Troubleshooting missing Playlists, Folders or Radio Stations tabs when browsing content on a UPnP/DLNA Media Server

[Hi-Fi Cast Developer]

Do you have a media server that you know has Playlists or Folder View or Radio Stations but you can't see them in Hi-Fi Cast?

If yes then there's any easy fix.

But some background information first.

UPnP/DLNA servers will present your media as a hierarchy of containers. At the top level, many will list only Music, Images and Video and so the

browse tree might look something like this:

-Media Server

    |-- Music

    |     |-- Albums

    |     |-- Artists

    |     |-- Genres

    |     |-- Playlists

    |     |-- Folders

    |     |-- Radio Stations

    |

    |-- Images

    |-- Video

Hi-Fi Cast will attempt to place you in the Music section of the browse tree so that you don't even see Images and Video. In the example above, the tabs you see in the Hi-Fi Cast media browser will be Albums, Artists, Genres, Playlists, Folders and Radio Stations (and Local Playlists, which Hi-Fi Cast adds itself).

The problem arises when the server presents a browse tree where Playlists, Folders and/or Radio Stations are at the top level - like this:

-Media Server

    |-- Music

    |     |-- Albums

    |     |-- Artists

    |     |-- Genres

    |

    |-- Playlists

    |-- Folders

    |-- Radio Stations

    |-- Images

    |-- Video

If your server does this, then you won't see Playlists, Folders or Radio stations because Hi-Fi Cast is only showing the content under Music.

As mentioned above, there is an easy fix. Just do this:

• On the 'Select Media Server' screen, tap the settings icon for your media server

• Tap 'Top Level Music Folder'

• Tap 'Media Server' and then OK

• Tap the back arrow to return to the music library 
  

Media servers which are known to be affected include foobar (for Playlists) and some Fritz!Box models (for Radio Stations).

[Alfonso Arg]

I tried many times the solution and still missing most of the folders.