selecting 'Hide Contents' may crash MinimServer

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(14-08-2012 12:21)bubbleguuum Wrote:  

(14-08-2012 08:46)simoncn Wrote:  If I'm sitting on my sofa using an iPod as control point, I'd prefer not to pop up the small on-screen keyboard to type a search query.

I understand your point, but if you know what you want to play you prefer to browse a huge folder hierarchy instead, with loading times involved, scrolling etc ? Not me.
And past search queries are cached (not the query result, but the search term) so they are 1 click away.

IMHO, both smart browsing and UPnP search have their entitlement, and there is also a need for both.

Smart browsing (which is already implemented perfectly with MinimServer) is a cool feature to explore your media library or for creating a playlist if you don't already certainly know what you want to listen to.

UPnP search is comfortable for large music collections if you already exactly know the title you want (as bubbleguuum mentioned, you don't have to browse, scroll, wait for a container to load multiple times...). Moreover, UPnP search it's a necessity when you for example just remember a part of the title and don't know the artist or ohter information.

This is the only reason I use twonky in parallel to MinimServer, because it supports UPnP search. I use them approximately to equal portions, Minim for browsing and twonky for searching. Once if UPnp search may be available with MinimServer, i will be happy to get rid of the 'old diva' twonky.