Wiim app, Minim Server and recently added

[simbun]

(07-03-2026 22:39)simoncn Wrote:  The UPnP protocol allows the server to return a single artist (could be a combination of artist names) or multiple individual artists for a track or an album. MinimServer supports both of these. Could you describe this limitation in more detail?

That's interesting. Does the control point have to request that artists be delivered individually as I've never seen MinimServer send it like that? Assuming the WiiM app could support that approach it would certainly go some way to making "Advanced" mode more useful.

WiiM currently provide the following indexes based off the metadata scraped from MinimServer: Albums, Album Artists, Artists, Tracks, Playlists and Genres.
Given that artists and genres are delivered as a concatenated string, only Albums, Tracks and Playlists are unaffected. The Artists index would look something like:

Code:

Artist1
Artist1, Artist2
Artist1, Artist3, Artist4
Artist1, Artist4, Artist5
Artist3
...

The other problem with relying on the metadata provided by the UPnP browse action is that it's all text based, so you're grouping albums/tracks based on the artist's name leading to:

• Combining artists with the same name
• Splitting an artist's discography if they've ever changed or been credited under differerent names.
  

With respect to the implementation in the WHA, the use of Group (results in duplicate albums) or DiscSubtitle (tracks are sorted by originalTrackNumber) also cause issues - though they're not properly handled even in "Legacy" mode (object.item.audioItem.musicTrack are displayed after other objects).