thank you and some questions...

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Great to see a UPnP AV server oriented for music playback!

I read all the doc and have a rough idea of the whole thing. Just some comment...

Currently I'm using foobar2000 upnp server. Since foobar supports album art in multiple filenames, I have around 2/3 album art named cover.jpg and 1/3 in folder.jpg (and very few in embedded cover art). It should be great if minimserver can use cover.jpg too.

The idea of user customized tag name is great. In my setup, most of the album are of course from CD, and there are some from SACD, DVD-Audio, Studio Master and even some Vinyl rip. Hence I create a tag name "AUDIOFORMAT", with the string of "Super Audio CD", "DVD Audio", "Studio Master", "USB Audio" (there is an album disturbed on USB flashdrive! quality is 48k/24bit I think), "Vinyl rip" etc. And I modified foobar upnp server browser tree xml to add a tree with this "AUDIOFORMAT" tag. I guess that will work in minimServer too!

IMO, I'm thinking my ideal music playback system... I want a music server which can read any user defined tag, which minimServer already does. Then a controller will list all the tag for the user to browse and search. This new music server may solve half of the problem...

Random ranting, a artist usually has multiple albums, when browsing by artist, I want the list of album to order in release date (sort by the "YEAR" tag), from the newest album to the oldest. But that is impossible, all the controller can do is simply list the list by the server, which is in album name order! For this annoying issue, I spent a few days studying foobar internal expression syntax and appended the release date in front of the album name (when browsing under "Artist" tree). So I can finally have albums under artist listed in release date, BUT, only in ascending order! Listing in descending order is still not possible...