Minimserver, upmpdcli and MPD. Album booklet?

[nbpf]

(10-01-2016 18:24)simoncn Wrote:  

(10-01-2016 17:57)nbpf Wrote:  I am completely new to Minimserver. My main motivation for using Minimserver is its ability to support browsing classical music collections. 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.

But its hard-wired, non-customizable system of tags is almost unusable for classical music. With Minimserver, upmpdcli and MPD, I have now managed to set up an ideal music server. Thanks to all developers of these great products!

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). On a Debian laptop, I can run a simple script to fetch the booklet of the currently playing item.

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.

Thanks, nbpf

PS By the way, mconnect also does not apper to support gapless replay: it sends single files to the renderer instead of full playlists!

Welcome to the MinimServer forum!

I don't know of any UPnP control point for iOS that can display an album booklet. Perhaps other forum users might be able to suggest something.

I believe BubbleUPnP on Android supports this but I haven't tried it myself.

If you find a solution for this, please post it here.

I have installed and tested BubbleUPnP. It is probably the best control point for my setup, but it does not seem to support displaying an album booklet. I might be missing something, of course.

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. This is a very simple and effective solution, if you are interested I can post the code.

However, on Android or, even worse, iOS, one cannot rely on bash, mpc, etc. 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.

Is this something that would make sense from your perspective? Is it possibly already supported?

Best,
nbpf

PS I am almost done with adding "work", "period" and "conductor" tags to my classical music collection. With Minimserver's intelligent browsing it is now a pleasure to search and browse through the collection. Thanks!