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The Clock of the Noxon

As pround owner of a Terratec Noxon 2 I eventually try to use all the features Terratec offers. I’m impressed what this little thing can do for me and (in combination of a TwonkyMedia server) it replaces all HiFi stuff in my living room. It plays digital music (mainly MP3, but als OGG and AAC) OTA from my UPnP AV server and the USB stick plugged into its side. Shoutcast streams are stored in the favorites, which can be edited via web interface. Sound is great and connectivity just works. However there is one thing I do not manage: I never get the clock right. The Noxon has a big clock, which would definitely be a feature for my living room, but it is set automatically and is wrong all the time So Teratec: Where is the firmware update?

How to compile Mediatomb 0.9 for Windows / Cygwin

In my experience the build worked with minor difficulties: You need to download

• Cygwin
• Mediatomb source package
• SQLite

After installing Cygwin and getting the gcc to run (I won’t help you on this), you will need to unpack SQLite3:

tar xvf sqlite-<version>.tar.gz
cd sqlite-<version>
./configure –disable-tcl
make
make sqlite3.dll
make install

Then you can unpack, configure and make the Mediatomb server:

tar xvf mediatomb-0.9.0.tar.gz
cd mediatomb-0.9.0
./configure –enable-static
make
make install

Then you should be able to start your server with the command ‘mediatomb’ from the Cygwin bash shell. However I couldn’t start the server, there was a strange error code “ERROR: ‘..’ not allowed in path!”.

I’d appreciate feedback if someone manages tom compile it to a running version and also if someone could include spidermonkey, libid3 and libexif in the static build. If there is a way to package all binary files needed in one zip to run it on systems without Cygwin I’d provide an installer for Windows.

Mediatomb 0.9.0 Released

Kind of missed it, but as they have no blog there … . The team of Mediatomb released their UPnP server in version 0.9.0 on 28th of March. Mediatomb is an UPnP AV server, which allows you to publish your multimedia files (audio, video & images) in a home multimedia network. Other nodes in the network may autodetect the server and play the files. Find binaries, documentation and the source of Mediatomb here. Unfortunately they only provide binaries for Fedora.