Digital booklets

[classical11]

Hi,

I suspect this belongs to BubbleUpnp or other control points' forum but I thought I'd list it here first to see what people think.

One of the biggest gripes I have with digital music is lack of booklets and I find it difficult to switch away from CDs completely until I figure out a way to handle this. Although booklets might not be all that important for popular music (although I probably would still argue for them), they are very useful for classical music because they provide invaluable information about the recording itself - while it is possible to obtain info about the composer and work, it is difficult if not impossible to obtain information about the specific recording.

Fortunately this is slowly changing. Many classical labels now include booklets with digital purchases. They are not formatted properly but it's a good first step.

The question is though - how to easily access the booklet while listening to an album?

If I have to power up my computer, browse to the correct folder where the booklets are stored, open it up in Acrobat, then I might as well give up and stick to CDs. I need a far easier mechanism.

The way I'd like it to work would be for the control point to have a button/link on the Now Playing screen that would download the booklet from the server and open it up in an external pdf viewer.

I suspect this is outside the UPnP spec, but is it even achievable using a non-standard approach? For someone familiar with UPnP, is it posible for the control point to request say a document with a set name (e.g. booklet.pdf) from the same folder as the album? Or would an external http or ftp server have to be set up to achieve this?

Am I the only one who's unhappy with the lack of easy access to booklets?

Any ideas would be very appreciated.

Regards,
Ciprian