Genre Splitting in the wiim app

[r5yk5]

My Music library has 110 genres, which to be honest is far too many to start with.
Flac files with separate vorbis tags for each genre eg a file with a particularly large amount of genre tags

comment[131]: GENRE=Celtic
comment[132]: GENRE=Celtic Fusion
comment[133]: GENRE=Celtic New Age
comment[134]: GENRE=Downtempo
comment[135]: GENRE=Dub
comment[136]: GENRE=Electronic
comment[137]: GENRE=Folk
comment[138]: GENRE=Folk Rock
comment[139]: GENRE=International
comment[140]: GENRE=New Age
comment[141]: GENRE=Pop
comment[142]: GENRE=Rock
comment[143]: GENRE=Scottish Folk

In Home music share minim server lists each genre tag separately 110 items.



If I scan Minim Server (Advanced Mode) every combination of tags is listed meaning I have 1257 listings in the Genre section.




This makes browsing by Genre impossible/pointless. Please split genres in the home app or get the genre information from the server........

.....or is there a setting somewhere obvious I've missed?

Thanks

 

[simbun]

This makes browsing by Genre impossible/pointless. Please split genres in the home app or get the genre information from the server........

In "Advanced" mode WiiM pulls the album and track metadata from MinimServer (not from the files) in order to create the unified view; the problem is that it's already been transformed. For each track WiiM receives:

<upnp:genre>Celtic, Celtic Fusion, International</upnp:genre>
<upnp:artist>Elton John, Earth, Wind & Fire</upnp:artist>

WiiM could split the values on comma (other servers use a different delimiter) but that's a dangerous thing to do, especially for the Artist index.

"Legacy" view is much more powerful.

 

[r5yk5]

"Legacy" view is much more powerful.

Thanks for the reply.
Yes it is. I've only really fired minimserver up recently because I saw something a while back in the release notes/change log about scanning minimserver. I guess I'm missing the point of being able to scan minimserver when it's already there under browse and the implementation offers no advantages as far as I can see.
I use Emby via dlna and Asset for the preset buttons on my remote controls and am very happy with my wiim devices. This is just a suggestion to improve the wiim software (from my point of view).

 

[r5yk5]

This is fixed now

 

[simbun]

This is fixed now

I assume you're on iOS?

It's still a problem on Android, as are playlists, albums, artist index, artist search...

 

[r5yk5]

I assume you're on iOS?

It's still a problem on Android, as are playlists, albums, artist index, artist search...

Oh, you're right. It's not fixed. I was looking at the Emby dlna scan. The genres are separate there.

Unfortunately emby dlna with wiim is completely broken. It only gets recognised intermittently. The trouble is Wiim say "Well all other dlna servers work so it must be Emby", which is fair enough. And Emby say "Well it works with all other dlna clients so it must be Wiim", which is also fair enough.

I guess it'll probably remain broken until an Emby dev buys a Wiim device.

Unless, or course, I'm doing something wrong. Which, let's be honest, is far more likely.

 

[simbun]

Unfortunately emby dlna with wiim is completely broken. It only gets recognised intermittently. The trouble is Wiim say "Well all other dlna servers work so it must be Emby", which is fair enough. And Emby say "Well it works with all other dlna clients so it must be Wiim", which is also fair enough.

I've seen Jellyfin discovery problems across multiple control points, but I'm not sure about Emby.

The Android WHA has different issues:


With only one instance of Emby running two are discovered (only one seen in other control points), with one of them intermittently losing its icon and contents:


In such situations I'd normally recommend proxying Emby with BubbleUPnP Server (to improve general compatibility), but for some reason the WHA fails to discover these too.

 

[EddNog]

Random and only mildly related--I initially read the subject line as Gene-Splitting and thought we somehow were headed into a conversation about improving our own hearing abilities via genetic modification methods such as CRISPR.

Next thing you know it's us versus the augments in WWIII!

-Ed