#Minimserver album image pdf

If you do intend to look at MinimServer, it’s not the most straight-forward product to configure, so take your time and ask questions on the forum as the community is outstanding. MinimServer via BubbleUPnP can serve either, I have no idea about slimserver which I’ve got to admit I have absolutely no experience of, yet. Once you’ve got the images in good shape the choice of HTML/PDF is down to you. I only recently upgraded to a Pi 4 (mainly because I had another use for the old Pi) and have for many years been running off a Pi 3b serving approximately 1300 albums, and it’s quick to index and has a really low footprint, which is why I went for it in the first place over the behemoth that is Plex or something similar! ( I see that MinimServer 2 runs on a Pi) Perhaps html or some kind of javascript library with jpgs / pngs might be a better, non proprietary alternative…Īnyway, thanks for the link to minimserver… I will have a look. indexArtworkall MinimServer will look for custom images, and where none exist will use album images. It may not handle pdfs very well or at all. indexArtworkauto Album images that exist below that index selection will be used as the custom image for the index value. I’m thinking about a ‘low footprint’ music player like the slimserver / logitech music system that runs on a raspberry Pi (4).

#Minimserver album image pdf

on one hand, there are already examples of booklets and pdf is supported by many tools as your example proves.

I’m in two minds if I like the idea of pdfs. As the example of the pdf booklet for Bruce Springsteen shows, some people have done the work… (I did my first mass rip back in 2008 and never really been happy with some of it). As I have about 900 cds to deal with, I was keen to do avoid the work if someone else already has done it! or have a plan so I can do the work once. Magick identify -format '%w %h' 'pg1.jpg'`Īgreed, relatively straightforward and I’m not adverse to doing the work.

If you want to be really clever you can use it to pull the attributes of the images to determine what to do next (although you’ll still not know if the first page is the cover or the inside page): # retrieve the width and height of the image If you’re producing these booklets from your own scans then you’ll probably be able to settle on a process that works across the board, but if from another source then you’re probably going to have to tailor it. Magick pg1.jpg -quality 80 -crop 50%x100% out.jpgĭel pg1.jpg & rename out-1.jpg pg1.jpg & rename out-0.jpg pg5.jpg I guess it depends what you mean by straightforward: # split first image into 2, creating out-0.jpg, out-1.jpg I don’t think I said anywhere that you just point it at the directory and it works out everything for you But that is on the assumption that while the Object ID’s may change, the actual playable file URLs are unlikely to.Unfortunately, some of the scans of the pages are not of consecutive pages, (first one is pages 1 and 8) so its not straightforward to combine those scans,

We do some small trickery to make this work with UPnP ‘albums’, which seems to work ok. For example, MinimServer, which is one of the most popular server products, can change object identifiers any time new music is added.

That’s a reasonably fair assumption, but is not set in stone. This could work, however we’re making an assumption that the ObjectID will not change. From the control point (BubbleUPnP) I was hoping that once I selected AlbumArtist as the index selection, and then subsequently selected an artist Id see the artist image at the top of the screen with the available album selections below (a little like the album view), but currently its just for the index entries. So, we could have a link on the Home Screen for “what is inside the folder where ObjectID = ‘albums’”. (using random images, custom images or both) and it is possible that some capability to display artist images might be supported in a future version of MinimServer.

User taps on Music, the app then requests “what can I see inside the Music folder?”, the server returns “Albums, Artists, Genres” etc…Įach of those ‘subfolders’ has an ObjectID, which we can reference. When displaying a disc of a multidisc album, MinimServer looks for artwork using the following search order.

App asks “what can I see at the root level of the server?”, the server returns “Video, Music, Photos”, or something similar.

To give a little bit of insight into how UPnP navigation works, heres a general overview of how all UPnP apps browse data. This is potentially very tricky with UPnP. I would really like to add the “by album” option directly to the homescreen of the musiclife app.