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