Nice work ! and a few questions

[simoncn]

(06-08-2012 18:50)R25097 Wrote:  Thanks for your detailed reply.

• About separating music genres :
I followed your advice and indeed, I created a genre list as top level,
than artist/album. Great.

• About album art not showing in some directories, yes, the problem
came from the directory name containing a space (JAZZ VOCAL)
I renamed all the directories : JAZZ-VOCAL, etc
and now I can see all the album covers!

I'm pleased to hear this!

Quote:• About modifying the tags from inside minimserver,
your user guide shows clearly how to do it but don't you find
this procedure cumbersome if you need to modify dozens of albums?
Anyway, this is not an issue because I use several tagging applications..

Perhaps I misunderstood your earlier comment about wanting to correct index entries without modifying file tags.

The documentation for this facility isn't very good. I'll do a bit of work to improve it. It's actually very easy to make global changes across multiple albums without modifying the file tags. For example, to change all occurrences of
ARTIST=J. S. Bach
to
ARTIST=Johann Sebastian Bach
in all your albums, you would put the following in your tag updates file:
@ARTIST=J. S. Bach
=ARTIST=Johann Sebastian Bach

Quote:• About the windows GUI, maybe it could be more user-friendly.
I wish one had the ability to customize the layout of the tag indexes
like Asset UPnp does : adding ABC, etc..

You can use the alphaGroups property to add alphabetical groupings to all your indexes, or only to some of them. See the release notes for version 0.50 for a description of how to do this.

Quote:• BTW I noticed Songbook Lite sees 16bit 44.1khz mp3 files
as "24bit mp3"

I've checked the output from MinimServer and this is correct. It looks like this is a bug in Songbook Lite. MinimServer is sending 'bitrate=24000' (actually the number of bytes per second, as required by the UPnP specifications). It seems that Songbook Lite is incorrectly interpreting this as '24bit'.