Help minidlna not updating library

Question

hey everyone, arch newbie here, having trouble making my dlna work. i can see and access it from my windows boxes but no media shows up.
ps i tried changing user to my username but it wouldnt even show up at that point so i commented it out.
this is my minidlna.conf
# port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic
port=8200
# network interfaces to serve, comma delimited
#network_interface=eth0
# specify the user account name or uid to run as
# user=fury
# set this to the directory you want scanned.
# * if you want multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines
# * if you want to restrict a media_dir to specific content types, you
# can prepend the types, followed by a comma, to the directory:
# + "A" for audio (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)
# + "V" for video (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)
# + "P" for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)
# + "PV" for pictures and video (eg. media_dir=AV,/home/jmaggard/digital_camera)
media_dir=V,/home/fury/Public/Movies
# set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients
friendly_name=DLNA Server
# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its database and album art cache
#db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna
# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its log file
#log_dir=/var/log
# set this to change the verbosity of the information that is logged
# each section can use a different level: off, fatal, error, warn, info, or debug
#log_level=general,artwork,database,inotify,scanner,metadata,http,ssdp,tivo=warn
# this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art
# note: names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/")
album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg
# set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files
# note: the default is yes
inotify=yes
# set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO
enable_tivo=no
# set this to strictly adhere to DLNA standards.
# * This will allow server-side downscaling of very large JPEG images,
# which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at least) Sony DLNA products.
strict_dlna=no
# default presentation url is http address on port 80
#presentation_url=http://www.mylan/index.php
# notify interval in seconds. default is 895 seconds.
notify_interval=895
# serial and model number the daemon will report to clients
# in its XML description
serial=12345678
model_number=1
# specify the path to the MiniSSDPd socket
#minissdpdsocket=/var/run/minissdpd.sock
# use different container as root of the tree
# possible values:
# + "." - use standard container (this is the default)
# + "B" - "Browse Directory"
# + "M" - "Music"
# + "V" - "Video"
# + "P" - "Pictures"
# if you specify "B" and client device is audio-only then "Music/Folders" will be used as root
#root_container=.
# always force SortCriteria to this value, regardless of the SortCriteria passed by the client
#force_sort_criteria=+upnp:class,+upnp:originalTrackNumber,+dc:title
# maximum number of simultaneous connections
# note: many clients open several simultaneous connections while streaming
#max_connections=50
Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

How do you run minidlna? Telling a daemon to run as a certain user is only useful if you start it as root. If you start minidlna as (unprivileged) user fury, it can't run as a different user so you don't need that feature.
You have the db_dir setting commented. /var/cache/minidlna seems to be the default, but does the user you're currently using to run minidlna have write access to this directory? For user fury, you could instead use /home/fury/.cache/minidlna (make sure the directory exists before starting the server).