Fidelia (Mac player) now browses MinimServer libraries directly

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Developer here — Patrick Krekelberg, Audiofile Engineering. Flagging that up front since this is about my own app.

Fidelia, our Mac audiophile player, now browses UPnP/DLNA media servers directly, and MinimServer is one of the servers we proved it on with live libraries before shipping. Your MinimServer library appears in Fidelia's sidebar next to local files — one search across both — and plays out to USB or to any UPnP renderer, either bit-perfect or through the full signal path (crossfeed, psychoacoustic dither, SRC, Audio Unit chain) before it leaves the Mac.

The reason I'm posting here specifically: this forum has the most metadata-serious UPnP users anywhere, and metadata is exactly where UPnP clients earn or lose their keep. DIDL varies between servers far more than the spec suggests, and the awkward cases are where it shows — classical works and movements, multi-disc sets, compilations, very large libraries. If you browse MinimServer in a way you suspect most clients get wrong, I would genuinely like to hear how Fidelia handles it, good or bad.

Browsing your server is free, no purchase. Network playback has a 14-day trial that starts only when you switch it on, so you can install now and start the clock when you actually have an evening for it.

Happy to answer anything about how we read what MinimServer serves.

Cheers and thanks all!