The control app thread

[MarmiteSandwich]

(05-05-2021 09:03)simbun Wrote:  Might be a decent option for the odd occasion I want to control it from a PC.

It's also available for Linux/Unix/MacOS, from the same developer who created upmpdcli as a upnp interface to mpd in Linux.

(05-05-2021 09:03)simbun Wrote:  I haven't had a chance to play with it, but what does it do over what BubbleUPnP can? I'm guessing because you can have one tab per renderer you'll be able to move individual tracks between queues?

It doesn't compare with Bubble, which has features galore and can also be a server and renderer. Upplay is quite simple and just a control point. It has a simple interface where you can add/delete and move items up and down the queue. One tab per library, but only one renderer queue at a time. You can switch to another renderer, but AFAIK you can't switch the queue from one renderer to another, like you can with Bubble. You can save/retrieve the current playlist, which would have the same effect, I guess. Supports searches and displays metadata for current track.

(05-05-2021 09:03)simbun Wrote:  Using the alphaGroup configuration option in MinimServer will allow you to mimic this. It's intelligent enough to only group items where the resulting index size is greater than a configurable amount e.g 'albums=200' only group albums by first letter if there are more than 200 in my subset.

I will check this out, but I guess it involves another step in the browse hierarchy, which is already a slight problem with MinimServer, which involves more selections than I would like. Upplay has some directory sorting options including 1 MinimServer special. Never tried these.

Marmite