Tagging classical music

[simoncn]

(05-05-2014 01:53)magister Wrote:  I would love to have a PDF viewer integrated into my control point, such as David describes. That certainly is the perfect, complete solution. I don't think it's coming anytime soon, unfortunately. Someday . . . I hope.

Meanwhile, I would be very happy to go into MinimServer's folder view, open an album folder, and see the PDF booklet (if I have one for that album) listed. (If a booklet is available, I download it and store it in the same folder as the music files for the album.) Double-tapping would open the booklet using the default PDF viewer on one's tablet or PC. I have no idea if that kind of thing is easy or possible, but it seems like it might be. I wouldn't suggest that Simon spend an inordinate amount of time on such a feature, but if it were fairly easy to implement I think it would be a good solution for the time being. Better than opening a PDF viewer manually and navigating to the PDF through a long path.

I don't think it would be easy to implement the approach you are suggesting.

The files you see in folder view are not the contents of the folder. This information is a UPnP AV container that MinimServer sends to the control point and the control point displays just like any other UPnP AV container. The items in the UPnP AV container are UPnP AV items (audio files) that MinimServer has found while scannng the folder.

The only way to include PDF files in the UPnP AV container would befor MinimServer to scan for PDF files in the folder and send these to the control point as the UPnP AV "textItem" type. I don't think there are currently any control points that can display such items, so the result would be at best an entry in the list that does nothing when the user taps on it, or at worst some unpredictable behaviour by the control point.

The possibility of unpredictable behaviour would require a new MinimServer option to enable the discovery and display of these items. It would be a substantial piece of work to modify the current MinimServer scanning and caching mechanism (which deals with audio files only) to optionally handle PDF files as well.

I could go on, but I hope this is enough to show why something that might appear simple from a user perspective raises some complex issues from an implementation perspective.