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The revision history below lists new features of the individual TwonkyMedia versions. For further information on other changes and bug fixes see the more detailed Release Notes.

Latest version: 4.4.4        
         
 
 
 
What's new in Version 4.4.4
 
 
  • Clients are now enabled/disabled based on MAC addresses
  • Additional client support
    • Denon AVR 3808
    • LT-H90
    • PC-P1LAN
    • PC-P4LAN
  • Additional file types supported
    • *.m2p, *.m2v, *.mp2t, *.mp2p, *.mpg
 
What's new in Version 4.4
 
 
  • PS3 support (MP3,WMA,JPG,MPEG1,MPEG2,some MPEG4,DivX,WMV), no Internet Radio possible
  • XBox360 DivX support
  • Intel MAC support
  • new mediabrowser generating HTML pages
 
What's new in Version 4.3
 
 
  • Support for XBox 360 spring release:
    • folder browse on videos
    • mpeg4 and aac support,
    • resume on videos
  • revised license handling through CD Keys
  • support for Nokia N95 including upload
  • changed default sort to: +upnp:artist,+upnp:album,+upnp:originalTrackNumber,+dc:date,+dc:title
  • fixed enableweb=3, needs DYNDNS setting as well
  • TwonkyMusic is discontinued
 
What's new in Version 4.2
 
 
  • client device security (enable/disable server access per client)
  • web configuration pages can now be secured by username/password
  • faster scan times
  • enable/disable folder shares without removing them
  • simpler setup (pre-select most common used navigation trees)
  • support for .wmv video streaming for XBOX360
  • support for WMP11 on VISTA
  • added subtitle support for Philips streamium clients
  • revised client configuration (no longer single settings for each client needed)
  • support for Album Art files created by WMP
  • improved mpeg4 metadata scanner
  • additional content formats
  • additional clients supported
 
What's new in Version 4.1
 
 
  • Support for .mov and .tp files
  • Changed wording on update license information
  • Shoutcast scanner is no longer invoked every minute
 
What's new in Version 4.0
 
 
  • Enhanced, more user-friendly config pages (e.g. browse to content directory)
  • Inbuilt MediaBrowser
  • New content formats and enhaced support
    • RSS feeds (feeds for all local music and for Shoutcast radio stations)
    • Podcasts via iTunes
    • 3gp, m4a, mp4 audio
    • 3gp video
    • support for embedded thumbnails from JPEG pictures (no scaling required here)
    • support for VLC via special video playlists
    • Playlist folders (iTunes 6)
  • New tags
  • Additional client support
    • support for Philips SLA5520
    • support for YAMAHA Network Receiver
    • support for ACTIVY Media Player 150t
    • autodetection of TG100 and enhanced support (track title display and faster track change on play all)
  • Enhanced architecture
    • support for database plugins to import data from different sources
    • support for file system eventing (Windows and inotify on Linux)
    • support for CGI and transcoder plugins
    • DLNA: support for create object and destroy object
    • support for Asian character sets ( UTF8 support for db and file system)
  • Additional configuration options
    • cachedir and cachemaxsize for transcoded files
    • alpha group now supported for %PATH
    • powersavemode
 
What's new in Version 3.1
 
 
  • Internet radio for Xbox 360™
  • Magic playlist resolver allows to copy playlists between different OS
  • Easy setup of favorite radio stations
  • Improved DivX streaming
 
What's new in Version 3.0
 
 
  • UIC certified (UPnP Logo)
  • DLNA CERTIFIED™
  • XBOX 360 support (music, pictures)
  • support for vTuner Internet Radio
  • multiroom support through the - now playing - playlist
    (when selecting this item you can listen to the same music which you have selected on another device)
  • FLAC support
  • multilanguage support
  • performance enhancements
  • memory enhancements (mem usage reduced by 50%)
  • improved video streaming
  • improved client detection
  • support for additional clients like BridgeCo and Syabas Firmware based clients
  • transcoding for FLAC and mp3
  • support for new macro %KEYWORD to read in special comments
    (musicnode10=Rating,%KEYWORD and using iTunes allows you to navigate through your songs by rating)
  • improved Adobe Photoshop Album configuration (only path to .psa file required)
 
What's new in Version 2.9.1
   
 

This release does not provide any new features, just a few bug fixes:

  • a memory leak on MPEG4 playback fixed
  • broken picture support for TG100 fixed
  • OGG Vobis parser for lowercase tags fixed
 
What's new in Version 2.9
   
 
  • Installer and configuration UI for Windows and MAC
  • Live365 Internet Radio support (by playlists)
  • more NAS devices supported
  • easy NAS installer for NSLU2
  • Dreambox and LinVDR support
  • new followlinks option for UNIX/Linux systems
  • .net compliance
 
What's new in Version 2.8
   
 
  • Ogg Vorbis support
  • Improved streaming support for Netgear MP101 (RTP/RTSP)
  • New client devices, such as Telegent TG100, MP115 and others
  • Shuffle mode for Philips streamium devices
  • Improved DivX suppport for DSM-320
  • Genre Filter for Shoutcast Radio Stations
 
What's new in Version 2.7.1
   
 
  • 2.7 problem with some Shoutcast stations fixed
 
What's new in Version 2.7
   
 
  • Server sends data no longer with max speed given by network, but only with max required speed by the codec (if info is available) (should fix the Netgear problem)I
  • Improved playlist support to locate files from playlist when playlist have been moved across systems (for m3u)
  • Rescale of pictures can be disabled for NAS devices with low memory (option norescale)
 
What's new in Version 2.6
   
 
  • Separate .ini files for music and media server
  • Search for Roku clients
  • Changed logfile format and added timestamp
  • Database file is read and written asynchronously to improve performance of persistante db
   
What's new in Version 2.5
   
 
  • Highly customizable tree view for the MediaServer (see here for details)
  • Support for iTunes and iPod
  • Support for compilations
  • New content types
    • WAV files
    • WPL and PLS playlists
  • New options
    • user defined name of the server (Media Server only)
    • HTTP server port (-httpport)
    • location of server .ini file
    • security settings for web configuration page
  • Support for additional client features
    • Roku search functions (except composer)
    • Streamium quick positioning (Letter Keys) and Thumbnails
    • Netgear upgrades (server can ne used to upgrade Netgear clients)
  • Title and other strings are 'cleaned' (e.g. adjustment of upper/lower case)
  • Content directories can be limited to music, pictures or video content for a specific folder tree
  • Rescan can be triggered manually
  • Winamp library and playlists can now be imported and used by the standalone version of the MediaServer. Therefore the winamp plugin is no longer supported
   
What's new in Version 2.4
   
 
  • no new features, just bug fix for support of streamium and LinkSys clients
   
What's new in Version 2.3
   
 
  • Apple Macintosh support
  • full working internal web pages to configure MediaServer
  • new option ignoredir to disable content scanner on subdirectories with special substrings
  • "All Stations" entry under Internet Radio
   
What's new in Version 2.2
   
 
  • Go.Video networked DVD player support
  • support for SMC devices
  • NSLU2 LinkSys Media Server binary
  • randomization of playlists via config option
  • added "ALL" entry to music tree view
  • DB sort is now case insensitive
  • autodetect of clients like Netgear to adjust main menu and shortcut buttons per client
  • contentdir list is now a comma separated list
  • first draft of a presentation page which enables configuration via a web browser
  • support for iTunes lib
  • added new options to commandline and configfile:
    • randomize playlists
    • restart server on NIC change
    • always use current working directory for DB
    • error mp3 file for non working radio stations
  • .ini file handling and lots of options have changed
  • Radio Stations are now always read by the server from a .ini file
    a new tool - getshoutcast - is provided to create this file for one time
   
What's new in Version 2.1
   
 
  • daemon flag for Linux version (-D)
  • up to three content directories with parameters contentdir1, contentdir2, contentdir3
   
What's new in Version 2.0
   
 
  • support for WMA (only non DRM protected files)
  • support for descriptions in pictures
  • support for scaling of pictures
  • support for YUV transcoding of pictures for Sony clients
  • support for videos (various formats)
  • improved Internet Radio support
  • improved handling of .ini file
  • special support for Netgear MP101 quick keys
  • special support for D-Link root menu
  • more supported clients (e.g. LinkSys)
  • support of Adobe Photoshop Album
  • trial version of the enhanced Media Server
  • directory scan under windows is replaced by a directory change event
    routine - no unnecessary background scans any longer
  • for UNIX the rescan time can be adjusted by the commandline
  • improved handling of failed Internet Radio connections
  • support of complex search strings as issued by Sony clients, which
    ignore the getSearchCapabilities response
   
What's new in Version 1.07
   
 
  • after the last UPnP plugfest we are now compliant to Philips streamium devices
  • fixed playlist support for UNIX versin
  • new Winamp plugin for a renderer - now Winamp can play files from the server when used together with a Control Point like the one from the Intel Tools for UPnP Technologies
  • for albums and other music containers we now generate for the client a M3U file. It should be easier for clients now to play complete album's and not only the first track. Unfortunately the Netgear MP101does not make use of this feature.
   
What's new in Version 1.06
   
 
  • LINUX version much improved now -> tested on Fedora, Debian and Suse
  • new option -ip to bind the server to a specific NIC
  • new options to give server side sort strings for containers, music tracks and pictures, playlist sort order is never altered (see readme.txt for details)
  • default sort for track now uses track number as main sort criteria
  • enhanced threading, more robust HTTP handling
   
What's new in Version 1.05
   
 
  • Linux version of the Media Server!
  • Support for low latency networks
  • Automaticall rescan of shared directories
  • Better organized tree view now available for a small registration fee
   
What's new in Version 1.04
   
 
  • Support for Shoutcast radio streaming
  • NT-Service version of the standalone server
  • Support for special characters
  • Unsorted requests are now translated as "sort alphabetically" (for MP101)
  • Support for the MP101 search function
   
What's new in Version 1.03
   
 
  • Disabled chunked encoding for compability with Netgear MP101
  • Picture support for the standalone Server version
  • Compability with newest Intel Tools which require CR/LF in XML files