Experience Level: Standard

Asset is a free media server which improves the audio streaming capabilities of Windows Home Server.

Typically audio files are stored on a server and multiple audio devices around the network can play audio from the server (devices such as Linn DS, XBox 360, PS3, etc).

Asset features:

• Designed from the ground up as an audio UPnP server,
• Album Art support,
• Customizable browse tree with advanced search facilities (Album by Release, Style, Composer, Conductor…),
• Configurable Wave / LPCM decoding (no quality loss) for devices which cannot play specific audio types,
• ReplayGain can be applied to Wave / LPCM stream, volume matching across tracks for devices which have no support,
• Extensive tagging ’standards’ compatibility,
• Wide-ranging audio support: mp3, FLAC, Apple Lossless, WMA (inc Lossless), m4a, AIFF, Wave
• Windows Home Server (WHS) specific install, with WHS Connector configuration,
• Windows 2000 / XP / Vista compatible,
• Runs efficiently in the background detecting new & changed tracks (as service),
• Free

Developer: Illustrate

More Info: Download | Support Forums

Release History

v2.1 (8th January 2010)

• Streaming Fix, compatible with Reciva line of devices
• Registered install able to register on installs where default install path was not used.

v2 (Beta) 27th May 2009

• Added Internet Radio (in Asset Configuration >> Advanced >> Edit >> Restore the browse tree to add internet radio).
• compatible with denon systems
• keeps a static port address, this allows items in a play list to be kept through restarts of Asset
• When updating tags keeps the track ID the same (allows an item stored in playlist to remain)
• album art handled much more efficiently – only one saved per album, also single art url given out for control points (will speed up a track listing where all album arts are the same)
• Internal Tag reader will self quit when main program terminated
• Automatic ‘drilling down’ to next level, for example have tree as Artist (no listing) >> A to Z >> D, previously A to Z would have to be selected, no it does not
• added mp3 encoding option
• bug fix: ps3 and streaming would play the track too short: bitrates were off (and PS3 uses these)
• bug fix: would close asset when a user was logged off (even though asset was running as a service)
• bug fix: tag reader could leave the file open
• bug fix: could return restricted for metadata browse on an item

v1.1

• Windows media audio (inc lossless) added to WHS install
• Bug fix for where tracks could appear multiple times (do ‘Rescan (Refresh all)’ if have duplicated tracks)
• Bug fix compilation ‘0′ tag was being picked up as a compilation

V1.0

• Inital release

Experience Level: Advanced

PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant uPnP Media Server for the PlayStation 3, written in Java, with the purpose of streaming or transcoding any kind of media files, with minimum configuration. It’s backed up by the powerful Mplayer/ FFmpeg packages.

The PS3 Media Server For WHS Add-in allows you to access your PS3 Media Server through the Window Home Server Console. This will allow you configure the media streaming settings and restart the service if you have any issues without logging on via remote desktop.

Installation Instructions

- Download PS3 Media Server from http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/
- Install PS3 Media Server to your Windows Home Server by remote desktop
- Install PS3 Media Server For WHS via Windows Home Server Console

Upgrade Instructions

- Uninstall the PS3 Media Server For WHS Add-in
- Install PS3 Media Server For WHS via Windows Home Server Console

Developer: Nabeday

More Info: Download | Support Forum

Release History

v1.0.2 (25.04.09)

• IMPORTANT BUG FIX to prevent WHS Console Showing Green Screen and crashing.

v1.0.1 (20.04.09)

• Corrected Open PS3 Media Server Restore when moving between console tabs.
• Fixed failure with Restart Service if service is stopped.
• Modified Restart Service Error Message.
• Correct Status Issue When PS3 Media Server is open in the console.

v1.0 (18.04.2009)

• Initial release

Experience Level: Advanced

With Power Pack 2 for the Windows Media Server a new configuration application for fine-tuning media shares and which devices have access was included. Unfortunately Microsoft did not make the UI as an add-in and you need to remote desktop into your server to start the UI (c:\program files\media connect\WMCCFG.exe).

This Add-In simply appempts to start the Media Connect Configuration application (wmccfg.exe) and then docks the UI inside the WHS Console. There are still some bugs and you sometimes need to change to another tab and back before the UI docks correctly.

Developer: Pål Andreassen

More Info: Download | Support Forum

Release History

v1.0.0.1

• Initial Release