UPnP Search and MinimServer 0.8.1

[simoncn]

(06-01-2014 20:38)Zee Wrote:  Nowadays, the experience you get when doing a search is Google is the reference for most of us.

But this is (understandable) not yet the case when doing a UPNP search (I use BubbleUPNP). Example:

I have a music track that has the following tags:

Artist: English Barok Soloists; Monteverdi Choir
Album: Bach - Cantatas, BWV 106, 118b, 198
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Title: Cantata 106: Chorus: Gloria, Lob, Ehr und Herrlichkeit


Taking the Google experience into account, I would expect to find this track if I search on "bach 106", but I don't.

Also when doing a search on "gardiner 106" I would love to find this track, but I don't.


So any functionality that could help to do searches like this would be highly appreciated. Maybe there are also options to create custom tags that are a concatenation of all other tags and which can be the basis for such queries? Help is appreciated!

The limiting factor here is the UPnP Search specification. A UPnP Search request for 'bach 106' will return only items containing the string 'bach 106'.

As I understand it, the "smart" searches provided by Google require a large warehouse full of computers with power consumption equivalent to a small city. Doing this on a 1.2 GHz ARM NAS would be a huge challenge, to say the least!

An alternative approach would be for the control point to send a UPnP Search query for ('bach' and '106') instead of 'bach 106'. This should produce the results you expect. I'm not aware of any control points that do this.