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.

Simon, I have played a little bit around with Bubble UPnP and it turns out that with Minimserver and Bubble UPnP, the problem of opening a reader with an album's booklet is almost (but not quite) solved:

As it turns out, tapping the cover art in the "Playing now" field of Bubble UPnP opens a list of metadata for the currently playing item. The list contains, among others, the item's URL One can tap the URL and open it in firefox or chrome. By manually replacing, for instance

http://192168178101:9790/minimserver/*/data/Alfred*20Brendel/Schubert*20Piano*20Sonatas*20D575,*20894,*20959*20*26*20960/01*20-*20Schubert*20-*20Piano*20Sonata*20No18*20in*20G,*20D894*20-*201*20Molto*20moderato*20e*20cantabile.flac

with

http://192168178101:9790/minimserver/*/data/Alfred*20Brendel/Schubert*20Piano*20Sonatas*20D575,*20894,*20959*20*26*20960/booklet.pdf

in the browser's navigation bar, one can open the booklet of the currently playing album, assuming that this is stored in the same directory under the name booklet.pdf.

This works fine and the only thing that is needed to access the booklet with a single fingertip is to automatize the above substitution. I have no idea how to do so under Android, but I'll think about that, please, see also https://github.com/medoc92/upmpdcli/issues/27

Best,
Nicola