Question about the licence model and browsing through music

[simoncn]

Thanks very much for this suggestion.

I think it would be good to do something along these lines as there are people who take the trial and don't see any changes in what MinimServer is doing with the trial enabled. They don't know where to look in the documentation to find out what configuration options are available and in some cases they don't know how to access the configuration user interface to add configuration options.

Some of these problems could be solved by creating a 'trial' profile that is selected automatically when a user activates the trial. This would enable some key features of the full version, such as index artwork, recently added and recently played. Some generally useful index entries such as Audio Format and Audio Data could also be added.

Going beyond this to add a selection of profiles is more difficult because the choice of other options will depend on how the user has tagged their files and how they want to browse their library. Trying to anticipate what different users might want is difficult and I have always felt that MinimServer should not provide "recommended" configuration options, tagging schemes or library structure but allow the user to make their own choices with advice and guidance from the forum, as you have done.

I would be interested to know how you are setting configuration options. What platform do you use to run MinimServer? Do you set options by using the Properties dialog from MinimServer or MinimWatch or do you directly edit the .profile file?