Selecting a set of tracks

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(07-10-2014 10:52)simoncn Wrote:  I'm sorry to hear this. Have you tried BubbleUPnP? I think it meets all your criteria, including selecting everything by a given artist without duplication. If you don't have an Android tablet already, I think it would be worth buying one to be able to run BubbleUPnP.

Thanks for the advice. However, I don't want to spend a few hundred quid on a tablet just to play music. More devices = more problems. I can use my "smartphone" with bubbleupnp, but the screen really isn't big enough for browsing.

I need my laptop since it allows me to create as well as consume, for instance allowing me to use puddletag to re-tag tracks the way I want to whilst listening, as well as for all sort of other activities. I much prefer to run linux, and anyway the Windows CPs seem little better (eg. I have no idea what the designers of Kinsky thought they were up to, but it's a mess).

I have a few hopes that the upplay developer might be able to get it done properly over time. If you have any advice on the use of the protocols, such as just requesting the container once, not multiple times for its contents, maybe you could pass the details to him/her?

One question I would ask is whether the 'n items' applies to all tags in the server at all levels? For instance, If I go to a Composer I see 'n items'. But if I go to 'Conductor', or 'Artist', let alone 'Work', beneath that, I don't see 'n items' in either foobar2000 or upplay.

If was able to develop myself I'd give it a go, but my skills are far too rusty, and were never in this field, let alone using the languages employed these days. Now if it was in assembler and I had to do everything myself rather than understand umpteen other different interfaces I might do better, but that's not the modern world of IT