Minim wishlist

[Oliviander]

(24-06-2013 23:26)simoncn Wrote:  

(24-06-2013 22:55)Alekz Wrote:  It should not be a complete album, even individual tracks will work gaplessly using this method, because it's the server that will see and "concatenate" separate tracks, not the renderer.

This is the part that I don't understand. If the server is presenting separate tracks to the control point, the renderer will send a separate GET request for each track and the server will return only the audio data for that track.

For example, if track 1 has duration 3 minutes and track 2 has duration 5 minutes, the renderer's request for track 1 will return 3 minutes of audio data, not 8 minutes.

Maybe Alekz means something as "creating an open home renderer"
on the server like bubble server does.
I read in other forums that the bubble solution doesn't provide gapless playing. But I assume it should be possible to create something like that with gapless playback.
It would be something like a serverside dynamic playlist that is controlled by a upnp controlpoint (instead of the renderer), while the renderer is forced to play exclusively and only this playlist.
The main advantage would be that you can shut down the CP
once the Playlist is filled.