How to organize and tag classical music

[Pastim]

(13-12-2014 14:33)Ghieri Wrote:  

(11-12-2014 21:46)Pastim Wrote:  Strange. It works on my Android BubbleUPnP (latest version). I can play an Album, or a Group in it. There must either be some settings difference or a software version issue.

There are several ways to play an album in bubbleUPnP.
The way I am used to is entering the album (by short-pressing it) and then pressing the "play" button at the top, or pressing the first track within the album. As I described in my recent post, only non-grouped tracks will play then.
Now I found that there is a way an album consisting of groups will play well on my equipment: selecting the album (by long-pressing it) and then press the "play" button, which appears if one or more albums are selected.
I think this second way is rather long-winded and thus not very satisfying for me.

This behaviour is repeatable with various instances of minimserver (Synology NAS and Raspberry), on various renderers and with various brands of Android devices. I also tried a fresh install of minimserver with the default settings, and used fresh installs of the latest BubbleUPnP version on all Android devices as well.

Am I doing something wrong? Pastim, what is your way to play an album?

I'm testing using the current minimserver, bubbleupnp 2.1.2 on Android 4.4.4 on a smartphone using its local renderer, connected by wifi.

If I go through the indexes and find a set of Albums, there are 3 dots in a vertical line to the right of each one. I click on that to play (or play next or whatever) the Album. If I click on the Album I get to the Groups. I play them in exactly the same way - click on the dots to the right. If I click on the Group I get to it's tracks and I can play them in the same way. In addition I can play the whole Group which is shown at the top of the list.

One thing that I now realise is different from you is that I made a policy decision on my tagging that all tracks in my classical library are in Groups, even if a Group of only one track. Conversely all tracks in my other libraries are not in Groups. However, I'd be surprised if this was an issue.

In fact I hardly ever use bubbleupnp, since my main control point is on linux (upplay) and controls my hi-fi renderer.