About to build a new music server

[simbun]

Hi Darcentric,

MinimServer is "just" an audio server, it doesn't rip discs nor does it tag the music files, it just takes what you have, indexes it and makes it available to other components that implement the UPnP protocol.
Here's an overview of UPnP, and here's how MinimServer can help.

MinimServer has support for these audio formats, so it doesn't support MID files (although I guess they could be converted), and I'm not aware of a music server that does unfortunately.

MinimServer is very light on resources; I've run it on an rpi 3 for years serving over 1,300 albums and that's with it performing recoding in order to normalise volume.

If you're looking for a good ripper of Audio CDs then you can't go wrong with XLD for the mac, and for Windows EAC or CUERipper. If you want to use a single tool for ripping, tagging and converting then you'll probably want the dBpoweramp suite.