Navigation / Share Settings

The Navigation / share settings tab of UMS allow you to determine the details of how UMS shares the content to your device. Below are the options that are available on this tab.

Thumbnails, covers art, artworks

• Generate thumbnails
  Select the checkbox for automatic creation of thumbnail pictures of your media files.
• Thumbnail seeking position (in seconds)
  Most video files begin with some seconds of a black background before the movie starts. You can set the time in seconds for the video thumbnail position.
• Image thumbnails
  Choose whether or not to show thumbnails of images.
• Use MPlayer for video thumbnails
  The external program MPlayer sometimes yields better results for thumbnail creation than the default thumbnailer, so just try it.
• DVD ISO thumbnails
  Create thumbnails for DVD ISO-images
• Audio thumbnails import
  Choose how to get thumbnails for audio files (cover art), none or download them from Cover Art Archive.
• Alternate video cover art folder
  Select the folder on your filesystem which contains cover art for videos.

Note: The cover art need to be named as their movie with the exact same name but with ".cover.jpg" or ".cover.png" added at the end, or with a new "jpg" or "png" extension. Example: Moonlight.mkv.cover.jpg or Moonlight.jpg
In the case of audio files, folder.jpg, folder.png or with "albumart" in the name and a "jpg" extension will also make these files be used as cover art.
In any case, your covers art will be used first, and UMS will generate them only if they are missing.
Alternatively, you can also use an external software to tag your media and UMS will use these tags informations.

File sorting / naming

• File order
  Determines the order of listed content when a client browses a folder.
  It can be by alphabetical A-Z, by date (newest first), by reverse date (oldest first), by ASCIIbetical (i.e. using ASCII code values), by alphanumeric (a.k.a. natural sort e.g. "Season 2" before "Season 10"), randomly or no sorting at all.
• Ignore articles "a" and "the" while sorting
  Controls whether or not to ignore the word "a" and "the" while sorting files.
• Prettify filenames
  Controls whether or not to automatically rename filenames to be more readable by removing superfluous information from them such as release group, quality, source, etc.
• Use info from www.OpenSubtitles.org
  This appends episode titles and movie years from IMDb to the file name.
  For example, the file "Show.Name.S01E01.HDTV-GroupName" will show up as "Show Name - 101 - Episode Title".

Virtual folders / files

• Hide file extensions
  Some people might get confused if they see file extensions like jpg or avi, so you can hide them.
• Do not add engine names to filenames
  UMS can stream your media file with different technologies. You can chose the technology (transcoding engine) in virtual folder #- Transcode -#. The default transcoding engine for playback is displayed after the name of each media file. With this checkbox you can hide that.
• Hide empty folders
  Only display folders which contain media files.
• Show iTunes library
  Displays the iTunes library as a folder on your device so you can browse it.
  Only available when iTunes is installed.
• Show iPhoto library
  Displays the iPhoto library as a folder on your device so you can browse it.
  Only available when iPhoto is installed.
• Show Aperture library
  Displays each Aperture library as a folder on your device so you can browse it.
  Only available on Mac when aperture is installed.
• Enable the cache
  When you browse folders on your renderer, UMS scans each folder in real time and displays the results on your renderer. Additionaly there is a builtin cache which can be activated. If you scan your hard drive for media files, additional info for each file will be collected e.g. MP3 tags (title, album name, etc.) for MP3 audio files. You can browse the cache in a virtual folder on your renderer after scanning.
• Reset cache
  If the cache is corrupt you can use this feature to reset the contents of the database.
• Hide the "Cache" folder
  Do not show this virtual folder on your device.
• Browse compressed archives (zip,rar,etc.)
  If activated UMS is able to show the content of archives. If a media file in archive is chosen for playback it will be decompressed before streaming starts.
• Hide the "Server Settings" folder
  There is a virtual folder available called "video settings". You can navigate to this folder on your device and change some values for UMS online. With this option you can choose to not display this virtual folder.
• Hide the "Transcode" folder
  You can choose to not show this virtual folder on your device.
• Hide the "Live Subtitles" folder
  Whether to hide the Live Subtitles folder on clients. The contents of the folder provide access to stream subtitles from the Internet via www.opensubtitles.org
• Minimum item limit before using A-Z folders
  Specifies how many items must be in a folder before we create virtual subfolders for each letter.
• Hide the "New Media" folder
  Control visibility of the New Media folder on clients; contents of the folder provide access to all un-watched (new) media.
• Enable video resuming
  Whether videos should be resumable by playing their "Resume:" files.
• Hide the "Recently Played" folder
  Control visibility of the Recently Played folder on clients; contents of the folder provide access to the most recently played media.
• Fully played action
  What to do with a file after it has been fully played. The following options are available:
  • Do nothing
  • Mark media
    Add a thumbnail overlay or prefix the media name
  • Hide video
  • Move file to a different folder
    The directory to move fully played files to.
  • Move file to recycle/trash bin

Shared folders

By default all local drives are made available to renderers by UMS. In a more secure environment you might want to chose the folders which are presented to your renderer.

• Press the yellow folder icon to add folder(s) that can be accessed by web interfaces and renderers.
• Press the red cross icon to remove access to the selected folder(s).
• Press up and down green arrows to change order of these folders.
• Press the green magnifying glass to start a scan on your hard drive for media files to collect informations about them in the cache.
  ⚠️ Depending on your libraries size that could take a very long time the first time you will run a scan !
• Monitor played status of files
  List of folders to be monitored for the addition of their contents to the New Media folder.

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