Minimserver, upmpdcli and MPD. Album booklet?

[nbpf]

(08-02-2016 12:22)simoncn Wrote:  

(08-02-2016 11:40)nbpf Wrote:  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?

MinimServer doesn't serve folder.jpg files to the control point. It uses these files to provide default artwork for audio files in the same folder that don't contain embedded artwork. The artwork for the file (either embedded or from a folder.jpg file) is sent to the control point usng the standard UPnP protocol for sending artwork metadata.

There is no standard UPnP protocol for sending booklet metadata and I don't have any plans at present to attempt to invent a nonstandard protocol for doing this.

I understand Simon, thanks for the feedback! It is a pity that UPnP does not support liner notes metadata. Especially for classical music, booklets are usually so much more interesting than cover art or lyrics... I am going to implement another ad-hoc solution: upmpdcli can be configured to run a script every time a play action is performed. With this feature, it should not be very difficult to create a symlink to the proper .pdf file and serve the booklet via http. Best, Nicola