Displaying pictures of artists?

[BassTreble]

I'm wondering if this is in development or was dropped as an idea. I've read this thread and also the thread Simon linked to on the Linn site (I think) and just wanted to add my humble vote for images. Personally, I'm not so fussed about artist images but would like to see a more graphically rich library tree and search results. As previous discussions have yielded division between users perhaps this could be an option users could enable or disable.

I think the overall experience would be infinitely more pleasing (particularly as some of us encourage our partners and family members to use our UPnP AV servers instead of Google Music or Spotify) if MinimServer could display the music library with random album art taken from music within the Albums, Items, Artists, Genres containers etc like most of todays music streaming apps do. I have installed BubbleUPnP on my wife's phone and she is happy to use it but finds navigating tedious because "why can't it have pictures like Google Music" and I agree.

And when I perform a search, I think it would be much more effective to see a category for Albums with a series of 3 or 4 album covers returned in the search with a "More" option which then opened up all album art returned if there are several more. Beneath that would similarly be album art for the returned Tracks, and returned Artists etc with Track Titles and Track Artists simply being a list beneath.

I've tested several UPnP AV servers and, for me, MinimServer is by far the best for my needs. Seriously; by far. While most of us here are quite technical and are happy to install, test and uninstall UPnP AV servers, DLNA servers, numerous control points etc and can live with boring folder trees, it would be nice if we could extend the power of our efforts to our partners and families so they can *seamlessly and effortlessly* enjoy our fruits as well thus making our music/video collections a much more social affair. The only thing, in my mind, preventing this is the lack of "pretty" imagery and "finish" in the UX.

IMHO.