TwonkyVision

How does it work?

The TwonkyMedia can scan your hard drivefor music, picture and video content. It automatically extracts the available metadata. For WAV files a file naming schema is supported, which enables you to provide information about the title, album and artist of the music track.

The TwonkyMedia is integrated with existing media management tools like Winamp, iTunes and Photoshop Album. It utilizes the metadata libraries of these tools. Playlists created with Winamp or the Windows Media Player can be imported by the MediaServer as well.

For client devices that do not directly support Internet radio, the TwonkyMedia acts as a proxy and translates Internet radio stations. For these clients each radio station is interpreted as one never-ending MP3 song that can be selected and played like a locally available piece of music.

From the avialable metadata TwonkyMedia automatically creates a navigation tree.

Navigation on music collections

TwonkyMedia provides you with a much more flexible navigation structure than any other media server. Most media servers just organize your music according to your own folder structure and some organize your tracks into the categories artist, album, genre, and all tracks. TwonkyMedia provides you by default with further navigation levels including categories like genre/artist, artist/album, year/album, year/artist, and alpha/artist. Alpha group search is convenient when your client device only has a small display.

Twonkymedia handles compilations separately, so that it does not create separate artist entries for each song of a compilation.

Pictures and Videos

For picturesTwonkyMedia supports inbuilt transcoding of all kinds of requested picture sizes and picture formats, for example, transcoding of JPEG pictures to YUV for the Sony clients. Pictures are initially poor on metadata, but you may use Adobe Photoshop Album to add descriptions and apply your own set of tags. TwonkyMedia imports descriptions and tag information from this application and utilizes it to build your personalized navigation structure based on your tags. If there are no tags provided for your pictures, TwonkyMedia will use the folder view, which is also used for video content.

Content formats

Music: MP3, WMA, WAV, 3GP, M4A, MP4, LPCM, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP2, AC3, MPA, MP1, AIF, ASF
Photo: JPEG, PNG, TIF, BMP, GIF
Video: MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG2-TS, MPEG4, AVI, WMV, VOB, DivX, 3GP, VDR, ASF, MPE, DVR-MS, Xvid, M1V, M4V
Internet Radio: vTuner, Shoutcast
Playlists: WPL, PLS, M3U