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Reverting to 14.11 does not help.
Lots of errors in the log and the UMS is crashing.
To start UMS in tracelog mode seems not to work as well.

I don't want to be impolite, but coming back to UMS after about 10 years and seeing that it is crashing, it consumes lots of CPU power and memory, throwing ...

Hi guys,

after my first try to use UMS 9 years ago I see it is developing well.
So I thought I give it a try again. I am normally using Serviio since many years.

I install the UMS AppImage 14.13.1 on an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS LXC container in Proxmox.

Installing, starting and configuring UMS is ...

Sure it cant find mplayer, but please ... in case of not finding a simple file UMS may log a warning but never throw an unhandled IOException or spam the log with the stack trace! This is really no good coding stil.

There is an unhandle exception everytime i start UMS on Linux:


INFO 19:05:23.033 [main] Checking the fontconfig cache in the background, this can take two minutes or so.
INFO 19:05:23.041 [main] Searching for plugins in /data/ums/ums-5.3.1/plugins
INFO 19:05:23.043 [main] No plugins found
ERROR ...

Any news on this topic?

How can i config UMS to only list video files in a given folder (or all sub dirs) or only pictures or only music?

Hi guys,

UMS is a nice project and working good so far.

But as you call it a "server" application you should think of replacing the config Java gui with a web Interface.
As you already have the basics with the "Client" Interface on port 9001, why not add the config stuff there too?
To be honest i ...