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Questions / Re: How to get MB map NAS drive through the internet?

« on: August 22, 2020, 08:36:17 PM »

VPN for just listening your own music? (aside from the speed through a VPN)

If I set up a proper media server could MB use it to play my music? I came to MB because I like it and I think this is the best music player around.
But why would a music player can't do what it is for: play my music on my drive - including through the internet? We are well inside the 21st century - c'mon, our everyday life is based on the internet...

This is a pretty rude attitude IMO.

Those are facts - facts usually don't have emotional attributes, although one can assign to them any...
On the other side "Go, search Google" can be rude "IMHO" - but I didn't take it as such...

Anyway its getting away from the question asked so I'll leave this as it is

thanx

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Questions / Re: How to get MB map NAS drive through the internet?

« on: August 22, 2020, 06:33:44 PM »

You'll have to do the research yourself, which is why I directed you to Google.

I did google it in the first place - and got links to this forum Heck it makes sense to read MB forums if I have problem with MB  I thought... I searched the forum and I read all NAS related posts before posting myself
(I did not search and read for DLNA here because my concern was NAS on MB - of course soon it got to dlna/upnp. I'm not a total idiot for computers but I only learn what I need to as I'm not an it professional. Until now I have not needed to get into servers, streaming.)
 
And MB is here for some time with millions using it for many years and some are expert in it. It is usually not out of the blue thing to ask the community - usually that's what the forums for.

DLNA only works over LAN, not the Internet.

Yes, I searched and found it out now - but this is still not the question (neither the answer)

If I set up a proper media server could MB use it to play my music? I came to MB because I like it and I think this is the best music player around.
But why would a music player can't do what it is for: play my music on my drive - including through the internet? We are well inside the 21st century - c'mon, our everyday life is based on the internet...

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Questions / Re: How to get MB map NAS drive through the internet?

« on: August 22, 2020, 04:07:55 PM »

My NAS drive has DLNA - it also works with my TV.
Can this help anyway - if yes how I can put it to work?

Actually as you can see above the NAS drive can also stream to iTunes and act as an iTunes Server... I guess they thought that all others would or should be  served by the DLNA.

(Unfortunately there is no MuscBee server available on the NAS )

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Questions / Re: How to get MB map NAS drive through the internet?

« on: August 22, 2020, 03:53:12 PM »

But you're asking about using a desktop application - not designed for streaming ....

No I didn't do that I was asking about any possible way - desktop application or any other, wouldn't mind if streaming or not

I mentioned it before and I'll mention it again: SubSonic.

I use it when I'm traveling (not in the car, but in hotels, etc.) and I -do not- use MB's SubSonic plugin as it's never worked well for me.
I have my music tracks on a NAS and I set up the SubSonic server on a Windows PC and pointed it to the files on the NAS. I can access my music, using a web browser or Android app. The only issue you may have is that you need a (mostly) static IP address. There are applications out there that will notify you if your IP address changes. My ISP hasn't changed my IP is roughly ten years. And I do not pay for a static IP.

http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

Static IP - Check; Access by web browser or android app - Check;

But I'd like to have MusicBee functionality and features for playing music. Now when accessing a music file through the browser it just downloads it - either I can save it or if I click "play" it downloads to a temporary folder playing.

So yes...I figure I would need to have some sort of streaming service... My NAS has DLNA and it works as my TV (also has DLNA funtionality) can can receive its stream. Things would be easy if MusicBee could recive DLNA even by a plugin.

MusicBee can play streams from the internet as easily as just giving it an URL in the menu "File/Open stream" - eg:

http://stream.tilos.hu:8000/tilos

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Questions / Re: How to get MB map NAS drive through the internet?

« on: August 22, 2020, 03:13:46 PM »

1. Given that your question isn't really about how to get MusicBee to access NAS files over the internet, but how to get Windows to access them

....I haven't seen any way of just accessing files on a NAS via a mapped drive in Windows Explorer, which is what you'd need for MusicBee to access them.

NO - Sorry I don't know where did you get this 1st thing from...Nevermind. As you can see in my last post I'm fully able to access my NAS Drive from anywhere over the internet.

As you can see also, I can access my NAS drive in a browser - and shows its content as in a file explorer.

As for the musicbee access of the properties of a track: I don't have a knowledge about it but I would imagine that it stores the track related info in a library file. Streaming through the internet is not a big thing nowadays - plenty of bandwidth for music files even over mobile networks not to mention cable networks also available away from home (where I might like to listen to my music).

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Questions / Re: How to get MB map NAS drive through the internet?

« on: August 22, 2020, 03:00:57 PM »

Expose your Buffalo drive to the Internet, where you can access it from outside your network, and then add it as a monitored folder.

Hi

I made Buffalo Nas accessible on the internet - I can reach it from anywhere. (see screenshot-1). But I still only have an URL. And I don't know how to add it as a monitored folder...or how to Scan the folder for music files. Adding folders for scanning or monitoring only allow to add local folders and "Network Share" which basically a drive or folder on _local_ network (see screenshot-2)

Any idea how to get the drive behind an url to be monitored or scanned - without using DLNA/UPNP  plugins/setup?

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Questions / Re: How to get MB map NAS drive through the internet?

« on: August 21, 2020, 08:50:24 PM »

My NAS drive has DLNA - it also works with my TV.
Can this help anyway - if yes how I can put it to work?

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Questions / How to get MB map NAS drive through the internet?

« on: August 21, 2020, 08:14:36 PM »

Hi
I'd like to access my music on the NAS (Buffalo) drive through the internet. (I read the NAS related topics but most of them concerned problems on home networks.) Everything works fine on my home network.


MusicBee is installed on my laptop. I'd like to use it away from home to play the music on my home NAS. The NAS has software installed for remote access (web access). It provides an URL where I can access my NAS. However, it just allows me to view the folders and files through the internet (browser) as a file explorer.

How can I get MB to map the music folder on my NAS through the internet?

Thanks for any help

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Questions / Re: Library location disappeared - NAS as mapped drive

« on: August 21, 2020, 07:59:02 PM »

This video will hopefully help - It is usually the updates of win10 - not the MB

https://youtu.be/oDtIxoCPKrI

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Questions / Re: NAS Help

« on: August 21, 2020, 07:56:58 PM »

This video will hopefully help - It is usually the updates of win10 - not the MB

https://youtu.be/oDtIxoCPKrI

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Questions / Re: Can't View NAS Drives

« on: August 21, 2020, 07:39:35 PM »

This video will hopefully help - It is the problem with new updates of win10 - not with MB

https://youtu.be/oDtIxoCPKrI