MinimServer for Android?

[simoncn]

(08-07-2014 12:53)haggis999 Wrote:  It's now over a year since I made a start on ripping my CD collection. This came to a halt while I diverted myself to the investigation of how to rip DVDs and Blu-rays and how to play computer-based media. However, I have spent the past month steadily ripping the rest of my (90% classical) CDs and the end is now in sight.

With appropriate levels of MP3 compression, I could probably fit my entire collection on to a 64GB micro SD card and I am now considering how best to keep up with the younger generation and make my music available at all times, via my Android smartphone and/or my car's media system. I have only just realised that this presents exactly the same user interface issues for classical music as are solved at home by the use of MinimServer on my NAS.

Is there ever going to be a possibility of a version of MinimServer for Android? If not, are there any other Android media servers that have some classical-friendly features?

David

Producing a version of MinimServer for Android has been on my wish list for some time. The main problem is that Android is designed to be a client platform and (when I last looked at this) doesn't deal well with apps that run all the time in the background, such as media servers. Specifically, if foreground apps are consuming a lot of system resources, Android may terminate background apps as needed to free up resources. This requires background apps to maintain saved state that enables them to resume quickly from where they last left off. This would require some significant design changes to MinimServer.