Announcing MinimServer 2

[Steve]

Hi Simon,

Bit late with my comments and replies:

I use both Minimserver and Minimstreamer - on a Synology NAS with a Yamaha Musiccast set-up.

Minimserver works very very well with the Musiccast App - in fact, much much better than the Synology Media Server software package - its much quicker and has allowed me to tweak the options to select from within the Musiccast app - I have Genre, Year, Decade in addition to Album and Artist (because, unfortunately Musiccast doesn't allow a simple search) - so I couldn't be without it.

I use Minimstreamer to transcode FLAC to wav - as some of my older Yamaha gear doesn't like FLAC and also to transcode/stream the BBC high definition radio stations - so again I couldn't do without this either.

I have donated to you, but would have no issue whatsoever in having to purchase/subscribe at the type of costs you have shown in this thread, once you had the Synology version up and running. It still represents exceptionally good value for money in my opinion.

I did (and still do) find the setting up of Minimserver a bit difficult to fathom - when I change things its sometimes takes a few goes and I've actually done most of my 'simple' tweaks by picking up from what others have done in the forum - so I would see you getting much more take up if you could build an interface thats a bit less 'techie' in its ways and working.

I look forward to seeing the Synology versions!!

Thanks,

Steve