The '<n> albums' sort order (again)

[DavidHB]

This is the post I promised two posts back. I wrote it, then managed to close the browser before I posted it ...

Yesterday's return ferry trip and longish drive to the dealer resulted in an order for an Akurate DSM. That is relevant in the present context because I got to try Kinsky on my Nexus 10, and learned enough to take the view that I shall probably get on with it quite well. At the dealer's, Kinsky was paired with Asset UPnP, which didn't seem as responsive as MinimServer (the back end hardware was not visible, so I don't know how the storage was managed; it might have been a ripping NAS, in which case Asset, which only runs on Windows, would have been on a different machine).

(09-09-2013 23:47)simoncn Wrote:  I think the MinimServer User guide is long enough already without including instructions on how to use other programs such as Mp3tag. There is nothing to stop others from producing this tutorial information and making it available.

Fair enough. Perhaps we users should do more to write up 'tips and tricks' for others. Topics of particular use to new users could perhaps be made 'sticky' at the top of the forum list; new material could be added to these 'stickies' from time to time to form a user compendium. I'm happy to contribute what I've learned so far, but it would be useful to have some guidance on what you consider best practice. My own feeling is that users often find quite detailed step by step guidance to be the best way of getting into something new.

Quote:You need to add AlbumArtist to either itemTags or indexTags. Without this, MinimServer will not read it from your files.

Sorry, I didn't get the correction to my post done in time ...

Quote:When I start UPnPlay from scratch and select MinimServer, I get the normal top-level MinimServer menu. Perhaps something has changed in the version of UPnPlay you are using. The version I currently have installed is 0.0.75.

My version of UPnPlay (on the Nexus 10) has just updated itself to 0.0.82, and now, when it is opened, it just goes back to whatever it was doing when it was closed. This is what Android apps typically do, and I can't find a way of changing the behaviour, not that I actually want to.


With the purchase of the DSM, I have committed myself to using MinimServer for (hopefully) the foreseeable future. It therefore seems only fair to make a donation, and this I have done.

David