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UPnP Search and MinimServer 0.8.1
02-01-2014, 20:42 (This post was last modified: 02-01-2014 20:44 by bubbleguuum.)
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RE: UPnP Search and MinimServer 0.8.1
Search requests are indeed dependent on the Control Point.

BubbleDS / BubbleUPnP emits several predefined search requests that will probably cover 95% of a user's need.

UPnP allow arbitrary search requests such as "give me all albums between 1980 and 1985 whose genre is classical or punk".
Theorically, a control point could give the user the ability to build its own requests, possibly as complex as he wants. In practice no control point does it because:

- it is not user-friendly, especially on mobile devices where things are kept simple. You'd have to present a form to build search requests.
- most media servers do not implement UPnP Search or implement it partially or not correctly (this is slowly changing)

Speaking of foo_upnp searching MinimServer, current version only searches track titles. I will release a newer version soon that searches many more tags besides titles presented a single result list (unlike BubbleUPnP).
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RE: UPnP Search and MinimServer 0.8.1 - bubbleguuum - 02-01-2014 20:42

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