Digital booklets

[simoncn]

(14-04-2013 06:35)classical11 Wrote:  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?

There is no exact match for this in the UPnP specification. However, the <upnp:lyricsURI> tag comes fairly close, as many of these booklets contain words of vocal music.

The server would need to insert this tag based on a convention such as the one you have suggested (booklet.pdf from the same folder as the album), and the control point would need to read this tag and present the booklet contents to the user.

It wouldn't be practical for the control point to access the booklet file without cooperation from the server. MinimServer doesn't provide external HTTP access to arbitrary files on the server (for obvious security reasons), so it would necessary to run an additional HTTP server as you suggested. The control point would need some way of discovering this HTTP server and understanding/navigating its folder tree, which might not be the same as the navigation tree presented by the media server.

I suggest you raise this with the author of your favourite control point. If they are interested in supporting this, I'd be pleased to have a discussion with them about the right way for MinimServer to send the necessary URI information.