Minimserver & Jplay

[alfonso]

Hello, my name is Alfonso. This is my first post on the forum, although I’ve been following it for various topics, even if I have to admit that technically some of them are beyond my understanding. I apologize in advance if my questions have already been answered before.

These questions basically relate to how MinimServer works with JPLAY. The first one concerns the MinimServer icon that appears on each album in JPLAY. As far as I understand, if JPLAY works with other UPnP servers, the application should take the icon directly from MinimServer itself. If that is the case, would it be possible for MinimServer to transmit an icon with a transparent background? That way it would blend into the album artwork, in a similar way to what happens with Roon.

In my case, 99% of my library consists of local files, with the occasional album added from Qobuz. This leads to my second question, which is about the order in which JPLAY displays artists in the library. For example, in the case of Frank Zappa, it appears listed under “F”. In my case, the metadata for one of his albums would be as follows:
Artist: Frank Zappa & The Mothers (or Frank Zappa)
AlbumArtist: Frank Zappa
AlbumArtistSort: Zappa, Frank

Previously, the AlbumArtist field was set to “Zappa, Frank”, but any album added from Qobuz appeared incorrectly placed. I believe this is impossible to correct, as it depends on Qobuz. Nevertheless, is it possible to get JPLAY to sort Frank Zappa under “Z” with my current metadata? If that’s not possible, could I use “reverse” in some way so that it would be sorted as “Zappa, Frank” (AlbumArtist) but displayed as “Frank Zappa”?

Many thanks in advance for the reply.

Kind regards.

Alfonso