Feedback on a great audio server software

[minim-user]

Phew, I feel a bit disarmed now...
Thanks a lot for your feedback on my feedback which I'd like to give a little feedback on

1. Quote:Regarding point 1 [...] isn't possible for MinimServer to know which control point you are using

   I understand your point. I thought once more about it, and I believe that my requirement in fact is not (only) about resizing, but about client-dependent behavior. To cover my scenario, MinimServer would have to behave differently dependent on the client, where client identification could be done with user agent and/or IP address. This would allow to resize the cover on a per-client basis, but could also be used for other features like transcoding audio or custom title representation per client. I guess that implementing this feature probably requires a lot of work, but I'd like to put it onto the feature request stack.
   
   Remark about the term client: I know that there are different kinds of client in UPnP - control point and renderer - but since my devices have both of those roles, I cannot distinguish between them currently; I will analyze this using a separate control point in the near future.

2. Quote:Regarding point 2 [...] is no longer possible to set the Description field for music files

   Thanks for your analysis on the desc atom. I didn't know this is a proprietary mapping by MP3Tag only. I prefer non-custom mappings wherever possible, so maybe I should change my tagging here. I've read about a MP4 tag field ----:com.apple.iTunes:SUBTITLE on Hydrogenaudio that is used by Picard. I don't know neither understand that yet, but I will have a look into it.

3. Quote:On your point 3. It's not really a limitation

   That's OK for me then, although it's a little bit hard to distinguish these warnings from other warnings in the log.

4. Quote:Regarding point 4

   Nice to hear, see this post as a feature request then.
5. I wrote that
   

   Quote:I'm looking for a solution that supports [...] management of multiple server instances

   MinimServer certainly does that. I'm currently working on a few scripts to easily setup and manage several instances on a single machine with little manual effort, one configuration file per instance in a central directory, optionally running as separate systemd services. Please let me know if you're interested in this feature, I could provide my code here or on GitHub then.
   

Last but not least: Thanks once more for your fast and detailed responses!

- Christian