Album Artist while browsing

[simoncn]

(27-01-2014 18:55)Mike48 Wrote:  Simon, I contacted the BubbleUPnP author, who replied:

>> I could reproduce this issue. Unfortunately I cannot fix it without annoying side effects. For folders, BubbleUPnP only displays the album artist if the folder is known to be a music album (identified by the "object.container.album.musicAlbum" folder type). With the generic type "object.container", I have no idea what the folder contains. It could be photos or videos. And I don't want to display the folder's artist unconditionally.

>> Your best bet is to try to convince Simon to useobject.container.album.musicAlbum" for these folders containing partial albums. I think this would be acceptable but my guess is that Simon opinion will differ... <<

So Simon, would you be willing to take that approach (perhaps as an option)? It would help add useful functionality for those of us browsing classical music.

Mike

According to the UPnP ContentDirectory specification, ".... an 'album' is typically a fixed published sequence of songs (e.g., an audio CD)."

MinimServer uses the 'object.container.album.musicAlbum' UPnP class for the complete contents of a CD and doesn't use it for a user-generated browsing selection of a partial subset of tracks from a CD. I think it would be confusing if these two different cases were treated in exactly the same way by MinimServer.

I don't fully understand why the author of BubbleUPnP thinks it would not be appropriate to display artist information on a generic container, if this is what the server has sent. However, I accept that it is up to the control point to decide whether or not information sent by the server should be displayed.

A possible compromise might be to use the 'object.container.playlistContainer' UPnP class to represent a partial subset of tracks from a CD. According to the UPnP ContentDirectory specification, this ".... may contain a mix of audio, video and images and is typically created by a user". I have tried sending this to BubbleUPnP with artist information, but the artist information is currently not displayed.