New to Minimserver - a few questions

[simoncn]

(04-05-2013 17:43)stampie Wrote:  Thanks Simon; here's a quick update on how I have got on:-
1. Album Art - I don't pretend to understand the details discussed since your response, so I can only describe the behaviour I see when using different Media Servers. With the Synology Media Server I can select a device specific profile of "Default with Original Cover" and I get the full album art with no lag at all (in displaying the art) when scrolling through album list in n-Stream. I think this is particular to how n-Stream is caching, because if I use PlugPlayer as my CP, there is a lag.

However, with Minimserver it doesn't look like the images are being cached in n-Stream at all, so I guess there must be something different in how the images are sent, received and processed by n-Stream (between the Synology and Minimserver).

Don't know if this helps anyone - happy to try out more servers/CP if that would help

Thanks for explaining this. I think you're right that there is a difference in how the images are sent, but unfortunately it's difficult for me to track down what this difference is because I don't have a Synology NAS and therefore can't try the Synology Media Server. What are the filetypes of your audio files?

Quote:4. all.sortValue.ignoreThe - I thought you might find the response from Naim interesting (thanks to Naim for quick response)

Naim stated that if I enabled 'UPNP compatibility mode' then 'The' would be ignored. However, this would result in the loss of some CP functionality (mainly queuing and playlist support within n-Stream), which is not acceptable to me.

I replied asking 'Why wouldn’t Naim want to provide this option outside of compatibility mode?', to which they replied 'We don’t implement the “Ignore A and The” option – that’s implemented by the UPnP server itself. There is no setting for this that can be passed over the UPnP protocol – it’s simply a function of the UPnP server and how it sorts it’s lists."

I find this response confusing to be honest - can anyone else make sense of it?

It is confusing, and it seems Naim have misunderstood your question. They seem to think you are asking for the control point to provide a custom sorting option. Can you explain to them you just want the control point to preserve any custom list sorting order that the server has already done?

Quote:5. Distinguishing singles - not tried this yet; I was wondering if I can exclude the Singles from the main Album list once I have done this? Any thoughts appreciated

If you remove the Album tag from your singles, they won't show up in the Album list.

Quote:Apols for the long post and thanks for everyone's help!

Nick

You're very welcome!