BlackArmor NAS Network Storage Server

[ZRootWizard]

I'm trying to copy all my video and music files to their respective folders on the NAS under the \public\Our Music and \public\Our Videos directories.  Thing is, all of the music and video files are being stripped out of their respective folders and placed at the root of the above directories - none of them are staying in their categorized directories.  Is this normal behavior?

Also, are there any pointers to how the media servers work (DLNA and iTunes both) for this product?  I would love to understand the internals (Ie. file formats, storage options, directory dos and don'ts, client support, and a massive host of other things).  Seems the documentation is a bit lacking in most areas.

Thanks in advance,

ZRootWizard

[ClearSkies]

Zroot, I think I can answser the first part.  It sounds like you have "drag and sort" enabled on the share that you are putting the music and files.  If you do it will auto sort files based on type and other critera. 

To automatically sort saved video, audio and picture files, beside Drag&Sort Service, select Enable. Files are sorted based on their type and then placed in one of three folders: Pictures, Music, Videos.

You would obvioiusly want to UNCHECK enable. 

As to the rest of your question, I think that's more about personal preferance than anything else.  Similar to setting up your folders and files in File Explorer on your hard drive, you would decide how they should be sorted.   When you use the media share in iTunes for instance, it see the drive and allows you to go into the folders to select what you want.

Hope that helps.

[Q.P.]

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ZRootWizard wrote:

I'm trying to copy all my video and music files to their respective folders on the NAS under the \public\Our Music and \public\Our Videos directories.  Thing is, all of the music and video files are being stripped out of their respective folders and placed at the root of the above directories - none of them are staying in their categorized directories.  Is this normal behavior?

Also, are there any pointers to how the media servers work (DLNA and iTunes both) for this product?  I would love to understand the internals (Ie. file formats, storage options, directory dos and don'ts, client support, and a massive host of other things).  Seems the documentation is a bit lacking in most areas.

Thanks in advance,

ZRootWizard

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I have the same issue with a BA110 with firmware 1000.1081. I don't see an option to turn off the default sorting. I've seen a "drag & sort" option discussed in the manual, but there is no such option in the GUI that I can find.

Can we fix this via SSH? (I have SSH access thanks to Hajo.)

[AskTheLeaf]

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Q.P. wrote:

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ZRootWizard wrote:

I'm trying to copy all my video and music files to their respective folders on the NAS under the \public\Our Music and \public\Our Videos directories.  Thing is, all of the music and video files are being stripped out of their respective folders and placed at the root of the above directories - none of them are staying in their categorized directories.  Is this normal behavior?

Also, are there any pointers to how the media servers work (DLNA and iTunes both) for this product?  I would love to understand the internals (Ie. file formats, storage options, directory dos and don'ts, client support, and a massive host of other things).  Seems the documentation is a bit lacking in most areas.

Thanks in advance,

ZRootWizard

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I have the same issue with a BA110 with firmware 1000.1081. I don't see an option to turn off the default sorting. I've seen a "drag & sort" option discussed in the manual, but there is no such option in the GUI that I can find.

Can we fix this via SSH? (I have SSH access thanks to Hajo.)

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The earlier firmware versions didn't have the option available.

Your NAS should have version 1000.1221 installed in order for it to work. To upgrade, please access the following website:

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=ba-nas-110&vgnextoid=174af1ec4d173210VgnVCM1...

[Rakon]

"Also, are there any pointers to how the media servers work (DLNA and iTunes both) for this product? "

=> The big problem is that the Seagate BlackArmor NAS is NOT compliant with DLNA (despite the advertising mentioned it) !!!

     Especially most of video formats are not supported by the last two firmware releases (NAS 110: 1000.1211 and 1000.1221).

Best Firmware for MediaPlay was the 3rd latest (for NAS 110 : 1000.1081; FW-build from 12/2010):

*.AVI, *.VOB, *.M2TS supported (M2TS interrupted, too high CPU-load at NAS obviously).

Disadvantage / problem : After activation, the Media-Server always stops after approx. 5 min. if no movie served 

-.> need to deactivate and activate again, then active for another 5 min.

But follower firmware was an extreme step back to a very poor support of video codecs, unbelieveable !

I would prefer to get a firmware based on 1000.1081 with solved issue of self-deactivating MediaServer,

or to get back to this video-codec compatibility with a new firmware !

@Seagate specialists : Was the DLNA server SW changed after firmware 1000.1081 ?

[vloenen]

I'm now quite sure why some folders don't show up in media players. I've tried a lot of things to work this out. One thing I noticed was that music albums, which were present in the folders which were not shown, were present under 'music". My hypothesis now is that if the mediaplayer finds music in a folder, it considers it a music folder and will not show it under Videos. Therefore, put music in a seperate folder.

Another thing that may be part of the problem is the number of files, but I'm not sure of this.