improved FLV audio-only support

• Improved OGG video-only support

• Improved handling of album and album artist tags for music items

• if an album artist is given in addition to the artist then Twonky Server shows the album artist on album level and the artist on file level

• it is possible to enable up to three different genres per item in single tags instead of a comma separated list. The device profile needs to be modified: add <Quirk>TAG_PER_GENRE</Quirk> to the device profile which can handle more than one genre tag

• The directory lists when browsing Twonky Server on a Linux system via the web UI is alphabetical now.

• Fixed a bug where iTunes playlists were shared even if the sharing location was disabled

• Fixed a problem for metadata scanning of .png files

• Fixed a problem for the return number of scanned items that sometimes gave wrong results

• Extended the blacklisted directories for MacOS

• Fixed a bug for .isma files that were scanned as video instead of audio.

• Changing navigation tree settings does not have an effect towards the web UI pages any longer. web UI will always show the advanced navigation tree view whereas view settings will only be available for the connected devices.

• Fixed a bug for .avi files that couldn't be pushed to XBOX 360

• Fixed a bug for files that were autocopied with wrong file-extension when non-Twonky servers are aggregated.

• Fixed a bug for wrongly scanned .tp video files

• Fixed a problem for servers that were connected to my.twonky.com. There were problems when the network was changed in between.

• Fixed the embedded album art problem for WDTV Live Plus HD

• Fixed a bug for Beaming a Radio Station on Apple TV with Twonky Server running on  MacOS

• Fixed the password-protection for the configuration settings in the web UI
  Either delete the settings on the .ini-file or via rpc/set_option?accesspwd=
  In this case an authentication with the old password is needed

• Fixed a problem where the sharing page was inaccessible when no clients were detected.

• Fixed a bug for .mov videos where the resolution wasn't extracted correctly

• Fixed a bug when music items with multiple genres were removed

• Fixed a bug which caused problems with pictures on WD players

• Fixed a problem when multiple Twonky Servers were in the same network. My.twonky.com had problems displaying the servers

• Fixed: Blackberry AMR files get  indexed now

• Fixed some smaller issues on the web UI

• Fixed a problem for files that have no date set in the metadata

• Fixed handling for OGG-files w/o metadata. Default date is now system creation date

• Fixed  a bug where the friendlyname of an aggregated server sometimes was empty

• New terms of service (TOS)

• Fixed a bug where iTunes playlists were shared even if the sharing location was disabled

• Fixed a problem for metadata scanning of .png files

• Fixed a problem for the return number of scanned items that sometimes gave wrong results

• Extended the blacklisted directories for MacOS

• Fixed a bug for .isma files that were scanned as video instead of audio.

• Changing navigation tree settings does not have an effect towards the web UI pages any longer. web UI will always show the advanced navigation tree view whereas view settings will only be available for the connected devices.

• Fixed a bug for .avi files that couldn't be pushed to XBOX 360

• Fixed a bug for files that were autocopied with wrong file-extension when non-Twonky servers are aggregated.

• Fixed a bug for wrongly scanned .tp video files

• Fixed a problem for servers that were connected to my.twonky.com. There were problems when the network was changed in between.

• Fixed the embedded album art problem for WDTV Live Plus HD

• Fixed a bug for Beaming a Radio Station on Apple TV with Twonky Server running on  MacOS

• Fixed the password-protection for the configuration settings in the web UI
  Either delete the settings on the .ini-file or via rpc/set_option?accesspwd=
  In this case an authentication with the old password is needed

• Fixed a problem where the sharing page was inaccessible when no clients were detected.

• Fixed a bug for .mov videos where the resolution wasn't extracted correctly

• Fixed a bug when music items with multiple genres were removed

• Fixed a bug which caused problems with pictures on WD players

• Fixed a problem when multiple Twonky Servers were in the same network. My.twonky.com had problems displaying the servers

• Fixed: Blackberry AMR files get  indexed now

• Fixed some smaller issues on the web UI

• Fixed a problem for files that have no date set in the metadata

• Fixed handling for OGG-files w/o metadata. Default date is now system creation date

• Fixed  a bug where the friendlyname of an aggregated server sometimes was empty