Paddy97 used our news submit to tell us "This is a great UPnP server. Works like a charm and is
much more flexible then Nero's version."
TwonkyMedia is a DLNA Certified™ MediaServer. With
this system you can share all your Music, Pictures and Videos with standard
UPnP-enabled client devices throughout your home. A pure music version,
TwonkyMusic is available as well.
The products offer support for Windows XP,
Macintosh and Linux and also for a number of Network Attached Storage devices
(NAS). This gives you the option to share your content without using a PC or
having a PC online all the time.
 Easy to
setup
- support for major media
formats
- convenient navigation on large media
collections
- very short response
time
- multiple language
support
- highly customizable (including
navigation structure)
- easy handling of thousands of media
items
- Internet radio
- interfaces to 3rd party applications
like iTunes, Winamp, Adobe Photoshop Album
- integrated control point for web-based
media access
- integrated recorder for Internet
radio
- synchronize the same music on several
media players throughout the home
- search actions allow you to easily find
a specific piece of content (depending on client support)
supports a
large variety of UPnP streaming clients (see our device compatibility
list)
- integrated client adaptation layer to
support special media player capabilities
- available for all operating systems and
embedded devices like NAS, STBs and PVRs*
- small footprint and very small memory
consumption
- stable code base deployed in various
products and tested at UPnP and DLNA plugfests.
How does it
work?
The MediaServer can scan your HD for
music, picture and video content. It hereby automatically extracts the
available metadata. For WAV files a filename naming schema is supported
which enables you to provide information about Title, Album and Artist of
the music track.
In addition the MediaServer is integrated
with existing Media Management tools like Winamp, iTunes or Photoshop
Album. It utilizes the metadata libraries of these tools. Playlists
created with Winamp or the Windows Media Player can be imported by the
MediaServer as well.
For client devices which do not directly
support Internet Radio, the MediaServer acts as a proxy and translates
Internet Radio Stations. For these clients each Radio Station looks like
one never ending MP3 song which can be selected and played like a normal
locally available piece of music.
From the avalable metadata the MediaServer
automatically creates a navigation
tree. |
They have a trial
download so that you can make sure this will work with your current
hardware. Unfortunately, the trial times out after 30 minutes, so this is not a
lot of time to check out the performance.
Source: TwonkyVision
