Question about the licence model and browsing through music

[Music-Guy]

Hi Minim-Users,

I'm coming from Twonky, but I have big problems with the licensing there, because due to the change of licensing via a Lynx account a permanent online connection is mandatory.
As soon as the internet connection is disconnected (even when the Lynx server is offline), access to the audio files via UPnP is no longer possible.

Since I cannot provide a permanent internet connection for my requirements, I cannot continue to use Twonky as a UPnP server.

After my research, MinimServer seems to fit my requirements. Therefore, I would like to purchase a licence here.

Unfortunately, so far I have not been able to find any information on exactly how licensing is done here.
With MinimServer, is permanent offline operation possible with a valid licence, even without an Internet connection?


Is it also possible with MinimServer:

• to exclude individual subfolders from the media scan?
• to declare directories such as "Soundtracks" or "Compilations" as "collective folders" so that individual artists of an album contained therein do not appear in the general list of album artists?
  

And another question:

I've all my music in the folder structure "Artist\Album"\("CD#")
Between them I have some collection folders like "Compilations\NameOfCompilationAlbum", "Soundtracks\NameOfSoundtrackAlbum".

The folder structure ist as following:
./music
./music/artist_a/album_1
./music/artist_b/album_2
./music/compilations/compilation_a
./music/soundtracks/soundtrack_a
./music/audiobooks/audiobook_a
./music/various_artists
./podcasts

The audiobooks and podcasts are just regular audio files with genre-tag "audiobook" or "podcast".
On all audio files the following tags are used:
ALBUM, ARTIST, DISCNUMBER, GENRE, TITLE, TRACK, YEAR.
Additionaly compilations, soundtracks, and the files in the various_artists folder has the tag COMPILATION=1.

Now I want to browse via UPnP through my music with Browse Tree "Artist\Album".
But under "Artists" all artists are listed that are also included in the collection folders.
This makes the view very confusing.

How can I exclude the artists from the collection folders from this view?

The same problem is at audiobooks and podcasts. Their Artists are listed aswell and I'd like to exclude them from that view.

What I basicaly want is a navigation structure similar to what I know from twonky:

• Genre/Artist/Album
• Audiobooks
• Artist/Album
• Artist Index
• By Date
• By Folder
• Playlists
  

How can I achieve this?