Twonky Server 8.2.0

Twonky Server 8.2.0

New Features

  • IPv6 support

Improvements

  • RSS feeds no longer return pre-scaled but original sized album art

  • Twonky Server can now extract FLAC album art

  • added INI option "ssdp_beat_time" to prevent the Philips TV terminating the connection to Twonky Server after 30 minutes

  • added client adaptation "CDS_NOUPLOAD_NOSEARCH" to avoid using CDS:Search and upload

  • added ini option "minimum_picture_resolution" to set minimum resolution for pictures to appear in the navigation tree, defaults to 256,256

  • added ini option "updateeventswhilescanning " to send update events during initial scan to enable control points to refresh the UI

  • added support for LPCM-L files for PN-Param tests for CTT

  • added thumbnail generation tool to the Twonky Server Linux packages for generating thumbnails for mp4 videos

  • disabled check to prevent beaming items to renderers based on their protocol info, as this information is not reliable

  • from now on feed /resources/rss is only available if "enabledeprecatedjsonandrssfeed" is set

  • improved robustness of file scanner when terminating due to bad content

  • improved rpc/client_change to enable/disable all clients on same IP

  • video thumbnail creation is now done in background

Bug fixes

  • fixed possible endless loop in XML parser in case of corrupted XML

  • Twonky Server could not show album art on some mp4 video files

  • Twonky Server did not start up under certain circumstances

  • Windows won't list second Interface (USB wireless adapter)

  • access to multi-user server is no longer denied on a device that has multiple DMRs

  • deadlock in file-scanner fixed when terminated due to timeout

  • embedded album art from some mp3 files could not be extracted

  • fixed a playlist encoding regression when moving from 6.0.39 to 8.0.x

  • fixed crash on parsing certain dsf audio files

  • fixed extraction of embedded albumart for dsd files

  • fixed problem where some bytes were missing at the end of embedded album art picture

  • mp4 thumbnail generation is no longer broken

  • music items with very similar metadata were still visible in views when the share containing these items was disabled

  • removed duplicate translations from strings-XX.txt language files (causing bad XML encoding of special characters in UPnP root response)

  • restricted contents are no longer returned in search-response without proper authorization

  • sometimes the media scanner did not store the media item currently scanned

  • when share is disabled, background-thumbnail and seek-table generation was still continuing

  • wrong sort order in byFolder fixed if usefilenameinfolderview is set

Known issues

  • "My Russound" app does not show the correct album art when used with Twonky Server

  • Subtitle not working between Twonky and Oppo BDP-93

  • interoperability issue with LG 47LE550

  • playlists with web content are not visible in navigation tree

  • pushing videos and photos to XBox one with OS 6.2.13332.0 is not possible

  • valgrind reported memory leak in scan_aac and scan_mp4

  • error in Mac OS logs for filedb-delete is actually only a warning; operation is not impacted

  • audiobooks can not be aggregated by other Twonky Servers

  • duration calculation of MPEG2TS files is not accurate if timeseek generation is disabled

  • UPnP inspector gets confused when Twonky Server provides multiple artist tags with different roles

  • occasionally, Twonky license key input results in "invalid key" on Linux systems

    • workaround: remove the appdata folder and try again

  • webUI

    • sometimes webUI with Opera does not show any thumbnails

    • thumbnails of some rotated images do not show up correctly in webUI

QA information

CTT 2.0.4.1

MCVT 3.0.3.8

UCTT 2.0.65

LPTT 2.0.29