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zoltanzylox · 19-11-2014, 04:18

Thanks for Minim Server. It's fast and really thorough. I just need one thing to make my life better. I want to be able to send the comment tag to the control point so it will display along with the title and artist. I have a jazz collection that has all the info about which musicians are playing in the comment tag, and I often need to see who is playing. Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance.

simoncn · 19-11-2014, 07:49

(19-11-2014 04:18)zoltanzylox Wrote: Thanks for Minim Server. It's fast and really thorough. I just need one thing to make my life better. I want to be able to send the comment tag to the control point so it will display along with the title and artist. I have a jazz collection that has all the info about which musicians are playing in the comment tag, and I often need to see who is playing. Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance.

This sounds like the same issue that was discussed in this thread. Are you using JRiver as the control point?

zoltanzylox · 19-11-2014, 16:01

This sounds like the same issue that was discussed in this thread. Are you using JRiver as the control point?
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No I'm using Bubble on Android. I wasn't clear enough. What I'm really trying to figure out is how to get the the comments tag to display in "Now Playing" and/or Playlist. Is this possible?

simoncn · 19-11-2014, 16:19

(19-11-2014 16:01)zoltanzylox Wrote: No I'm using Bubble on Android. I wasn't clear enough. What I'm really trying to figure out is how to get the the comments tag to display in "Now Playing" and/or Playlist. Is this possible?

I'm not aware of a standard field in the UPnP protocol that could be used by the server to send this information to the control point. I will contact the author of BubbleUPnP to see if he has any ideas about this.

simoncn · 19-11-2014, 17:53

(19-11-2014 16:19)simoncn Wrote: I'm not aware of a standard field in the UPnP protocol that could be used by the server to send this information to the control point. I will contact the author of BubbleUPnP to see if he has any ideas about this.

I've had a response and there is a field that can be used for this. I'll add this to the list of requested enhancements for a future update.

zoltanzylox · 19-11-2014, 20:27

I've had a response and there is a field that can be used for this. I'll add this to the list of requested enhancements for a future update.
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Thanks! I appreciate your hard work and efficient response. Minimserver makes listening to my collection much more enjoyable.

simoncn · 23-12-2014, 22:49

(19-11-2014 16:01)zoltanzylox Wrote: No I'm using Bubble on Android. I wasn't clear enough. What I'm really trying to figure out is how to get the the comments tag to display in "Now Playing" and/or Playlist. Is this possible?

This feature is now available in update 53. Unfortunately, you can't see the comment data in BubbleUPnP because of a bug in BubbleUPnP. The author of BubbleUPnP is aware of this problem.

Andre Gosselin · 08-01-2015, 20:19

(23-12-2014 22:49)simoncn Wrote:
(19-11-2014 16:01)zoltanzylox Wrote: No I'm using Bubble on Android. I wasn't clear enough. What I'm really trying to figure out is how to get the the comments tag to display in "Now Playing" and/or Playlist. Is this possible?

This feature is now available in update 53. Unfortunately, you can't see the comment data in BubbleUPnP because of a bug in BubbleUPnP. The author of BubbleUPnP is aware of this problem.

Changelog of newly released v2.2.3 of BubbleUPnP reports:

Quote:"fixed description field never shown in metadata dialog

Is this in any way related to the display of the contents of COMMENT tags, which should now be possible since MinimServer update 53 ? If so, should this be automatic or is there a setting to activate inside minimserver ?

Regards

simoncn · (This post was last modified: 08-01-2015 23:12 by simoncn.)

(08-01-2015 20:19)Andre Gosselin Wrote: Changelog of newly released v2.2.3 of BubbleUPnP reports:

Quote:"fixed description field never shown in metadata dialog
Is this in any way related to the display of the contents of COMMENT tags, which should now be possible since MinimServer update 53 ? If so, should this be automatic or is there a setting to activate inside minimserver ?

Regards

For this to work, you need to include Comment in itemTags or indexTags.

Andre Gosselin · 09-01-2015, 02:48

(08-01-2015 23:12)simoncn Wrote:
(08-01-2015 20:19)Andre Gosselin Wrote: Changelog of newly released v2.2.3 of BubbleUPnP reports:

Quote:"fixed description field never shown in metadata dialog
Is this in any way related to the display of the contents of COMMENT tags, which should now be possible since MinimServer update 53 ? If so, should this be automatic or is there a setting to activate inside minimserver ?

Regards

For this to work, you need to include Comment in itemTags or indexTags.

Thanks Simon,
Your advice worked, but I have another problem.
I tend to use the COMMENT tag to store free form multi-line text which is difficult to "formalize" using standard tags. A good example is the cast of an opera. I frequently copy-paste this text from other sources like the album booklet originally in PDF format. I found that, in doing this, I may paste an "illegal" character into the COMMENT tag, which MinimServer reports as follows inside the log file:

Quote:Warning: illegal character 0x01 in COMMENT tag value in file Callas, Maria/Callas- Lyric & Coloratura arias (1954) - etc...

From my observations, it appears that this illegal character is almost always an '0x01' character. Even if this situation is qualified in the log as a "warning", the net result is that the COMMENT tag is then completely ignored by MinimServer, and not sent to the comtrol point (BubbleUPnP in my case).

Unfortunately, trying to isolate those illegal characters in the tag field proves very difficult. I have tried 3 different softwares to help me about that, to no avail (Mp3tag, Foobar, MediaMonkey): all three display the full COMMENT tag contents, with the illegal characters replaced by a space character. The only way for me out of this issue is to paste the contents into a programmer's editor (notepad++), where the '0x01' characters are displayed as 'SOH'.

Given that the COMMENT is meant to store free-style text where occasional "illegal" characters do not seem to create problems to other softwares like Mp3tag, and because of the difficulties shown above to isolate those bad characters, could it be possible for MinimServer to relax a bit the rules about the presence of illegal characters inside the COMMENT tag ? Could those simply be ignored when reporting the tag contents to the control point, instead of completely ignoring the tag field ?

Thanks for your help