selecting 'Hide Contents' may crash MinimServer

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Now I understand. "Hide Content" is a hint for minimserver to not generate duplicates when being recursively browsed.

(10-08-2012 11:42)simoncn Wrote:  It's like walking a tightrope and keeping a delicate balance between providing improved user functionality (one one hand) and staying compatible with the UPnP specification and existing control points (on the other hand). There are inevitably a few corner cases that don't work, and the UI isn't as clean as I would like. You could think of it as a working prototype for some advanced features that will hopefully become standard in the next generation of servers and control points.

Any specific feature(s) you have in mind that are difficult to achieve with th current standard ?


Some Control Points have gone the route of building their own database from an UPnP Media Server to overcome some limitations, with the rmedia server being only there for initially crawling content, get updates and serve content.
Notably, WMP, J River Media Center and Songbook (iOS) do this.
I'm ambivalent on this solution. I can see the advantages (custom navigation, global search) but it duplicates Media Server functionality and creates new problems on the CP side (syncing).