Odd behavior when playing genre - multiple songs added

[simoncn]

(13-03-2014 09:06)Shutterstrom Wrote:  I think I know what is happening...
I get the same behavior when I try to play songs from one specific year.

This is how I do when I want to play a music genre (using Kinsky on my iOS devise):
1. In the root menu i select "Genre"
2. Scroll to "Funk" genre and hold my finger on that item so that the options in Kinsky comes up: Play Now / Play Next / Play Later / Cancel.

When I select "Play Now" I think this is what happens, because in the sub menu for a genre there are more menu items:
In "Funk it says: 3 albums / 37 items / Artist / Date / All Artists

What I think is happening is that MinimServer tries to load all the above info into one playlist and thus loops all the above info ("3 albums / 37 items / Artist / Date / All Artists").

Is that how it should work or might it be a "feature" (don't want to call it a bug)?

Cheers

It is the control point (not MinimServer) that is looping though all the submenus underneath the Genre menu and loading duplicate copies of the tracks.

With traditional music servers that use a fixed hierachy for the browse tree, there would be only one browse path from the "Genre" menu down to each track. MinimServer provides multiple browse paths depending on your tagging and your previous selections (Intelligent Browsing), and you are getting a separate copy of the track for each of these browsing paths.

You have two options to avoid this duplication:

1) Use a control point that has been designed to avoid loading duplicates, such as BubbleDS on Android.

2) Set the listViewAlbums property in MinimServer to a very large number such as 9999, then restart MinimServer. This effectively disables Intelligent Browsing by presenting you with a flat list of albums from each menu selection such as Genre, Artist, etc.