Amazon Echo/ Alexa

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(27-01-2017 20:17)Cebolla Wrote:  

(27-01-2017 18:42)Martin H Wrote:  I am not sure I am explaining this well here but is it still your opinion that this is not an area that Minimserver will extend? I must admit to finding voice control enticing but at the same time I would be very reluctant to move away from your server product. I am sure over coming year or so this will play itself out but interested in your view.

In well designed systems, semantics is usually the key to determine what component is required to perform a particular function. Voice control is obviously control point functionality and nothing to do with media file serving - it's in the name!

Best ask the designer of your favoured UPnP/DLNA controller app for his/her opinion on this matter.

As I said on the thread on the Linn forum, maybe voice control is a new paradigm and the structure of the media server is no longer important i.e. you'll directly ask for tracks by a particular artist, for example, rather than navigating a media server's 'virtual' folder hierarchy.