Music Client for MinimServer after cleanup with SongKong

[henning65]

Dear all

I’m trying to follow the recommended workflow (http://blog.jthink.net/2017/03/minimserver-as-your-upnp-media.html) and used MinimServer to host my music. There is also a list of control points in the USER GUIDE of Minimserver (https://minimserver.com/ug-browsing.html#Control%20points). But this list ist nor really helpful. I believe some or hardware oriented others are simply not / no longer available for iOS.

So it would be very wellcome, if you could share your experience with iOS control points / players working with MinimServer as source for your music.

I tested

• iOS app Evermusic Pro
  Best interface but with limitations:
  • no distingtion between conductor / choir / soloist … / composer
  • mismatch: wrong picture for artist
  • may not use the MinimServerMetadata but tries to search internet
• iOS app Whaale
  works but limited - for example doesn’t show folder artwork for composers; not sure I do like the hierarchical structure
• iOS app mconnectLite
  can’t get it to work
• iOS app JuP&P
  works but ugly
• iOS app MyAudioStream
• iOS app iMediaShare
  works but ugly
• iOS app foobar200
  don’t know - strange
• iOS app PlayerXtreme
  ClassicalMusik: separates album in works(?) - not possible to select an album!
• iOS app LUMIN (Hardware)
• iOS app Linn (Hardware)
• iOS app LINN Kazoo (Hardware)

non of the above convinced me - or maybe I just doesn’t know how to use…

Yours
Henning

[Bubblefish]

Dear Henning,

I have also made frustrating experiences and can add some more of that:

• mconnect (full version) on iPhone 11 works but the detection of the MinimServer is very slow, you can make and drink a cup of coffee before using the library. Besides the app always looses the connection to the library and crashes on routing songs to a renderer .
• Linn app works fine as control point, pretty fast and as expected, except you have to find an adequate working renderer … the one I use - BubbleUPnP on an old Android phone with external DAC - was found once as a room in Linn, than never more
• BubbleUPnP on the above Android woks pretty well, as a player/renderer AND control point, but it’s not iOS.

Best regards
Bubblefish