Where Is a Simple UPNP Client in Windows That Works

[leegold2]

Hi,

I have windows media player 12 on Win7. And it will discover UPNP. But two problems:

It shows duplicates of the media files, so far up to four duplicates listed of the same file. I've tried fixing that with remedies found on the web but so far no luck.

It will not show me a folder view of the UPNP media. I have everything organized in folders they way I like. And other UPNP clients will show "pc directory" and I can drill down into the folder/file tree and get exactly what I want to play. WMO 12 shows files organized in some way I don't find usable. I just want a simple folder tree view which all other clients give me the option for except for WMP.

With these two problems the UPNP listing/display is unusable.

Any possible fixes? I serve UPNP with Mediatomb...

VLC would be an alternative but it has a bug were it takes huge amounts of time to fully discover large UPNP collections. I wait 15 minutes anytime I try to use it - tried the nightly devel. versions too.

Foobar it great but only plays music.

All the other UPNP solutions for Windows are to big - they're total overkill, eg MediaMonkey is hardwired into Amazon. All I want is a simple client. There are good choices in Linux but I can't find any in Windows.

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[Sympology]

Not sure about UPNP but have you tried XMBC for your media library?

Stu..

Robert Wilensky:
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

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[Sympology]

Curse that lack of an edit button. From the XMBC site:

With UPnP compatibility you can stream to and from any other XBMC instances and play to other UPnP compatible devices in your home with ease. Have one UPnP master device and use other XBMC instances as clients which automatic keeps you watched status and library up-to-date. You can also now import from uPnp sources to synchronize your data inside instances of XBMC.

Robert Wilensky:
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

http://alvechurchlounge.org.uk

 

[goombawaho]

Yes, how do we get an edit button on here???

"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares.

 

[hairlessupportmonkey]

Only in privately run forums you can edit...

But I second XBMC, my dedicated media centre runs that via Openelec...

You could also try a twonky media server (

http://twonky.com/)

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