Minimserver, upmpdcli and MPD. Album booklet?

[nbpf]

(10-02-2016 17:06)krutsch Wrote:  

(10-02-2016 12:08)nbpf Wrote:  For your information:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost...ount=10531

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost...ount=10535

Best,
Nicola

+1 ... I am hoping that Simon changes his mind.

I very much hope that Simon and bubbleguuum will just collaborate, no one actually needs to adopt a different viewpoint.

Being able to open up the booklet of an album in a control point is an essential feature and I find it difficult to understand how people can be satisfied with solutions (Naim app, Linn Kazoo, Bubble UPnP, etc.) that do not support this functionality.

In fact, I find it difficult to understand how people can move away from CDs and printed booklets if the listening experience becomes then so incomplete. We should not trade quality for convenience, or, at least, not to this extent. I am currently trying to implement two workarounds:

1) use upmpdcli capability to run a script every time a play action is performed to update a symbolic link on an http server. This would allow one to access the booklet of the currently playing album by simply opening a constant URL. This could be saved as a bookmark and opened in the device running the control point application every time one wants to access the booklet. This solution would work no matter which control point is used.

2) use the URL of the currently playing item made available by MinimServer and displayed by Bubble UPnP to open a browser with an address pointing to the corresponding booklet. This would not need the user to run an http server and would not depend on upmpdcli to run the script.

Both workarounds have advantages and disadvantages and it is clear that both would be poor's man solutions. Also, I am not a good programmer and what is needed is a professional solution.

And I think that Simon and bubbleguuum are the best candidates for delivering such solution. I would be happy to pay an extra on both products if this would help improving the listening experience.