Revo Mondo and Serving Network Shared mp3’s via UPnP 2
After much agonising over DAB and various Internet Streaming devices, I recently bought a Revo Mondo Wireless Network Internet Radio Streaming device.
And it’s very liberating – I find myself listening to all sorts of new radio I would never have got around to finding before.
Obviously you can listen to streamed radio from all over the world, all the various “Listen Again” items on the various BBC Radio sites, plus play mp3 and other audio media stored elsewhere on my home network.
Network sharing of mp3 media was a major reason for getting the device. The standard way the Revo Mondo does this is for you to navigate to the network share where your mp3’s are stored. It then scans them and stores a cache index file away on that network share so that the process is quicker next time around. All of which is quite nice (if you don’t know any better).
But having to grant write access to the network share just so that the Radio streamer can store its cache file is clearly arse. There has to be a better way…
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