A couple of further enhancements?

[Pastim]

(26-10-2014 07:54)simoncn Wrote:  

(25-10-2014 21:01)Pastim Wrote:  Since this cannot possibly be implemented in a UPnP control point it will never be done.

Many UPnP control points support random play or shuffle mode. I'm not aware of any UPnP servers that do this.

If the issue is adding group awareness to a control point, this is much simpler than adding random play capability to a server.

Another option would be for the server to send the control point a resource URL for playing the entire group. The UPnP specification supports this. This would allow the control point to support random playing of groups without special awareness of MinimServer's grouping capability.

Given that so few people seem to care about such groups it'll probably never happen.

I asked here because you seem to be one of the few people in the music software business who understands that some people need systems to know about more than just tracks (or 'songs'). As a user, rather than software developer, I'm not too bothered about where a facility is provided, but I had rather hoped that if done in a server it would work with all Control Points.

Thanks for your views anyway. Back to LMS and my home-brewed SQL for this I guess. I'll have to work some more on getting LMS to talk UPnP