Carolpa wrote:

I would certainly do the opposite and keep Minimserver and dump the Plex server as Music server

That's what I currently do. Not ideal as I prefer not to use two apps, but doable. Also not so easy as - while minimserver is exceptional - there is no solid client since Glider stopped developing. As shared above, the Moment sortof does the trick and works very well with minimserver.

Carolpa wrote:

A question already asked in January this year. But please ask again, it will keep the attention.

I have piled on the minimserver both about "recently added albums" as well as "hosting artist covers". Simon - the developer - immediately replied and it seems on the development roadmap. Maybe you can chime in as well asn offer testing help?

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Great news indeed! I'll register and volunteer to beta test Minim features

I'm currently working on building a B&O PLEX profile, we will see if I manage to have something working !!!

mbolo01 wrote:

I'm currently working on building a B&O PLEX profile, we will see if I manage to have something working !!!

Bingo! I managed to build a profile for my M3 and I can now stream my ALAC tracks from PLEX to B&O M3

Sep 09, 2019 09:54:51.514 [0x7f5fe9fc5700] DEBUG - Mapped client to profile BO M3 using header User-Agent: ModernHttpClient/1.0 BangOlufsen/2.8.0.22527

... working now on fine tuning bitrate limitations and next a generic B&O profile.

If it works, I'll try to have the Moment leveraging PLEX for DLNA and Artist's image.

How do you use it? You select the music and then stream from the Plex APP to the M3? And then use the B&O app to have other B&O speakers join?

steve1977 wrote:

How do you use it? You select the music and then stream from the Plex APP to the M3? And then use the B&O app to have other B&O speakers join?

I would love to do it this way for DLNA, but unfortunately the PLEX app is not a DLNA controller (or I missed something).
With PLEX App I can only trigger Chromecast stream to B&O products, or group of products, which I do from time to time, or Airplay (which I never use).

The goal here is to configure the Moment to use PLEX DLNA for Music and Photos in order to get rid of Twonky and being left with Minimserver and PLEX only.

The way I test is to add PLEX as a DLNA server in the B&O App and stream to B&O products.

For now I'm fighting to build the profile so no transcode happens and bitrate is the one set in the music file.

mbolo01 wrote:

For now I'm fighting to build the profile so no transcode happens and bitrate is the one set in the music file.

CONCLUSION: I managed to build a B&O device profile in PLEX so I can stream lossless tracks from PLEX DLNA server to B&O products, but the initial goal is not met, BS Moment is not able to find any music on the PLEX DLNA server.

Moving now on BS Moment bigger issues: Deezer being crazy, grey MoodWheel inner ring and no more Gracenote fetching of artist's images .....

Hi mbolo1 and steve1977,

I have a Moment and WD MyPassportWireless (running Twonky) and a WD MyCloudHome (running a special version of Plex). I can see both servers in the B&O app and stream to the Moment or an M5. I can also play music from either server through the Avant Homemedia. What I can't do is get the Moment to behave (compilation albums are not kept together by twonky, plex tag data is not read properly etc). I'm curious about the minimserver or some other way to get my Moment to interact properly with my music.

I want:

1. mood wheel data harvested in Moment

2. want to use PatternPlay so that I can leave most music selection to the Moment

3. compilation albums (almost all classic albums and soundtracks and best of...) staying as an album

4. playlists so that my wife can quickly find stuff she wants to play amongst the ten of thousands of songs in my library

Can either of you give me any advice? I actually have almost two complete versions of my music library. One supposedly high quality (FLAC) to play through the B&O system, and one lower quality (mp3) to play while on the move (car, earphones, etc).

cstephen wrote:

Can either of you give me any advice?

Hi there, before providing you with my experience on these components, I would like to know how you manage your music library, i.e. what do you use to maintain the metadata of your tracks? I can see PLEX, but is it the only tool?

As an example, I use iTunes on a Mac to load my tracks in a shared area of my QNAP NAS and my DLNA servers are pointing to this shared area to do their job. Twonky, Minimserver do not enrich the metadata, PLEX does but in its own database if I understand well. When I need to provide more metadata, or correct the existing ones, I use Metadatics, Song Kong or MusicBrainz Picard depending on what suits me the best.

Hi,

I use Exact Audio Copy to load the music from my CD's to the file storage and then MP3tag to check/update the metadata

cstephen wrote:

I want:

1. mood wheel data harvested in Moment

2. want to use PatternPlay so that I can leave most music selection to the Moment

3. compilation albums (almost all classic albums and soundtracks and best of...) staying as an album

4. playlists so that my wife can quickly find stuff she wants to play amongst the ten of thousands of songs in my library

Can either of you give me any advice? I actually have almost two complete versions of my music library. One supposedly high quality (FLAC) to play through the B&O system, and one lower quality (mp3) to play while on the move (car, earphones, etc).

1. The Moment will analyze your DLNA library, fetch tracks' mood from Gacenote, assuming the tracks are recognized, and the inner ring will be populated accordingly.

2. I'm not a PatternPlay user, but I guess it gets better as you use the Moment, avoiding any reset that would clear the PatternPlay database.

3. For the Moment to recognize a compilation you have to be set the album artist name to "Various Artists". This way, all your compilation albums will be placed under de VA tile

4. The Moment does not manage playlists as such but leverages playlists exposed by the DLNA server. On my side I use Twonky with my Moment and Twonky is configured to leverage iTunes playlists. Result: iTunes playlists are available in the Moment User Interface.

Comment on PLEX (I'm repeating myself, sorry): I had to build a device profile in PLEX to allow tracks over 44100 Hz to be streamed by the PLEX DLNA server to B&O products, and I was not able to use the PLEX DLNA server running on QNAP as a DLNA source for the Moment, no tracks are being found.