MinimServer and Simaudio Moon

[Andre Gosselin]

(29-11-2013 00:01)simoncn Wrote:  

(28-11-2013 16:59)Andre Gosselin Wrote:  Thanks, files have been sent.

Thanks! These files look OK to me, and they are playing OK as well.

I don't think I'll be able to make further progress on this until I have seen the Wireshark trace for the failing case.

Simon,
Thanks for your reply, and sorry to have taken so long to answer you.

I tried today to rerip the album to see it this could throw some light on my problem. I ripped it in WAV format, no metadata. Everyting streamed OK on the same setup as previously described. I then added metadata one by one, until I set the "AlbumArtist" to "Chopin, Frédéric" (diacritics 'é' are important). The problem reappeared. I experimented with a few combinations on the "é" character:
AlbumArtist = "Chopin, Fredéric" OK
AlbumArtist = "Chopin, Fréderic" OK
AlbumArtist = "Chopin, Frederic" OK
AlbumArtist = "Chopin, Frédéric" FAILURE

It seems that the specific setting "Chopin, Frédéric" with 2 "é" in quick succession is creating the problem. I could verify that all albums in my music library where AlbumArtist is set to this evil string suffer from the same problem.

I never noticed the problem before, maybe because I came somewhat lately to MinimServer and used MediaMonKey before to serve my music. With this server, the problem does not occur, as mentioned before.

I pursued my experiments a bit further, changing components of my setup, one by one. I switched to another music server and reinstalled AssetUPnP which I once tried. The "Moon Mind+AssetUPnP+BubbleUPnP" combination shows the same problem. I switched to another control point, and combinations "Moon Mind+MinimServer+UPnPlay(Android)" and "Moon Mind+MinimServer+MediaHouse (Android)" worked OK.

Finally, combinations "Moon Mind+AssetUPnP+UPnPlay" and "Moon Mind+AssetUPnP+MediaHouse" also worked fine.

This seems to suggest that BubbleUPnP is at the heart of most of the problems, except in the case "Moon Mind+MediaMonkey+BubbleUPnP" which works OK and happened to be my comparison point up to now (so I suspected MinimServer to be the culprit).

Since IMHO the issue seems to lie with the encoding/decoding of diacritics in the XML data stream, do you know from your experience if the way this is done in MinimServer could create some issues for some control points if they are not carefull enough ? Could this be Java specific ?

I am not sure how to exactly and usefully report this problem to the good people (bubbleguum in this case). Is it still necessary to experiment with Wireshark traces ?

Thanks for your help and the time you took so far to answer me.