MinimStreamer 0.5 is now available

[nickc]

(15-12-2014 00:53)simoncn Wrote:  MinimStreamer 0.5 has been released. For details of the changes, see the Release notes page.

First I want to congratulate you on such superb software. I'm a newish user and it's been a delight to return to MinimServer after several weeks away from home. I've now had a chance to install MinimStreamer on my old QNAP TS-109 and am bowled over by the design and ease of implementation, allowing the process to be initiated and managed through MinimWatch running on my Ubuntu pc; it couldn't have been simpler. I shall certainly be donating in the near future.

A couple of things have not been quite what I expected, though, and I'm curious as to why.
First, I was surprised to be offered only version 0.4.[8.3?] of MinimStreamer when I went to install it yesterday. I figured this may be due to limitations in the QNAP, but checking through your intallation guides I realised I needed to update the JRE_ARM qpkg to v 8.0.1, having done which I was able to update MinimServer to the latest version. Great! I expected then to find MinimStreamer 0.5 perhaps listed as available, but to my suprise when I checked in the Packages tab I saw that it is already installed and running without further action on my part. I notice that in the System tab of the properties pane .auto-update is set to "true", so does this govern the behaviour of both MinimServer and MinimStreamer? Ie, providing the host system is running the requisite java etc, both programmes will update as and when new versions become available?

The other thing that puzzles me is that having set up a playlist for internet radio stations, following your guide and the relevant follow-up discussion on this forum, only one of the two versions of named stations will play. Fortunately it's the first one, that utilises MinimStreamer, but I'm puzzled as to why the one that should play direct from MinimServer doesn't seem to work. (Using BubbleUPnP on Android as a controller and Volumio on RaspberryPi B+ / Hifiberry+ as renderer.)