Booklets

[Andre Gosselin]

(20-12-2016 05:11)Mike48 Wrote:  I'd like to add my thanks, also, for the booklet feature. This is really the icing on the cake!

With that, a request: would it be possible to have MinimServer recognize any filename with the word "booklet" in it and ending in ".pdf" as a valid booklet? I have several hundred albums dowloaded from eClassical, and their booklets have names like this: BIS-1858-SA_booklet.pdf-97f195.pdf
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The possibility of accessing digital booklets through minimserver/BubbleUPnP is indeed a great addition! Thanks for that Simon.

I would support the suggestion made in the previous post of extending the recognition of the pdf file to any name matching a simple pattern inside its name, eg ending with "booklet.pdf". Here are some of my reasons.

I use to name my booklet files so as to match the album name stored in the tracks Album tags. Since my music manager (MediaMonkey) runs on Windows, some characters used in the album tags are disallowed inside Windows filenames, so some transcoding is needed when naming the associated pdf file. For example, it is quite frequent to see albums named
as follows :"Beethoven: Symphony No.3 & 6" inside major catalog listings (DG is a case). Because Windows disallows the use of colons inside filenames, the booklet pdf file cannot be named "Beethoven: Symphony No.3 & 6.pdf". The name must be changed slightly, for ex. recoding the ":" to a "-" to produce "Beethoven- Symphony No.3 & 6.pdf". Unfortunately, this results in minimserver not recognizing this pdf filename as matching the album name.

Apart from retagging my library so as to match the actual names of my album booklets (not a good idea to introduce Windows limitations in a data model ...), the only choice I see is to rename all the booklets to "booklet.pdf" inside their respective folders. This works, except that I will end up with thousands of similarly named anonymous "booklet.pdf" files spread over the file hierarchy. This can be error prone if a "booklet.pdf" file is misplaced by error following an operation on the file system.

It would be nice if the booklet file names could be made more meaningful by including some contextual information in addition to the word "booklet", in such a way that the pattern used would be easy for minimserver to match. For the example used above, the pdf file could be named "Beethoven- Symphonies No. 3 & 6 (booklet).pdf", and matched by minimserver by the (mandatory) "(booklet)" trailing part.

This is just a suggestion. Thanks again for this nice addition (which I think unique among current music servers).

Regards