I am going to implement another ad-hoc solution: upmpdcli can be configured to run a script every time a play action is performed. Especially for classical music, booklets are usually so much more interesting than cover art or lyrics. I understand Simon, thanks for the feedback! It is a pity that UPnP does not support liner notes metadata. There is no standard UPnP protocol for sending booklet metadata and I don't have any plans at present to attempt to invent a nonstandard protocol for doing this.
The artwork for the file (either embedded or from a folder.jpg file) is sent to the control point usng the standard UPnP protocol for sending artwork metadata. It uses these files to provide default artwork for audio files in the same folder that don't contain embedded artwork. MinimServer doesn't serve folder.jpg files to the control point. Here, a clean solution would probably require Minimserver to serve local "booklet.pdf" files in much the same way as it serves, if I am not misunderstood, local "folder.jpg" files. With Minimserver's intelligent browsing it is now a pleasure to search and browse through the collection. PS I am almost done with adding "work", "period" and "conductor" tags to my classical music collection. Is this something that would make sense from your perspective? Is it possibly already supported?
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However, on Android or, even worse, iOS, one cannot rely on bash, mpc, etc. This is a very simple and effective solution, if you are interested I can post the code. On a Linux system and in the context of a Minimserver, upmpdcli and MPD based solution, I can easily w-get and open a "booklet.pdf" file stored in the same directory of the currently playing item with a short bash script based on mpc, w-get, etc. It is probably the best control point for my setup, but it does not seem to support displaying an album booklet. If you find a solution for this, please post it here. I believe BubbleUPnP on Android supports this but I haven't tried it myself. Perhaps other forum users might be able to suggest something. I don't know of any UPnP control point for iOS that can display an album booklet.
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PS By the way, mconnect also does not apper to support gapless replay: it sends single files to the renderer instead of full playlists! Is there a control point for iOS compatible with Minimserver that supports opening the booklet of an album? I have checked Linn Kinsky and mconnect and both do not appear to support this functionality. On a Debian laptop, I can run a simple script to fetch the booklet of the currently playing item. There is one open issue: when directly controlling MPD via MPaD (iOS), I can open the booklet of the currently playing album on an iPad (MPad relies on an HTTP server for displaying cover art and booklets, I have an HTTP server running on the same machine that runs Minimserver, MPD and upmpdcli). Thanks to all developers of these great products! With Minimserver, upmpdcli and MPD, I have now managed to set up an ideal music server. I have used MPD (mainly in conjunction with ncmpcpp and MPaD as clients) for about three years and I am very happy with its stability and sound quality.īut its hard-wired, non-customizable system of tags is almost unusable for classical music.
My main motivation for using Minimserver is its ability to support browsing classical music collections.
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