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  1. Thanks. I was finally able to get a network-shared folder on my macbook air hardrive to work. However, now I am taking he extra step of connecting an external drive containing the music folders to the macbook air, and trying to use that as the network shared folder (I am only able to get a small fraction of all the music I have on the macbook air's internal drive, thats why I really need the external drive to work eventually). I still get error messages every time I try to do this from the external drive. The error says "Something is Wrong! Oops! Something was wrong as are unable to connect to your device. Please go back and try again' I'm using the same method to point to the shared external drive as I was using to point to the folder on the macbook air that worked earlier. The external drive I am using was successfully used previously when it was connected directly to the Airies Mini (so I know those music files should be accessible and readable)
  2. Hi I'm hoping someone can help me figure out how to setup a network shared folder for my Aries Mini...  I have been using the Aries Mini with an external drive connected via USB to the back of the Mini for several months now without too much issue. But now, I'd like to try to use it with a network shared folder. Eventually I'd like to have an external drive connected to my MacBook Air to use as my network shared folder. But to simply things for now, I cant even get any folder on my macbook air to work as a network shared folder. I'm following the instructions here: https://support.auralic.com/hc/en-us/articles/206855007-Create-network-shared-folder-on-Mac-OS-X I've gone over them a few times and it seems I am doing everything right. Created a new user for 'aries' on the laptop, set up a little 'music-test' folder containing a few music files and tried putting it in multiple locations on the computer. Each time, I made sure to turn file sharing on for the folder, added the new user 'aries' to the folder with Read & Write access. I set up the network path like smb://'IP Address'/music-test (or wherever it's located). Each time I save the path it comes back and says the IP address for the path is incorrect. Am I having any issue because the external USB drive is still connected as well? Can a USB drive and a network drive both be connected? I cant understand what else might be wrong. Thanks
  3. Hi I'm hoping someone can help me figure out how to setup a network shared folder for my Aries Mini... I have been using the Aries Mini with an external drive connected via USB to the back of the Mini for several months now without too much issue. But now, I'd like to try to use it with a network shared folder. Eventually I'd like to have an external drive connected to my MacBook Air to use as my network shared folder. But to simply things for now, I cant even get any folder on my macbook air to work as a network shared folder. I'm following the instructions here: https://support.auralic.com/hc/en-us/articles/206855007-Create-network-shared-folder-on-Mac-OS-X I've gone over them a few times and it seems I am doing everything right. Created a new user for 'aries' on the laptop, set up a little 'music-test' folder containing a few music files and tried putting it in multiple locations on the computer. Each time, I made sure to turn file sharing on for the folder, added the new user 'aries' to the folder with Read & Write access. I set up the network path like smb://'IP Address'/music-test (or wherever it's located). Each time I save the path it comes back and says the IP address for the path is incorrect. Am I having any issue because the external USB drive is still connected as well? Can a USB drive and a network drive both be connected? I cant understand what else might be wrong. Thanks
  4. Hi everyone. Does anyone have any new update on if/when Auralic will offer Lightning DS as a web based or computer app that can be used on a laptop, as opposed to the ipad/mobile versions? Thanks for any new info...
  5. Thanks everyone. I downloaded and started using MP3Tag as suggested by a few of you. It's been relatively user friendly (even for me), and it's been able to do any of the simple things I've wanted so far.
  6. Thanks. I knew this was a simple question, and I AM looking for the simplest of solutions so I appreciate it. Im just curious to know what a few of you are using because I want something I can trust to download without malware or some other seedy software.
  7. Hi all. Still new to computer audio and I have a very general and basic question about editing tag info on music files - like correcting errors in artist or title fields? adding artwork etc? I found that some very basic stuff can be done easily in itunes. But what about my flac files? I have some of those needing editing. Does anyone recommend a free program online that can do just very basic stuff? Using a mac. I dont need or want anything complicated - all I will probably do with this is edit a handful of files that may have some errors.
  8. Thanks for everyone's help so far. I have a very general and basic question about editing tag info on music files - like correcting errors in artist or title fields? adding artwork etc? I found that some very basic stuff can be done easily in itunes. But what about my flac files? I have some of those needing editing. Does anyone recommend a free program online that can do just very basic stuff? Using a mac. I dont need or want anything complicated - all I will probably do with this is edit a handful of files that may have some errors.
  9. Thanks Cebolla. I had read somewhere else that it was possible to use the Aries Mini with the Squeezebox Logitech Media Server software, but havent spent much time trying to figure out how to do it. I dont have much experience changing or configuring these systems, so I have hesitated looking into this. I just went to the thread you linked, for instance...it is about 160 pages long! It would probably be a frustrating exercise for me to try to work through it. I also searched the thread for mentions of 'aries', and found only a few posts with no real resolution to the question of how to set it up using the Aries Mini. I think i would need someone to provide a tutorial or step-by-step set of instructions about setting up the Aries Mini to work with Squeezebox LMS. I would love to see this at some point. For now, I felt it was better to just use the Aries with Lightning DS for a while to see what the pros/cons are vs LMS. I was happy to see at least one thing that works better in Lightning DS (deleting an entire album at once, rather than one track at a time). But so far, I still think there are more pros to LMS. For instances, searching in LMS seems 'smarter'. With LMS you can start to see the search results show up as you type (i.e. you dont have to type the entire search term and click 'search' to see the results). Another thing that's better with LMS imo, is that you dont need to hit 'rescan' after you've put something new into your library. LMS just seems to see the new item immediately if you are just browsing through your library folder using the software.
  10. Hi pvanosta. Sounds like we pretty much like to use the search/view in the same way! It would have been nice to know how functional this view is. It's sort of 'hidden' within this other view. Took me a while to figure out, and I could imagine never clicking on that top folder and seeing what it does. And yes, I am worried about a future date when I might have to rescan/rebuild the library and what this wil do to this search view. One thing I still like better about the Squeezebox software is how you can move tracks around the playlist by dragging them up and down the list with your mouse (there were some flaws about how Logitech implemented this imo, but I wont go into it now). I wish you could do something similar in Lightning DS, but it doesnt appear to be the case. I will say that one thing that Lightning DS does better than Squeezebox software is the ability to delete entire albums from your playlist all at once. With Squeezebox, you had to delete items from your playlist once track at a time. It would be nice if Lightning DS allowed you to move around tracks, or even better, move around whole albums, up and down your play list. Does anyone know if this is possible?
  11. Thanks again. But I think I may have answered my own question late yesterday, while playing around more in this 'modify date' view... Like I said, in this view you typically just see a list of folder-after-folder-after-folder all named as a date. But at the very top of the list of folders is one folder named 'View All Dates', and when you click on that one, you can finally see a view of the album covers by chronological order (I believe you can see this view as either a list or a grid). This is pretty much what I was looking for, with recent albums at the top and then they get older as you go down (this is different from 'Album View' since in that case you are seeing them in alphabetical order. I'm liking this Aries Mini more and more as I learn more about what I can do with Lightning DS. I came from several years of experience using Logitech Squeezebox and the Logitech Media software software. There are a few things I like better with each set of software at this point. But I want to learn more about Lightning DS to make sure I am using it optimally. So I may have a few more questions coming up...
  12. Hi pl_svn. The 'last modify date' search is interesting. It does seem to do as you say...but I still have an issue with that as well - with this search view I have seemingly several hundred or so folders all in a list named by the date, each folder is spaced a few days or a week apart, and each holding just a few albums each. Looking at this list of dates (as folders) doesnt present things much better than the other views I've looked at. It would be nice if you could collapse all or a bunch of these folders in the 'modify date' view and just see a list of the albums chronologically. This way you're looking at your most recent adds at the top, etc. Any thoughts about getting something like that done?
  13. Got my Aries Mini this past weekend. After a few hiccups getting Lightning DS to read the music library, it's up and running. It seems like when I was first scanning for the new music library, it was getting bogged down on certain folders/files - seemed to continually get stuck on those same folders, so after I deleted a few of those, it seems scanning through properly. Now that I have a little limited experience using Lightning DS, I'm curious how do other people deal with certain issues: First off, is there any good way to look through your most recently added files? I can see that there is a way to view the music using file upload date, but since I am uploading over 10,000 files all at once, they are all showing up all at once. I realize there may not be any good solution to this, but has anyone figured out some way to work around this?
  14. Luvdac- I've been searching online for an answer about this for a couple months...it seems like most are saying it has been discontinued. It's been out of stock at most places I've checked. A handful have come for sale on the used audio sites. Thank you for the clarification alandbush. I'm still trying to get all this stuff straight. So I'm guessing JRiver is another of these web based controllers, like Kinsky and Kazoo that you already mentioned? Are there any clear favorites among these or just personal preference? Will these all work with Lightning DS as the server, and do you need to download any thing else to get one of these controllers to work from your laptop of computer? If Auralic is really coming out with their own web-based controller that will work with the mini, maybe I would prefer to go that route anyway.
  15. So this limited web interface still offers no control over searching music library, creating playlists, etc?
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