Any Chance of a MinimServer Control Point App?

[lyapounov]

(02-01-2023 20:25)simoncn Wrote:  My top choice would be BubbleUPnP. It works well with MinimServer, has just about every feature that a control point should have and supports both OpenHome and 'classic UPnP' renderers.

I have both Android and IOS tablet; so I tested everything.

I personally dislike BubbleUPnP; too much of an engineering interface, not user friendly at all.

I have been working with programmers my whole life; there is a rule: never ask them to design an interface. That was always the strength of Apple: have true designers doing the job, not programmers. The superb Steve Job's keynote where he introduces the iPhone is a masterpiece (avail on youtube).

When you compare the Apple design with smartphones at the time, as shown on the keynote, you realize he invented many things no engineer thought of: making the keyboard a picture instead of a physical keyboard, pinching photos to zoom in or our, swiping to go to the next photo, swiping to delete an entry, etc.... All this is familiar now, but he is the one who invented this in 2007 - with credit to Jony Ive, Apple's designer who did the job (a top British Industrial designer by training, not a programmer ;-).

I have tested many apps. No one surpasses Lumin. Lumin app is a typical designer's approach; as an example, zooms in or out the images when pinching and therefore changing the number of images per row - but not only: the switch between icon or list, the navigation is so easy, the different parts are so clean, etc.

And a last comment, Simon, hope you will take it positively: your tool is superb, and everywhere I go, I advocate for minimServer as being the best server you can imagine; much better than Roon Audirvana or any other servers (as an exemple, I had a thread recently about this on fb, with Alain Lompech who is a top French Music Journalist, and Yves Riesel who is the founder of Qobuz).

However, your admin interface is a typical programmer's interface... ;-) But I don't use it a lot, and as the backend part is really important, I still continue to advocate for minimServer.

Anyway, de gustibus et coloribus non es disputandem...