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Clever ‘Profiles’ also allow the browse experience to be changed based on the main types of music searches – rock and pop, jazz and classical etc., to fully exploit the full extent of the metadata available from SongKong, regardless of the player or control point app.

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The Melco Intelligent Music Library system automatically senses whether each CD or download is classical or not and returns searches based on works (if necessary) rather than albums, unless albums were requested. Conventionally, browsing for a whole album is easy but finding the constituent elements or works becomes very difficult without Melco Intelligent Music Library multi-disc sets or compilations, for example, fail to browse correctly if treated as albums,' Melco details. Many CDs or sets of imported music, especially classical, are not really ‘albums’ but collections of songs or works. 'By carefully tuning SongKong to deliver precisely the metadata set that MinimServer requires to deliver the search functionality, Melco has made it possible to break away from the notion of an ‘album’. The integration of MinimServer, SongKong and Melco's Intelligent Music Library, enables MinimServer to offer browsing based on the consistent metadata set from the SongKong software, in a format transparent to the user. As they explain, 'the conventional separation of metadata structure and UPnP server is the root cause of most problems that users experience trying to find music on their servers.' As the Japanese company explains, the solution implements a Metadata Engine (SongKong for Melco) and UPnP Server (MinimServer with Intelligent Browsing), each precisely tailored to the needs of the other, in order that they operate as a whole. Melco's Intelligent Music Library enables simple but powerful music search and selection for playback on any network music player or connected USB DAC.

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The solution is available for all Melco digital music libraries, including the new N10 and N100 compact-chassis models, and will also be available as a firmware update for existing Melco users. We've been to Pembrokeshire, the Lake District, Northumberland and Normandy, and I was very lucky to get a ticket for the memorable 'Super Saturday' in the Olympic Stadium.Together, MinimServer, SongKong and Melco have integrated the full functionality of a powerful metadata engine to a pre-configured versatile UPnP server, resulting in accurate and easy browse, search and play features for large collections and all genres of music. There has been a bit of time for other things this year as well as working on MinimServer.

The world of digital audio is heading rapidly in this direction, and I'm hoping to bring a few innovations to the network streaming party! The result will be launched in the next month or two, and will extend MinimServer by providing support for network streaming as well as streaming from a local server.

The combination should provide some interesting real-world uses for this audio streaming technology that I developed in JStreamer. Looking forward to 2013, I've spent the last few weeks integrating my earlier JStreamer work with MinimServer.

#Minimserver features code

I haven't made the code open source, mainly because I'm enjoying having the opportunity to make MinimServer what I think it should be, without the inevitable compromises that would arise from having multiple developers with different perspectives on how things should be done. I've used an open development model, with lots of discussion about what new features should be added and how they should be implemented. This has kept me busier than I could ever have imagined, doing everything from requirements analysis, architecture, design, development, test, build, webmaster, user support and bug fixing.

Based on downloads and user feedback (forum posts), MinimServer probably has a few hundred active users now. I think that number of users was reached in the first few months, though it's hard to measure how many active users there are. I decided to set a goal of having at least 100 users to consider MinimServer as a success and worth continuing, and I had prepared myself for not achieving that goal and moving on to other things. After my previous experience with JStreamer, I didn't set my expectations too high. I'd been working on it for a few months, and I wanted to see if it would be as interesting and useful to other people as it was to me. In January, I released the first MinimServer beta. It's almost the end of 2012, and I couldn't let it pass as a blog-free year!