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QNAP designation of MinimServer as EOL

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:43:22 +0000

QNAP has designated MinimServer as EOL (end of life), stating that "the MinimServer package's system requirements and technical architecture no longer meet current technology and security standards. As of 30 September 2026, it no longer receives new releases, security updates, or technical support."

QNAP did not notify me that they were intending to do this and have not responded to my request for information about why they decided to remove MinimServer from QNAP App Center.

MinimServer continues to be fully supported and maintained on all QNAP models running QTS or QuTS hero with downloads available from the MinimServer Downloads page and updates released in the usual way. For more information, see the Installing MinimServer on a QNAP NAS page.

Beta testers wanted for Sklad, a UPnP/OpenHome control point (iOS + Android)

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:53:29 +0000

I'm building Sklad, a control point for local libraries and network players. I've developed it against MinimServer from the start, and I need help with the one thing I can't buy: players I don't own. My thanks to Simon for allowing this post.

Disclosure first, so nobody feels ambushed later: I wrote it, and it will be a paid app — €14.99 a year with a 14-day trial.

My test bench is a Hegel H95 and a Cambridge MXN10, with MinimServer behind them and BubbleUPnP Server as an OpenHome proxy. That is two of the several hundred combinations people actually run, and I would much rather hear about the rest from you than read it in a one-star review.

What would help most — players: Linn, Naim, Auralic, Lumin, HEOS (Marantz/Denon), WiiM, Volumio or another Linux renderer, Aurender, Technics, Yamaha MusicCast, Eversolo. If your gear is already on the tested list at gantticore.com/sklad you're still welcome, but places go first to things nobody has tried yet.

The deal: the first 50 reports from setups I haven't tested get the app for good — no subscription, ever.

Sign up by 13 November at gantticore.com/sklad/beta — four short fields. I'll write back within a day with the TestFlight or Play link.
Send your report within a week of getting access.
The report is mostly one button: in the app, Settings → Device report → Send report sends me what your server and player answered, and nothing else. A short form then asks what you thought.

Feedback is welcome right here in this thread too — what works, what doesn't, what you miss. If something fails, please also tap Send report: it tells me what the devices actually said, which is usually the part a description can't.

What Sklad is: it finds the UPnP/DLNA and OpenHome devices on your network and then gets out of the way. The phone is never in the signal path — the server streams straight to the player. Library browsing by album, artist, composer, genre, folder and year, built for collections too big for one screen; OpenHome queues that live on the device; internet radio; direct IP control for Hegel amplifiers; wake-from-standby for Cambridge StreamMagic players.

What it is not: no Qobuz, no Tidal, no Roon, and no playback on the phone itself. You need your own UPnP server and player.

Ask here first if you'd rather — I read everything, and I'll say honestly whether your gear is likely to work.

Senad

QNAP QTS install failure

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:38:44 +0000

I'm trying to install on a QNAP TS216G (intel) running QTS 5.2.11.3661. The install of the MinimServer 2.2 Download for QNAP QTS Intel fails with the error message that "The installation package is incompatible". JRE 8.151.2.3 is installed. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Control App

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:34:59 +0000

For those of you who have Linn streaming equipment and have been frustrated by Linn's refusal to develop a new Windows app (and have had, therefore, to suffer frequent Kazoo crashes), I have a solution. I have used Claude to develop an app from scratch which controls my three systems, using MinimServer as the music server. It was surprisingly easy and the standalone app can be used on both Windows and Android.

Mono tracks, transcoding and AI

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:59:45 +0000

I have transcoding and replaygain working with these parameters:-

Code:

/opt/bubbleupnpserver/ffmpeg

convOut=-af volume=replaygain=track

mp4:wav24/-, mp3:wav24/-, alac:wav24/-, aac:wav24/-

This works as intended except for some tracks which were encoded by iTunes into aac at 160kbps mono (see jpg). These are played by my WiiM Ultra in wav24 in stereo, but at double fast time, making them all sound like Micky Mouse on helium gas. I know this is probably related to ffmpeg rather than MinimServer, but maybe someone can suggest a fix, other than re-encoding them all!

Some of these tracks were actually encoded at 128k mono, but I noticed that MinimServer groups them all (160k and 128k) in Audio Data as 128k for some reason, although this is not an issue for me.

Any suggestions welcome.
Marmite.
Edit: jpg attached.

aacMono.jpg (Size: 58.82 KB / Downloads: 3)

Turning on/off replaygain for playlists.

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:27:06 +0000

Maybe someone has some experience with this. I couldn't find any references. I have a library containing a mixture of formats, bit rates and sampling rates, maintained using iTunes. I mainly use BubbleUPnP for control and the renderer is a WiiM, with a BubbleUPNP Server proxy, in order to take advantage of OpenHome features. Many of these tracks are arranged into playlists which I use often, but as you can imagine, the volume levels often vary widely, which is unwanted.

All the tracks in the playlists have had track replaygain applied, using foobar2000, and I have been using another feature of BubbleUPnP Server to apply the replaygain when required. This feature is causing me some problems, so I am experimenting with MinimServer/Streamer as a substitute. I have the transcoding and replaygain working with these parameters:-

Code:

/opt/bubbleupnpserver/ffmpeg

convOut=-af volume=replaygain=track

mp4:wav24/-, mp3:wav24/-, alac:wav24/-, aac:wav24/-

The problem is that I don't want replaygain on when not playing playlists. It would cause havoc with albums where some tracks are in playlists. I can use the configuration website to change profiles from transcoding/replaygain to no transcoding, but I then need to restart the server. The config website has restart buttons, but they seem to be permanently greyed out. I can use MinimWatch to restart, but this requires being at a PC. I would like to restart from a webpage, preferably the same one that I used to change the profile.

I also use OpenMediaVault to manage the server, which gives me the option to remotely submit stored linux scripts or console commands via the OMV webpage. Maybe there is a command which can change the profile, and one which can restart the server? That would be cool.

Any suggestions welcome.
Marmite.

Create a tag that only displays under Artist

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:10:59 +0000

I use mp3Tag to add the meta data to my files. I have created a new tag called Collections and mapped it to ALBUMARTISTSORT.

If I add it to indexTags as Albumartistsort:Collections and if I add Albumartistsort.default={'Non Collections'} to tagValue it works great but is there a way I can set the tag so that Collections doesn't display in my control point top level list but does show under Artist when there is a collection for that artist?

"and" vs "&" in artist names

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:52:37 +0000

Is there any way one can configure MinimServer, maybe using tag options or tag value customisation, to treat "and" and "&" the same when sorting?

For example, most Nick Cave albums are by "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds" whereas others use "Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds". It would be great to have some listed under the same Artist. Of course, that would also require defining whether all album should appear under "... and ..." or "... & ...".

No big issue, just nice to not mess with the meta data unless necessary.

Docker installation Linux

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:48:56 +0000

Hello,

I'm trying to install 2.2 via docker on Ubuntu 26., but get an error message from:

docker create -v host-content-dir:/Music:ro --network host --name container-name minimserver:2.2

when I replaced /Music:ro with my own folder name - /mnt/blake_road/sounds and also
a container-name of my own choosing - in this case, minimserver.

The error produced is:

unknown shorthand flag: 'v' in -v

Usage: docker service create [OPTIONS] IMAGE [COMMAND] [ARG...]

Any ideas or updates, please?

Many thanks,

Ben

MinimServer license purchases suspended (now fixed)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:25:32 +0000

MinimServer license purchases are currently unavailable because of a technical issue with my web hosting provider. I am hoping this will be resolved soon but I cannot provide a more specific time estimate.

Automatic renewals for MinimServer updates license repeating subscriptions that were started before 22 October are still being processed with a short delay (typically a few hours) before the extended updates expiry date is activated and confirmed by email.

MinimServer forum issues (now fixed)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:06:11 +0000

I have been unable to post to the forum since 22 October (403 errors) but it appears this is now working. If anyone else has been seeing the same issue when trying to post, please try again now.

Also, if you see any unexpected errors when using the forum, please post here with details of what you were doing and the complete exact text of the error message.

reverseName settings not reapplying correctly

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:11:27 +0000

Until recently my Composer.reverseName.display, Composer.reverseName.display.index settings were working fine, so, for example, Ludwig van Beethoven was shown as such while showing under B in my Naim app controller. Everything has been working swimmingly for months. I added some more Beethoven music with (mistakenly) Beethoven as the composer so naturally and correctly I saw both Beethoven and Ludwig van Beethoven as composers under B. After I corrected Beethoven in the file tags to Ludwig van Beethoven, all old and new Beethoven moved to be displayed in my Naim controller under L for Ludwig van Beethoven not B. It did not honour the settings. The other music was still displayed/indexed by lastname. I could not correct it so I removed the composer name reversal/display/indexing from settings. I managed to get it all sorted correctly by first name in the Naim controller only after a "Restart" for 1024 albums. Then I put the composer settings back to try to reindex everything by last name. Despite a restart everything is back where it was with just about all composers correctly sorted by last name, but Ludwig van Beethoven is stubbornly under L. I also had the same problem with another composer. I am also terminating the Naim app and reopening it with each try.

Anyway to force this to work correctly and obey the reverseName settings (I am also using Artist names the same way)? I am doing something wrong or there is gremlin in the system.

The server runs on a Pi 4B under the PiOS lite 64 bit (headless), controller is the Naim app. MinimWatch is running on Windows 11 used to configure etc the server (I would use Linux Mint only that doesn't work go figure for a top linux distro - way too many hoops to get that going and it still didn't work, I did try).

Multiple minimserver incidents Ubuntu

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:50:00 +0000

During the upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04, I think I installed a second incident of minimserver, my original account (ericuco) and a second (ericuco.2). This is headless microcomputer so I use minimwatch to monitor on my Windows laptop.

When I start up minimwatch, 2 icons now show up. If I select "configure" in minimwatch, one shows "ericuco" and the other ericuco.2". How do I get rid of "ericuco.2"?

Cannot activate license

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:45:11 +0000

Having just restored a Win 11 backup I cannot activate my licence.
Minimserver reports 'error opening resource stream'.
Minimserver 2.2 update v275
Minimstreamer 2.1.4

JPLAY: UPnP control point for iPhone, iPad and Mac (official thread)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:06:29 +0000

Hi everyone,

I’m Marcin, and I make JPLAY. A good number of JPLAY users run MinimServer as their library server, and Simon kindly suggested starting a thread here. This is where I’ll post release news and tips, and where you can ask questions and suggest features.

What JPLAY is

JPLAY is a UPnP AV control point for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It doesn’t need a core or any server software of its own. It talks directly to your renderer and to your media server, so with MinimServer there’s nothing extra to install. Alongside your MinimServer library, it brings TIDAL, Qobuz, HIGHRESAUDIO and internet radio into one library. It can also control HQPlayer natively through its Control API. (on top of UPnP)

When you play to a renderer, JPLAY doesn’t touch the audio. It tells the renderer what to play and where to fetch it, and the renderer fetches the file directly from MinimServer. There’s no transcoding or resampling in the app, and there are settings to keep control traffic to the renderer to a minimum. It’s written natively in Swift and supports CarPlay. It can also play straight to headphones or the car, including downloaded albums offline.

Using JPLAY with MinimServer

JPLAY syncs your MinimServer library into its own index on the device, so browsing and searching stay fast even with 100,000+ tracks. There’s also a folder view that follows your folder structure.
After adding music or changing tags or artwork, run Rescan in MinimServer, then Sync in JPLAY. (Rescan can be triggered from JPLAY app too)

Gapless playback works on renderers that support it, and you can set it per renderer.

JPLAY Certified

UPnP implementations vary, so we work with manufacturers on compatibility. JPLAY is tested with their streamers and DACs, we fix what needs fixing. The list includes dCS, MSB Technology, Weiss, Bricasti, Totaldac, Esoteric, TEAC, Nagra, Grimm Audio, Lumin, Hegel, Ayre, Primare, aqua acoustic quality and others. The certified models are listed at jplay.app/partner-program. If your renderer isn’t there, it will most likely still work, and if it doesn’t, please tell me.

How this thread will work

I’ll post release notes and short tips here. Questions, setup descriptions and feature requests are all welcome, especially anything MinimServer-specific you’d like JPLAY to handle better. For troubleshooting that needs logs, please email contact@jplay.app, since that’s hard to handle in a public thread.

There’s a 14-day free trial on the App Store. You need to start a subscription to use the app, but nothing is charged during the 14 days, and you can cancel at any time within that period if you don’t want to continue. More information: https://jplay.app/

Best regards,
Marcin
JPLAY

Minstrel - asking for early testers

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:22:55 +0000

Having some music at home NAS and traveling by car fairly often, I have for years been using minimserver over BubbleUPnP. However, bubbleupnp was lacking in several areas and has not made any improvements.

So I decided to write my own player app and transport server (not the media server, minim is great). I would like to introduce Minstrel.

What I hope will make it better than bubbleupnp:

Ease of configuration:
* Connect by sharing one token per device or QR code to your phone app
* Launchpad program for outbound connection runs from any NAS or router, I tested mac, Linux and FreeBSD. This is similar to BubbleUPnP server in some ways but not others.
* If you cannot or do not want to tweak your router, you can launch a small service image in the cloud to facilitate connections from both sides without opening inbound ports or touching the firewall. Works across CGNAT, carrier firewalls and whenever you do not control the router.
* App runs on Android or iOS (flutter), can easily build elsewhere
* Android Auto and Apple Car Play
* Gapless by default
* Open source (BSD 3 clause).

Other than this, at home it is just your typical UPnP/DLNA player control point; plays any audio or video locally or to any discovered renderer.

The app is built and works in my Android phone. What I need is a few early testers in the official stores, especially on Google Play and Apple App Store. It is currently in initial review at both stores. If you are interested, please send your email and platform (iOS or android) to support@minstrelplayer.org or PM here and I can send you an invite. Your email will be used only for this invite and only once.

For any further questions see http://minstrelplayer.org and the linked github.

Album Tracks Sorting Alphabetically?

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:22:45 +0000

I recently purchased a Matrix Audio NT-1 streamer, I was having problems getting it to work with my previous UPnP, server Asset installed on my QNAP NAS drive & saw the recommended UpnP server is Minimserver, so I downloaded the free version to give it a try. It synchronizes with my library without issue but I see if I browse by artist, their albums are sorted alphabetically & then when you select an album, they too are sorted alphabetically instead of track #. I don't believe this is normal even with the free version? All my files are FLAC, ripped with I believe the default dBpoweramp tag defaults. When I check the IDtags I think they are good, (sample attached) any help?

sample tag.jpg (Size: 121.17 KB / Downloads: 12)

Errors when reinstalling MinimServer 2 on a RaspberrPi 4

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 13:31:43 +0000

In trying to troubleshoot an instance of MS on a QNAP NAS, I looked to the settings in my flawlessly running MinimServer on a Raspberry Pi 4. Now I've managed to mess that up too! I decided to make a clean sweep and succeeded in uninstalling it, but have run into problems reinstalling. Here's the read-out:

Code:

nick@RPi4:~ $ minimserver/bin/startc

MinimServer 2.2, Copyright (c) 2012-2022 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.

OpenJDK Server VM warning: You have loaded library /home/nick/minimserver/tmp/native/libohNet.so which might have disabled stack guard. The VM will try to fix the stack guard now.

It's highly recommended that you fix the library with 'execstack -c ', or link it with '-z noexecstack'.

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/nick/minimserver/tmp/native/libohNet.so: /home/nick/minimserver/tmp/native/libohNet.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 (Possible cause: architecture word width mismatch)

    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load0(Native Method)

    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(ClassLoader.java:2450)

    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:2506)

    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:2705)

    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:2648)

    at java.base/java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:830)

    at java.base/java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1890)

    at org.jminim.lib.OhNetService.createLibrary(OhNetService.java:835)

    at org.jminim.lib.OhNetService.createDeviceStack(OhNetService.java:737)

    at org.jminim.lib.OhNetService.createDeviceFactory(OhNetService.java:645)

    at org.jminim.lib.OhNetService.access$3300(OhNetService.java:59)

    at org.jminim.lib.OhNetService$Proxy.createDeviceFactory(OhNetService.java:1339)

    at org.jminim.lib.MonitorService$Monitor.startDevice(MonitorService.java:318)

    at org.jminim.lib.MonitorService$Monitor.createDevice(MonitorService.java:299)

    at org.jminim.lib.MonitorService$Monitor.listenerAdded(MonitorService.java:394)

    at org.jminim.core.RuntimeImpl.addEventListener(RuntimeImpl.java:2563)

    at org.jminim.lib.RuntimeService$Proxy.addEventListener(RuntimeService.java:236)

    at com.minimserver.Server.doStart(Server.java:1824)

    at com.minimserver.Server.start(Server.java:1400)

    at org.jminim.core.ContextImpl.startComponent(ContextImpl.java:240)

    at org.jminim.core.ContextImpl.start(ContextImpl.java:128)

    at org.jminim.core.RootContextImpl.startComponent(RootContextImpl.java:80)

    at org.jminim.core.ContextImpl.start(ContextImpl.java:128)

    at org.jminim.core.RuntimeImpl.run(RuntimeImpl.java:2796)

    at org.jminim.core.LauncherImpl.run(LauncherImpl.java:1317)

    at org.jminim.core.LauncherImpl.launch(LauncherImpl.java:125)

    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.ja​va:62)

    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccesso​rImpl.java:43)

    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)

    at org.jminim.mlaunch.MinimLaunch.doLaunch(MinimLaunch.java:525)

    at org.jminim.mlaunch.MinimLaunch.launch(MinimLaunch.java:150)

    at org.jminim.mlaunch.MinimLaunch.launch(MinimLaunch.java:90)

    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.ja​va:62)

    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccesso​rImpl.java:43)

    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)

    at org.jminim.launch.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:88)

    at com.minimserver.launch.LaunchServer.main(LaunchServer.java:38)

MinimServer error: now stopped, use 'restart' or 'exit'

What do I need to do to be up and running again?

Gapless Playback

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:30:13 +0000

I caanot seem to get gapless playback to play seemlessly. No matter what i do there is always a stutter between track changes. I listen to alot of dj mixes so this a real bug bear!
Im running the local files using minimserver. I have created an openhome renderer using bubbleupnp server, controlled using the bubbleupnp android app.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Status: Failed; Unable to migrate previous configuration

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:40:47 +0000

This follows the replacement of the hard drives in a QNAP NAS, which had MinimServer installed though not active for a long time. Before the upgrade I backed up my apps and data, including MS, and after reinitialising the QNAP I restored everything. I suspect when the apps were restored MS automatically created fresh config files which caused problems when I then restored my data, which included the previous MinimServer folder.

The full messages displayed are: "Media server status for MinimServer[LandroNAP]: Failed"

And: "Unable to migrate previous configuration; saved as minimserver.config.copy"
This latter line is repeated in the log file four times; the log contains no other clues.

I tried deleting minimserver.config and minimserver.config.save, then relaunching MS, as that worked on a previous similar situation on a Raspberry Pi, but it hasn't helped this time. I see there's a minimserver.config.error file, which lists two different config versions: at line 1 ".configVersion = 2.2.120" and at line 8 "minimserver.configVersion = 2.2.139"

Could that be the problem?

Here's the full error file:

Code:

.configVersion = 2.2.120

.licenseType = full

.logLevel = debug

minimserver.activeProfile = default

minimserver.monitorUDN = 5101e9b4-5646-4448-b6dc-99afb4a92e6c

minimserver.udn = 9685c06b-fe6d-4b69-9a05-9d4d8d845f01

minimserver.systemUpdateID = 4

minimserver.configVersion = 2.2.139

minimserver.lastRescan = 1792171867686

minimserver.license = 2.0.4

minimserver.checkedUpdates = minimserver-2.2.jmupd\nminimserver-update-245;1699950043335

.updatesExpiry = 20270728

minimserver.indexTags = Composer, WORK, Artist, Conductor, Orchestra, Date, Genre, *RecentAdded, *RecentPlayed, \#AudioData, \#AudioFormat

.logFile = /share/Public/minimserver.log

minimserver.mergeFolderAlbums = true

stream.options = streamSize\=4gb

stream.transcode = aac\:wav

minimserver.tagFormat = Artist.displayFormat\={$artist$orchestra$conductor}

minimserver.tagOptions = Album.sortTags\={Album, Artist}

stream.configVersion = 2.1.104

stream.baseTime = 1778268806165

minimserver.contentDir = /share/Multimedia/MUSIC

.integrityCheck = 20fc9beb6dfb36fa279e0fa10a52f57ab