Feature Request/Idea: Multiple Music Collections

[simoncn]

I presume what's really wanted is to see a choice of:

• father+common
• mother+common
• daughter+common
• son+common
• all
  

The next release of MinimServer will support multiple content directories, so it will be possible to compose different directory trees in this way when starting MinimServer.

What you're asking for is slightly different. You'd like to start a single instance of MinimServer with all these content directories combined (the "all" view), and then have a quick and easy way to switch between different predefined combinations of the top-level content directories.

What's not clear to me is whether there's a requirement for the father to be browsing his selection at the same time that the mother is browsing her selection, etc. If each family member has their own playback device, this would be necessary, and it would force the use of different MinimServer instances.

If there's only one playback device in the house, shared by all family members, then only one family member would be using the single MinimServer instance at a time. This type of usage could be supported by the concept of multiple user profiles. Selecting a user profile would subset the available content directories and could potentially change other properties (e.g., album sort order, index tags shown).

I'm open to the possibility of adding support for user profiles at some stage if there's significant demand for it. I've got quite a long list of other things to work on at the moment, so this probably wouldn't happen in the near future.