Can Minimserver Resize Album Art?

[simoncn]

I have looked at what the Synology media server does. It doesn't adjust the size of the image based on the User-Agent header. Instead, it looks at the IP address of the machine requesting the image and uses a list of UPnP device profiles to rescale the image based on the profile for that IP address.

This approach doesn't work correctly if the machine requesting the image isn't a dedicated renderer machine. In this case, all requests from this machine (whether or not they come from the renderer software) are processed according to the profile settings for the device's IP address. I tried this on my Windows PC and the default setting is downscale the image to 160x160 (even without "transmit low resolution images" enabled).

If the device requesting the image is running control point software that is managing other renderers with different image size requirements, the Synology scheme doesn't allow for this and this probably explain the posts I have seen about images from the Synology media server being fuzzy.

The profile settings don't seem to be documented anywhere and I don't think it is possible for the user to customize them.

I think this approach has too many problems for it to be implemented by MinimServer.