Answered Panasonic Allplay problem

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I have an Allplay system consisting of 3 ALL3 Panasonic speakers. The system works great if I set it to play music from my PC hard drive, or if I use my Nexus Android tablet, but if I run the app on my Samsung S7 Galaxy phone it only plays a percentage of each track before skipping to the next one. The only difference I can think of is that the phone has all my music stored on micro SD and the Nexus only allows internal storage to be used. There is not enough memory in the Nexus to store all of my music, and if I play albums from PC the tracks get played in alphabetical order instead of the correct track order which is very annoying. Does anybody know why the tracks should skip on the S7?
 
A faulty or corrupt micro SD card, perhaps?

BTW, the Panasonic Music Streaming app doesn't actually have the abiity to select music files directly from your PC's hard drive and relies on a UPnP/DLNA media server to provide the files instead.

Seeing as you didn't appear to be aware of this, I'm guessing you are using a Windows PC & therefore the built-in Windows DLNA media server that comes bundled with Windows Media Player. It often gets confused with the computer's network shared file folder server, since Microsoft give it the same computer's network name by default and is enabled undercover when you turn on Windows media streaming.

The Windows DLNA media server has never been considered reliable for streaming music files and you are better off installing and using a decent music file dedicated UPnP/DLNA media server on the computer instead, such as the free MinimServer:
MinimServer
 
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Hi Cebolla and thanks your input much appreciated. I had suspected that the card might be the issue. I'm a newbie to streaming systems so I'm guessing that if I install the MinimServer it simply replaces the windows server and I still operate in the same way, using the Allplay app to access the PC library, is that correct? Any additional setup required?
 
Indeed.

Unlike the Windows DLNA server, which always assumes your music files are located in your user music folder, to get MinimServer going you have to explicitly set it up to tell it where your music files are stored (highest level folder(s)), in the the contentDir property edit box in the Server tab (right click on the MinimServer icon in the taskbar and select the Properties menu item to display the MinimServer Properties popup window):
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For further info refer to the online MinimServer user manual:
Running MinimServer - Reading audio files
 
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Thanks cebolla, I have not bothered about using my pc and it's music files to stream locally.. but your information might just give me the impetus.
 
Big thanks Cebolla! :clap: Minimserver works great and currently have that on my home PC. Having had an introduction to UPnP/DNLA I am now doing some exploring. I've currently got a trial copy of Serviio on another PC and that seems to be really impressive, in fact I may well purchase the Pro version. Any other free/low cost options you could recommend to try? As you can tell I'm not the sort of guy to plump for the first solution that comes along ;)
 
Serviio is an all media UPnP/DLNA media server and has a very good reputation. However, as with most of the all media servers, Serviio's focus is mainly on providing video and serving video players and their controller apps.

The user requirements for playing music are totally different to that for video: easy searching & navigation through specialised music categories (eg album, artist, composer, genre, etc), ability to build different combinations & types of music file track playlists, access to music only online streaming services including internet radio, advanced clear/unhidden optional music file transcoding functions for all the best known audio formats including the latest and hi-res audio, etc.

So specifically for music files, I would advise using a well supported specialised music file only UPnP/DLNA media server such as MinimServer.

Another similar music file dedicated UPnP/DLNA media server worth looking at is Asset UPnP:
Asset UPnP DLNA
 
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I'll second @Cebolla suggestions.

If you want to fiddle and try other things then add BubbleUPNP server alongside either of those. BubbleUPNP adds superior functionality to DLNA streamers by emulating an openhone streamer. If you then use BubbleUPNP on your phone to control it (or another Openhome controller app) you'll get a better experience than just vanilla DLNA, mainly for playlist management and the ability to control using multiple control apps on different devices

BubbleUPnP Server
 

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