Question about Airplay support for WiiM Ultra by WiiM mini

[buitbyty]

The indexArtwork folder needs to be in the root of the path you specify in MinimServer (which is probably the root of your music library).
In you placed "The Rolling Stones.jpg" in this folder the image will appear in the Artist (AlbumArtist) and All Artists (Track Artist) index.

This is not working for me and I followed these instructions.

 

[simbun]

This is not working for me and I followed these instructions.

Have you applied the MinimServer license and set the following configuration:

serverOptions: indexArtwork=all

Could you let me know:

• The content directory you set in MinimServer
• The location of the indexArtwork folder

It might be easier just to send me your MinimServer configuration by going to:
http://192.168.1.20:9790 (change the IP)
Then Profiles > View

Which index are you looking at?

 

[buitbyty]

Have you applied the MinimServer license and set the following configuration:

serverOptions: indexArtwork=all

Could you let me know:

• The content directory you set in MinimServer
• The location of the indexArtwork folder

It might be easier just to send me your MinimServer configuration by going to:
http://192.168.1.20:9790 (change the IP)
Then Profiles > View

Which index are you looking at?

Changing it to index all vs auto fixed it. What index tags are you using? I feel like I’m seeing a lot when I view the server.

 

[KNVPStudios]

Isn’t that available for Mac as well?

Yes it is. I have used it reliably for many years on my Macs

 

[simbun]

What index tags are you using? I feel like I’m seeing a lot when I view the server.

You can reduce (some are mandatory) the number of indexes by removing their name from the indexTags property.
I have a lot of indexes but most are custom.

 

[buitbyty]

You can reduce (some are mandatory) the number of indexes by removing their name from the indexTags property.
I have a lot of indexes but most are custom.

I will say I don’t know how the artist images works. It doesn’t update when I change the images even after several rescans. I didn’t know I had to size them myself.

 

[simbun]

I will say I don’t know how the artist images works. It doesn’t update when I change the images even after several rescans. I didn’t know I had to size them myself.

A rescan should pick up the changes.
It sounds like the WHA is caching the images, and I think the only way to remove the cache on iOS is to offload/uninstall the app.

What do you mean about sizing the images?

 

[buitbyty]

A rescan should pick up the changes.
It sounds like the WHA is caching the images, and I think the only way to remove the cache on iOS is to offload/uninstall the app.

What do you mean about sizing the images?

The images for the artist don’t show in WHA at all. I was referring to minimserver.

As far as resizing. Meaning if I want all the images to be a square I have to edit them to a square size if they aren’t already.

 

[simbun]

I was referring to minimserver.

When you said this?

I will say I don’t know how the artist images works. It doesn’t update when I change the images even after several rescans.

I'm not sure I follow.

In DLNA/UPnP you have a server (MinimServer) a control point (WHA) and a renderer (WiiM hardware).
MinimServer being the server component only has a UI for configuration, so I don't know what you're expecting to update after a rescan.

If you've loaded artist images into ./indexArtwork they should appear in the WHA when browsing the Artist or All Artists index. Are you seeing album images associated with the root indexes e.g. next to [n] albums, [n] items?

As a test, create an image called Artist.jpg under ./indexArtwork and perform a rescan. When browsing the WHA you should see the image next to the Artist index in the root of the MinimServer browse tree - assuming the WHA isn't caching everything.
If you're not able to flush the cache of the WHA you could use mconnect for testing.

Meaning if I want all the images to be a square I have to edit them to a square size if they aren’t already.

I'm not sure I've tested this as I've made sure that all of mine are square. I would expect the control point to scale the image (not crop), which would look terrible. You could probably batch process them with ImageMagick.

 

[buitbyty]

When you said this?

I'm not sure I follow.

In DLNA/UPnP you have a server (MinimServer) a control point (WHA) and a renderer (WiiM hardware).
MinimServer being the server component only has a UI for configuration, so I don't know what you're expecting to update after a rescan.

If you've loaded artist images into ./indexArtwork they should appear in the WHA when browsing the Artist or All Artists index. Are you seeing album images associated with the root indexes e.g. next to [n] albums, [n] items?

As a test, create an image called Artist.jpg under ./indexArtwork and perform a rescan. When browsing the WHA you should see the image next to the Artist index in the root of the MinimServer browse tree - assuming the WHA isn't caching everything.
If you're not able to flush the cache of the WHA you could use mconnect for testing.


I'm not sure I've tested this as I've made sure that all of mine are square. I would expect the control point to scale the image (not crop), which would look terrible. You could probably batch process them with ImageMagick.

I’ll try that soon. Right now I’m trying to figure out why all of a sudden all the CDs I’m ripping in dbpoweramp are showing not in accuraterip. These are popular older CDs too by artist like Beyonce and Brian McKnight.

 

[slartibartfast]

I’ll try that soon. Right now I’m trying to figure out why all of a sudden all the CDs I’m ripping in dbpoweramp are showing not in accuraterip. These are popular older CDs too by artist like Beyonce and Brian McKnight.

Maybe Brian McKnight is better known in the US. I've never heard of him. I've never heard of a lot of artists though

 

[simbun]

Right now I’m trying to figure out why all of a sudden all the CDs I’m ripping in dbpoweramp are showing not in accuraterip.

I tried to verify one a second ago and the AccurateRip service was down.

EDIT: Just tried again and it's now up.

 

[buitbyty]

When you said this?

I'm not sure I follow.

In DLNA/UPnP you have a server (MinimServer) a control point (WHA) and a renderer (WiiM hardware).
MinimServer being the server component only has a UI for configuration, so I don't know what you're expecting to update after a rescan.

If you've loaded artist images into ./indexArtwork they should appear in the WHA when browsing the Artist or All Artists index. Are you seeing album images associated with the root indexes e.g. next to [n] albums, [n] items?

As a test, create an image called Artist.jpg under ./indexArtwork and perform a rescan. When browsing the WHA you should see the image next to the Artist index in the root of the MinimServer browse tree - assuming the WHA isn't caching everything.
If you're not able to flush the cache of the WHA you could use mconnect for testing.


I'm not sure I've tested this as I've made sure that all of mine are square. I would expect the control point to scale the image (not crop), which would look terrible. You could probably batch process them with ImageMagick.

Now that I got this fixed.

Yes. The minimserver does appear in WHA app. I originally had some images of the artist that I was ripping the songs of and they did appear. However they were the wrong size images so I went in to make them all square but the original sized images would show. The images would not update. Also the composer images that I uploaded were showing the artist image vs let’s say the producer.

 

[Burnside]

I’ll try that soon. Right now I’m trying to figure out why all of a sudden all the CDs I’m ripping in dbpoweramp are showing not in accuraterip. These are popular older CDs too by artist like Beyonce and Brian McKnight.

Re accuraterip, see this post. I wouldn’t be overly concerned about it - some of mine rip and are in accuraterip and others aren’t but I couldn’t tell them apart.

What does "Not in Accuraterip" mean? - dBpoweramp Forum

I have owned dBpoweramp for more than 3 years and this is the first time I use it to rip my first CD. I chose MP3 / Bitrate / 320kbps / Slowest While ripping, I see every song is saying "not in accuraterip" what does that mean? shall I be concerned about the quality?

forum.dbpoweramp.com

 

[simbun]

I originally had some images of the artist that I was ripping the songs of and they did appear. However they were the wrong size images so I went in to make them all square but the original sized images would show.

Probably the caching issue.

Also the composer images that I uploaded were showing the artist image vs let’s say the producer.

Images placed in the root of ./indexArtwork will match to any item in the browsing hierarchy (any value from any index). If you have an artist and producer with the same name you can place the images in separate folders and MinimServer will use the appropriate one e.g.

./indexArtwork/Artist/name.jpg
./indexArtwork/Producer/name.jpg

The folder name should reflect the tag being used.

MinimServer will pick the best match, so you could leave artist images in the root and put producer images in ./indexArtwork/Producer.

 

[buitbyty]

Probably the caching issue.


Images placed in the root of ./indexArtwork will match to any item in the browsing hierarchy (any value from any index). If you have an artist and producer with the same name you can place the images in separate folders and MinimServer will use the appropriate one e.g.

./indexArtwork/Artist/name.jpg
./indexArtwork/Producer/name.jpg

The folder name should reflect the tag being used.

MinimServer will pick the best match, so you could leave artist images in the root and put producer images in ./indexArtwork/Producer.

Does the underwork folder go in the hard drive mail folder or the folder that I have named “music library” that contains all the artist and album folders

 

[simbun]

Does the underwork folder go in the hard drive mail folder or the folder that I have named “music library” that contains all the artist and album folders

The indexArtwork folder needs to be in the root of the path you specified in MinimServer (ContentDir).

 

[buitbyty]

The indexArtwork folder needs to be in the root of the path you specified in MinimServer (ContentDir).

my path for my music is volumes/lacie/MusicLibrary

 

[simbun]

my path for my music is volumes/lacie/MusicLibrary

If that's the path you specified in MinimServer then your images will go in: /volumes/lacie/MusicLibrary/indexArtwork/

 

[buitbyty]

If that's the path you specified in MinimServer then your images will go in: /volumes/lacie/MusicLibrary/indexArtwork/

Thank you.