Digital booklets

[simoncn]

(14-04-2013 22:12)bubbleguuum Wrote:  Another possibility is to use <res> tags. This is already used by several media servers to transmit subtitle URLs for video items (there's no standard for subtitles either, so there's at least 3-4 methods that I know of, for media servers to send them).

For example it could be:

<res protocolInfo="http-get:*:application/x-pdf:*">some url here</res>

There can be as many such res tags as pdf booklets. They would have to be placed after all audio <res> tags. The mime-type (application/x-pdf) indicates a booklet.

In fact this would be my preferred solution. I don't like the idea of using lyricsURI much as it can be genuinely be used by a server to send lyrics.

Unfortunately, some control points can't handle this. MinimServer 0.70 is sending an additional <res> tag for the album art file in some cases, and eLyric fails to play these tracks because it thinks the album art is the audio file (even though I have used the correct protocolInfo settings). Because of this, I am removing this additional <res> tag in MinimServer 0.71.

I agree that using <upnp:lyricsURI> is a bad idea because it prevents the intended use of this tag.

What do you think about using <dc:relation>?