Tag display on Now Playing Screen (local streaming from NAS with Minim)

[Aquaman]

This is a bit of a special question to the knowing.

Having been a long-term user of LMS (Lyrion) I have now switched to Minim Server on QNAP. As I don't have any real Squeezeboxes any longer it is just more convenient to run on UPnP for compatability reasons.

Minim is really very versatile and lets you do things I wouldn't have thought of in my wildest dreams. Having said that it is also the least intuitive bit of software I have ever used. I have to look up everything and the user guide, though trying to be very precise, can be extremly cryptic.

Anyway, I am digging into it and have managed to implement a few tweaks. But now I've come across an issue that seems to be more related to the WiiM Home App's UPnP implementation rather than to Minim.

Minim lets you combine tags for display in the playback queue and the Now Playing Screen. For example, I have combined TITLE and GENRE to be displayed where the WHA would normally just show TITLE. I have also reversed LastName, FirstName for Artists and AlbumArtists.

Both tweaks work perfectly on other control points (mcommect and foobar mobile) but not on the WHA. It respects the tweaks in the item (song) lists but not on the playback screen for which I did the exercise in the first place.

Any ideas?

 

[simbun]

Must be an iOS bug as they display correctly on Android (having raised a ticket for the problem last year).

Title.displayFormat={$itunesadvisory^^ ^$title^$subtitle^ (^)^$trackType^ [^ Track]^}
Album.displayFormat={$originaldate^^ - ^^^ ^$album^^^$version^ (^)^$remasterdate^ [^ Remaster]^}

 

[harkpabst]

Could this in any way be related to using "advanced mode" or not?

I keep forgetting if MinimServer is one of the "supported" servers, because I don't use it.

 

[simbun]

Could this in any way be related to using "advanced mode" or not?

I keep forgetting if MinimServer is one of the "supported" servers, because I don't use it.

MinimServer is semi-supported (has many features that aren't) but the custom tag displays should be fine.

The problem on Android (likely still on iOS) was that the Now Playing screen displayed the embedded tags from the active track, rather than the metadata sent by the server. Transcoding (removing the tags) should serve as a workaround, though this is only available to licensed users.

 

[Aquaman]

Thank you @simbun
I was on the trial version for the past two weeks but bought a licence this morning. That didn‘t change anything though.

I will follow your example and also raise a ticket. Thanks again!

For what it‘s worth, the display on the Ultra also shows the embedded tags instead of the custom tags. Well, that I can live with.

 

[Aquaman]

Could this in any way be related to using "advanced mode" or not?

I keep forgetting if MinimServer is one of the "supported" servers, because I don't use it.

I don‘t think it has anything to do with the advanced mode‘ as I‘m using the legacy mode in WHA.

 

[simbun]

I was on the trial version for the past two weeks but bought a licence this morning. That didn‘t change anything though.

To force transcoding you have to enable MinimStreamer, have ffmpeg installed and apply the necessary configuration, which for me looked like:

stream.converter: /home/minimserver/ffmpeg-6.0-arm64-static/ffmpeg
stream.options: convOut=-af volume=replaygain=album
stream.transcode: flac:wav

This applies album replaygain to all flac files.

Transcoded files lack metadata, so you should now see the server metadata on the Now Playing screen and the Ultra.

 

[Aquaman]

To force transcoding you have to enable MinimStreamer, have ffmpeg installed and apply the necessary configuration, which for me looked like:

stream.converter: /home/minimserver/ffmpeg-6.0-arm64-static/ffmpeg
stream.options: convOut=-af volume=replaygain=album
stream.transcode: flac:wav

This applies album replaygain to all flac files.

Transcoded files lack metadata, so you should now see the server metadata on the Now Playing screen and the Ultra.

Thank you for this.
I‘ll look into it and might use it for the time being.
I‘ve raised a ticket non the less. Let‘s see.