Minstrel - asking for early testers

[imush]

Minstrel 1.0.3 with library search and better Android Auto is submitted for testing on Android and iOS. iOS should be available soon, maybe tomorrow and Android is still waiting for the previous review, so it will take a few days and still only for those signed up to closed testing.

The main change is search.

Search the whole library
Servers that support search now have a search button next to their name. It searches the whole server, not just the folder you're in, and shows matching artists, albums and tracks in separate sections. Some details:

- Several words narrow the results, and they can match different tags: "haydn symphony 94" finds the Surprise symphony.
- With MinimServer it also searches composers, so "berg" finds Alban Berg's works even when someone else is the performer.
- Accents are optional: "dvorak" finds Dvořák.
- Small misspellings still match, listed after the exact matches: "haidn" finds Haydn, and "griboedov" finds Griboyedov.
- Search runs when you press Search on the keyboard, not while you type. That keeps it light over a remote connection.

It uses the server's own search, so it's fast even on large libraries. On MinimServer most searches take well under a second here. Other servers should work as long as they support UPnP search, and Minstrel only searches the tags the server says it can search.

Android Auto
- Voice requests use the same search. "Hey Google, play Haydn symphony 94 on Minstrel" finds and plays it or offers you the choice of performers if the server has more than one.
- The car's search screen lists matching artists, then albums, then tracks.
- Fixed: the play and pause buttons on the car screen could stop responding after Minstrel had been in the background for a long time, while the phone's own buttons still worked. The same fault affected the lock screen and headphone buttons. The cause was in the audio library Minstrel uses. I've sent the fix to its maintainer as well.

iOS CarPlay doesn't have voice search yet. That's on the list, but it will need to deal with Siri, voice features are less straightforward in the Apple world.

As always, I'm glad to hear how it works with your setup, especially with servers other than MinimServer.