Digital booklets

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(14-04-2013 17:49)simoncn Wrote:  

(14-04-2013 17:24)magister Wrote:  I'm not a programmer and know nothing about the inner workings of the UPnP spec, so there may be possibilities that I am ignorant of. That said, the only thing I can think of this is:

Establish a convention that there will be one PDF file per folder/album, for the booklet. In the rare situation where a user wants to store other PDFs in the same folder, the filename must begin with an arbitrary character such as an underscore (I think underscores are legal in all OS's) or a series of characters such as 'ex_' (for 'extra PDF'). Any PDF files that begin with the special character(s) would be ignored when the server looks for a booklet.

The situation I described with my files from eClassical is not common, so asking users in such situations to rename the non-cover file seems reasonable and won't bother most people.

David

Thanks for this suggestion. It would work if all files for an album are in the same folder (which need not be the case) and if the user follows the convention of having only one .pdf file in this folder that isn't prefixed by an underscore.

I'll give some thought to how these other situations could be handled. Any other comments or suggestions from anyone are welcome.

For albums split into multiple directories, I can think of 2 situations:
- the album spans multiple CDs but it has the same title and is merged by Minim
- the album is part of a box set for which there is only a single large booklet

For both of these cases I store the booklet in the parent folder. Minim could first look in the current folder (where the music files are) for the booklet (that matches the agreed naming convention). If it doesn't find it, it could try to find it in the parent folder.