Windows Media Player parsing UPnP tree

[simoncn]

(21-05-2013 19:47)gillecaluim Wrote:  After installing minimserver on centos and pointing minimserver to a large audio library containing flac encoded audio files the WMP see's the collection but when it tries to scan the library it apparently doesn't properly traverse the file tree and never ends adding songs.....it ran for over 8 hours and told me i had over 3000 hours of songs and counting

Is this a problem with windows reading the flac file tags ( i installed the xiph.org codecs) or a problem with the interaction between minimserver upnp protocol and wmp?

It's a design issue with WMP. See note 5 of this section.

The problem is that WMP assumes the library is a strict hierarchy where every song appears exactly once. With MinimServer, the library is a directed graph in which a song can appear multiple times because it's available via multiple navigation paths (such as Genre->Artist->Composer, Artist->Composer, Composer->Artist, etc., etc.) WMP treats all these paths to the same song as if they were different songs, attempts to preload all these different "songs" from the server, and runs out of resources.