If the number of albums in the current branch of the tree is less than listViewAlbums then you’ll just get a list of albums, if it’s more then you’ll get additional categories to browse. What this option does is set a threshold for when MinimServer presents more browsing categories vs just a list of content. This can be tuned to your preference using listViewAlbums. you want to browse by alpha before selecting an artist). This is from the AlphaGroup option and as it’s not a default I’m assuming that this is the desired behavior (i.e. I guess that a more universal method would be for the Mosaic software to simply count the number of items ( tracks) in a folder and allocate numbers in sequence. It would seem to my simplistic judgement that the easiest solution would appear to be for either MinimServer and/or Mosaic to access and display the ID3 track number field as this would cover most ripped and downloaded repertoire at least for FLACs. Perhaps the most important of these is “Composer” which is of particular significance to classical music enthusiasts like me but I have also found that the availability of “composer” would improve my experience for much of my jazz collection too.įor purchased and downloaded FLAC files the ID3 tagging data is usually completed by the record label and, again, track number is in its usual field. There are many completed fields available within ID3 tagging that are also not capable of being displayed by Mosaic irrespective of server software. There are other server and controller software which can also do UPnP but often UPnP needs to be specifically enabled.The track numbers are usually automatically generated by dbpoweramp( in my case) for ripped files and are stored as part of the usual ID3 tagging matrix for FLACs ( uncompressed in my case) and also appear as part of the track title for each file in the folder for the album. Both MinimServer and BubbleUPnP are dedicated UPnP packages.Unsurprisingly, the software developers talk to one another to resolve problems. MinimServer and BubbleUPnP are known to work well together.Together with SnakeOil OS library setup, made it easy to install and get running. Minimserver is available out-of-the-box in Activated version of SnakeOil OS. ![]() BubbleUPnP is a well rated and easy to use Android App. Note that MinimServer without convolution filtering, will run on low powered hardware. MinimServer is running on an Intel i5 8th Gen box which easily copes with the convolution filtering load. Creating good convolution filters is more challenging but is outside the scope of this Wiki. Not only did MinimServer's convolution filtering fulfill this requirement well, but it was also easy to set up. Originally the primary driver was finding a UPnP server which does room correction. The following are Snoopy8's motivations for using MinimServer and BubbleUPnP. Please see the Wiki in the Links section for other controller Apps. MinimServer is only available out of the box in the Activated (token donation required) version. Select and install MinimServer in SnakeOil.Simon, the developer is responsive and helpful. ![]() ![]() Questions and enhancement requests on MinimServer can be posted to the user forum. MinimServer (without convolution filtering) can run on low powered hardware. MinimServer supports multiple platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi and various NAS. Please refer to the MinimStreamer doc for more information. MinimStreamer allows for on-the-fly transcoding of music formats, play a network stream such as an internet radio station on a music player that doesn't have native support for playing the stream, record a network stream, including timed recording and convolution filtering (room correction). MinimServer has a number of advanced features incorporated into the MinimStreamer extension package. There are many playback devices which have UPnP. BubbleUPnP is an excellent Android controller which works well with MinimServer. It is particularly useful for a classical music collection.įor those unfamiliar with a Universal Plus and Play (UPnP) setup, it consists of a UPnP server (Source), controller (Control Point), and renderer (playback device). MinimServer is a high performance UPnP dedicated music server which has an intelligent browsing mechanism to select genres, composers and other fields to progressively narrow down the results across the library.
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