by Andre Gosselin » Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:29 am
I noticed this odd behavior with MM UPNP server for tracks with multiple artists separated with semi-colons in the Artist tag. The list sent to the UPNP client contains in that case the LAST artist name, not the first one. When the tag holds only one name, that name is correctly sent. I was able to confirm this behavior when using 2 different UPNP clients, namely: BubbleUPNP (Android 4) and Foorbar2000 (Win7). In my opinion, using the first one would be more appropriate, as usually this is the most prominent one (eg in classical music). Picking up the last one is IMHO a really bad choice. Another solution would be to send the full artist list (as stored in the tag, with semi-colons separating the names) : all other UPNP servers I know of work like that. This would be the best solution in my sense. Another option would be to use the Album Artist tag contents, if it is defined.
Any way to fix that ?
Also, MM server does NOT send the composer name to the UPNP client. This is different from what I saw on three other servers (TwonkyMedia, Foobar2000, Windows Media). This is a big limitation for some types of music, classical music for example. Is there a way to have MM UPNP server include that metadata in its output ?
Thanks
I noticed this odd behavior with MM UPNP server for tracks with multiple artists separated with semi-colons in the Artist tag. The list sent to the UPNP client contains in that case the LAST artist name, not the first one. When the tag holds only one name, that name is correctly sent. I was able to confirm this behavior when using 2 different UPNP clients, namely: BubbleUPNP (Android 4) and Foorbar2000 (Win7). In my opinion, using the first one would be more appropriate, as usually this is the most prominent one (eg in classical music). Picking up the last one is IMHO a really bad choice. Another solution would be to send the full artist list (as stored in the tag, with semi-colons separating the names) : all other UPNP servers I know of work like that. This would be the best solution in my sense. Another option would be to use the Album Artist tag contents, if it is defined.
Any way to fix that ?
Also, MM server does NOT send the composer name to the UPNP client. This is different from what I saw on three other servers (TwonkyMedia, Foobar2000, Windows Media). This is a big limitation for some types of music, classical music for example. Is there a way to have MM UPNP server include that metadata in its output ?
Thanks