QQ Media Player NUC Buyers Club - Discussion

[cdheer]

I havent used a tower in my home in 15 years. Unless you need to fill it with HDDs for storage or need a super large monitor there is no reason. I have a NAS to take care of all that storage now. You can get laptops now that easily compete with most tower designs with respect to performance. I did use a small tower for work before i retired, but that was just because i did a lot with solidworks and needed the 2 big monitors. Those days are gone for me.

I at least need room for a decent GPU, so I'm stuck with a tower at the moment. But the HDDs all go into a NAS.

I am definitely thinking about getting another NUC and cloning the SSD from my Official QuadraphonicQuad Media Player™.

 

[Driver Vic]

Hi all, just got my new NUC and I've got a problem.
My desktop can see Kodi, but Kodi can't see my desktop. I have 2 desktops on this network and they talk to each other.
Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Hi all, just got my new NUC and I've got a problem.
My desktop can see Kodi, but Kodi can't see my desktop. I have 2 desktops on this network and they talk to each other.
Any advice would be much appreciated.

More information please. What are you trying to do? What operat8ng system on the desktops? Windows? Mac? Wired connections or wifi?

 

[HomerJAU]

Just trying to connect to my PC and it wants a user name and password.

Use your PC’s username and password

 

[mrcond]

I have a similar problem as above. I cannot get my NUC to find my media library on my home network. I have another NUC that I was using previously with JRiver and it found my network media library no problem. I have other players (Roku, Sonos, Cambridge streamer) that also find my media library with no issues. I feel like it must be a setting either in my new NUC or in my Windows PC (the source of the media library) that I am missing.

I have a Windows PC that is my "hub" for all my music and media, and it shares it on my WiFi network. But when I try to add media in my new NUC, nothing shows up when I browse for the library.

Also, I am not sure if this is related to the same issue, but I tried @LuvMyQuad's suggestion to see lyrics on screen and no luck with that either, it could not find lyrics. However, it does find artist pictures and info etc. Puzzling. I'm ok with techie stuff to a point but not when it involves going deep into computer menus etc.

Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[LuvMyQuad]

I have a similar problem as above. I cannot get my NUC to find my media library on my home network. I have another NUC that I was using previously with JRiver and it found my network media library no problem. I have other players (Roku, Sonos, Cambridge streamer) that also find my media library with no issues. I feel like it must be a setting either in my new NUC or in my Windows PC (the source of the media library) that I am missing.

I have a Windows PC that is my "hub" for all my music and media, and it shares it on my WiFi network. But when I try to add media in my new NUC, nothing shows up when I browse for the library.

Also, I am not sure if this is related to the same issue, but I tried @LuvMyQuad's suggestion to see lyrics on screen and no luck with that either, it could not find lyrics. However, it does find artist pictures and info etc. Puzzling. I'm ok with techie stuff to a point but not when it involves going deep into computer menus etc.

Any help would be much appreciated!

First off. There are no settings in the NUC. Both wired and wifi are enabled and there is no setting to turn them on or off.

Be sure your network is set as discoverable.

You have to be connected to the internet to get lyrics.

Im pretty sure @HomerJAU already provided a tutorial for this. In any event, heres how i do it with a wired connection.
Go to settings/media/library/music/add music/browse/zeroconf browser

At this point your library should show up in a list. Choose it. Enter a username and password. Navigate to the roor directory of your library. Choose remember for this path. Select ok

There are other ways depending on if your source is NFS enabled. Mine isnt

 

[mrcond]

First off. There are no settings in the NUC. Both wired and wifi are enabled and there is no setting to turn them on or off.

Be sure your network is set as discoverable.

You have to be connected to the internet to get lyrics.

Im pretty sure @HomerJAU already provided a tutorial for this. In any event, heres how i do it with a wired connection.
Go to settings/media/library/music/add music/browse/zeroconf browser

At this point your library should show up in a list. Choose it. Enter a username and password. Navigate to the roor directory of your library. Choose remember for this path. Select ok

There are other ways depending on if your source is NFS enabled. Mine isnt

Thanks. I’ll give it a shot and report back. I’ll also search for the tutorial. Lots of great information - so much that it’s getting harder to find stuff!

 

[BuhBuhRay]

My NUC is somewhere in Montreal right now so I should receive it here in Quebec city in the beginning of next week. Can't wait to receive it....

Could somebody confirm if there is only 1 NVMe PCI-e socket in the NUC ? I'll probably go to the local Best Buy to get a 2 TB SSD (WD Blue SN580 is around $165 CAD right now) so that I can have more storage, since I'm beginning to be short on free space on the 2 USB external drives that are connected on my current Odroid N2 with CoreElec. If by chance there is a 2nd one, I would not have to clone the SSD included in the NUC and would just add the new 2 TB one for more free space..

 

[mrcond]

First off. There are no settings in the NUC. Both wired and wifi are enabled and there is no setting to turn them on or off.

Be sure your network is set as discoverable.

You have to be connected to the internet to get lyrics.

Im pretty sure @HomerJAU already provided a tutorial for this. In any event, heres how i do it with a wired connection.
Go to settings/media/library/music/add music/browse/zeroconf browser

At this point your library should show up in a list. Choose it. Enter a username and password. Navigate to the roor directory of your library. Choose remember for this path. Select ok

There are other ways depending on if your source is NFS enabled. Mine isnt

Tried all this and still no luck. It's puzzling because every other device in my network can see my media library. I confirmed the NUC is connected to my wifi network, that's not the issue. I'm giving up on going wireless on this. I will buy another external USB hard drive, copy everything over that, and connect that directly into my NUC (and then add new media files manually as I add them to my library). I do appreciate all the assistance.

 

[mrcond]

Try this. Start playing a piece of music, something pretty well known. Press ok on the remote to bring up the player controls at the top of the screen. Go to the 4th icon from the right. It looks like a sheet of text with a music note on it. Instant lyrics. To get out of that, hit the back button on the remote. Its one of my favorite kodi things.

Ok, I got the lyrics thing to work. Totally unexpected how the lyrics pop onto the screen. Very cool! Thanks for the tip.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

My NUC is somewhere in Montreal right now so I should receive it here in Quebec city in the beginning of next week. Can't wait to receive it....

Could somebody confirm if there is only 1 NVMe PCI-e socket in the NUC ? I'll probably go to the local Best Buy to get a 2 TB SSD (WD Blue SN580 is around $165 CAD right now) so that I can have more storage, since I'm beginning to be short on free space on the 2 USB external drives that are connected on my current Odroid N2 with CoreElec. If by chance there is a 2nd one, I would not have to clone the SSD included in the NUC and would just add the new 2 TB one for more free space..

There is only 1.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Tried all this and still no luck. It's puzzling because every other device in my network can see my media library. I confirmed the NUC is connected to my wifi network, that's not the issue. I'm giving up on going wireless on this. I will buy another external USB hard drive, copy everything over that, and connect that directly into my NUC (and then add new media files manually as I add them to my library). I do appreciate all the assistance.

so the issue is still the connection to the library right? If you are getting lyrics you must be on the wireless network and connected to the internet. You would have had to enter a username and password to do that. The library you are trying to connect to is on what? Is it an external drive connected to something else on the network?