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After starting and when it's scanning media files, it oonly gets so far and then just exist.
Does that 2 or 3 times and then finally seems to finish
Restarted Win 10 PC and no difference

Attached debug file is after it seems to complete

Thanks!!!

I had 2 UMS.CONF files, one in ProgramData and one in Program Files. Neither had that "file_extensions_ignored =" line

I'm wondering (guessing) that installing 15.3 didn't add the new CONF configurations????

Howerver, I uninstalled 15.3, wiped the data and program folders and re ...

We also added the ability to ignore files based on their extensions, ...

How do I enter extensions that I don't want to display in the play list?

I have a lot of movie and music folders with cover art or other material (.jpg, .jpeg, txt, ...) that I like to keep with the main folder (usually a ...

FWIW, I finally found a UMS entry for 169.254.100.1 in UMS Network Devices

I still don't have any idea wha it is. PING doesn't show any response, and my Cable Modem/WiFi doesn't list it either


https://ibb.co/gYKs9YG

Googled that IP

FWIW, it might be some device on my network. Maybe.

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19:29:01 WARN Device descriptor retrieval failed, no response: http://169.254.100.1:50755/ebf5a0a0-1dd ... b832f5.xml

I see this WARNing in my log files, but I have no idea what that IP address is. Everything seems to be working

I can't play MKV files using Edge or Chrome,

Windows 10 up to date

Example of the link
http://10.0.0.97:9002/player/play/34114

MP4 play OK, and the MKV play in VLC and on the TV

Is there a setting I need to change?

Thanks

Edit -- Never mind - I had [Disable all transcoding] checked since I ...

Hopefully simple question

I'm using ver 14.0.2

I added a bunch of folders to share and I don't understand completely what some of the columns are for

This is an example

Type = Folder (got it)
Path = blank ????
Name = blank ????
Source = the folder (got it)
Status = Checked ????
Enable ...

Any chance?

I just did a clean install and it was a little tedious to add 14-15 folders one at a time selecting a different drvie and folder, and then rearranging the in the 'right' order by moving each folder up of down one at a time

I keep all my various media on my M: drive

When I need to add folders [Shared Content], [Folders - Add] always opens to Document and I have to navidate to M:\ ...

Not a big deal but a minor inconvience that gets annoying after awhile

It'd be'nice if ...

1. there were a setting for the starting ...