Tagging classical music

[simoncn]

(06-05-2014 03:33)classical11 Wrote:  Lack of explicit support for PDF booklets in the UPnP standard is unfortunate but hopefully there is a way to implement this that does not cause any side issues if the control point does not support this feature.

Simon, you had a few ideas when you investigated this feature request a while back (e.g. using <dc:relation> tag). Is that still an option? And more importantly, are you still considering implementing this feature?

This is the link to the original discussion:
https://forum.minimserver.com/showthread.php?tid=567

I realise this is a difficult feature to implement that needs careful consideration but it would be really great if booklets were supported at some point. I was particularly encouraged by Bubble developer's interest in implementing this. So it seems likely that there would be at least one very high quality control point supporting this feature if it gets implemented in MinimServer.

I have reviewed this discussion thread and I'm not convinced that using dc:relation to pass PDF URLs is a good approach. If support for PDF documents were to be implemented by MinimServer in a future release, I think it would be better for the server to send PDF URLs to the control point as textItem objects.

The other aspect of the previous discussion that remains unresolved is how the server would discover and identify relevant PDF booklets and associate them with tracks, albums or groups. This is not a simple matter, and I'm hesitant to invent a MinimServer-specific solution for this.

There is also the larger issue of how other forms of related information of various kinds (artist bios, composer bios, etc.) could be presented to the user by the control point. Many of these resources will be linked from the web, so a web-based solution that can handle all related resources might be preferable to a server-based solution that applies to PDF booklets only.