Wiim Home app - album art

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Hi @mikehd,

(12-04-2023 01:49)mikehd Wrote:  What is missing still, is album art at the Artist and Album level. Is this an issue with Wiim Home?

I don't know if you saw this post, but Brantome confirmed to me that the iOS WiiM app does display album art whilst the Android version doesn't, so yes it's another WiiM bug/problem.

(12-04-2023 01:49)mikehd Wrote:  Album art shows at those levels just fine with BubbleUpnP, but it has issues with multiple users, and complicates things a bit.

Are you still having problems losing the OpenHome proxy?


If you're using the licensed version of MinimServer (or the trial, but you will lose these customisations when the trial ends) and are using the WiiM app, you'll want to include the following in your configuration:

Code:

aliasTags: DiscSubtitle:nil

They added a "fix" to the latest app that not only broke track ordering (which they'd actually fixed in the previous release) but also now causes the WiiM app to crash if it encounters Disc Subtitles. This configuration option removes any disc subtitles that you do have (only within MinimServer) so it won't cause a problem.

Code:

tagFormat: title.displayFormat={$tracknumber^^ - ^$title}

The WiiM app doesn't display track number so this simply adds the track number to the display version of the title tag.

Code:

upnpCustom: roleTags={}

Whilst WiiM did add artist information to the track listing in the last release, they didn't do it properly, they probably just read in the first '<upnp:artist>' xml tag which for most servers will be AlbumArtist. The above configuration option simply prevents the AlbumArtist tag being sent with the track information so they have no choice but to display the track artist.


If however you want to keep using BubbleUPnP with MinimServer and there's the possibility of having a period in the last 3 characters of your filenames (excluding the file extension) then you'll want to proxy MinimServer with BubbleUPnP because of this bug.


I think I've mentioned all of these points in the WiiM forums but I thought I'd bring them together just in case you missed them.

Using the WiiM really is like walking a tightrope!