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tarnkappe · 08-02-2014, 12:15

Hello,

I am new to minimserver (smoothly installed yesterday on a Synology DS213+). The reasons why I am trying minimserver are

1) support for upnp search. This enables the random track functionality in the BubbleUPnP app. Great!
2) The support for transcoding to wav, because a naim uniti device does sound better when streamed with wav than flac.
3) Cover art is reliably transferred in high resolution (other than with the Synology media server that always forgets about the setting to transfer it that way).

I have read that the Synology media server will support to transcode to wav always, too, in the DSM 5 version. But I have no hope for 1).

After listening to some music I found that all my ogg/vorbis tracks were missing on the minimserver. Ohhhhh nooooo. It's a pitty. Such a good looking server and then such a show stopper for me. Sad

Why I am using ogg instead of mp3: Not only because it is completely free (free like freedom). Also it has better sound quality in low bit rates (what was interesting in former times on mobile mp3/ogg players because storage was small). But the main reason is, that mp3 does not support gapless playback as it is encoded in chunks, where the last chunk is padded with zero to fill it up AFAIK.

Anyhow I have really many music files mainly in flac, mp3 or ogg/vorbis. But I do not want to recode ogg always I get ogg. So I really vote for ogg support in minim server. How much had I to donate to trigger the development on this feature?

Greetings,
Gert