UX improvements for DLNA/Home Music Share

[certainty7078]

Hi,
The vast majority of my WIIM usage with my 3 (soon to be 4) WIIM devices is streaming from mimimserver. It would be really nice if there were a couple of UX improvements in this area:

1. Access a media server directly from the Browse page, alongside other music services, rather than needing to go to Home Music Share first
2. A "tile" view option for browsing, rather than just a list view. Perhaps I'm strange, by my preferred way of choosing an album to listen to is to scroll through a view of large cover images, analogous to flipping through CDs or records.

Cheers!

 

[rccarguy]

Just use a better client front end.
Wiim app is ok but not exactly as good as others

 

[certainty7078]

@rccarguy any suggestions? Everything I've tried on iOS has been no better, or worse, than WHA.

 

[rccarguy]

material skin and lms server. brilliant

 

[certainty7078]

Unless I'm missing something, that's not a UPnP/DLNA front end, is it? I'm not looking to replace minim with lms

 

[rccarguy]

It can be with upnp bridge plugin. Just found upnp clients a bit poor, bubble upnp, etc.

 

[vdp]

Hopefully soon Plexamp (endpoint)

 

[simbun]

Unless I'm missing something, that's not a UPnP/DLNA front end, is it? I'm not looking to replace minim with lms

If you're able to install BubbleUPnP Server then you could take a look at the Linn or Lumin apps. I'm not on iOS but the Android Linn app is ok.
You'll be able to try the UI of both without BubbleUPnP Server but you won't be able to see your WiiM renderers as both apps use the OpenHome protocol.

 

[certainty7078]

If you're able to install BubbleUPnP Server then you could take a look at the Linn or Lumin apps. I'm not on iOS but the Android Linn app is ok.
You'll be able to try the UI of both without BubbleUPnP Server but you won't be able to see your WiiM renderers as both apps use the OpenHome protocol.

Thanks - it seems like a bit of overkill to get a prettier UI, but both Linn and Lumin apps are a bit nicer that WHA so I guess I"ll leave bubbleupnp server running. Ideally, I'd still like WHA to be a touch better, but this will do for now. Cheer!

 

[cottonchipper]

While Plexamp would be great, Plex is working great for me. It includes album covers so you’d be able to browse the way you mentioned.

As you can see in the picture below, you can possibly end up with different images for the same album. Not sure why but it is probably where my files didn’t include an image and Plex went out to find one for each individual track. I could clean this up but haven’t bothered to since it doesn’t affect the way I listen to music (primarily random play).
. Plex

 

[cottonchipper]

Once you select an album you get a screen like this inside the Wiimhome app while using Plex.