Anyone using MinimServer?
Posted by: Peter W on 05 January 2014
I have recently installed MinimServer on my QNAP NAS to see what it can do. It is indeed very flexible and can do all I want a server to do, except one thing - it does not support multiple genre. I tried both FLAC and WAV files but still no luck. From what I read on various forums it seems that MinimServer is indeed not designed to support multiple genre.
Has any MinimServer user managed to make the same track appears under different genre views? With Twonky I just have to put a comma between genres.
My biggest complain on Minimserver is inability of picking up a new track on the fly and it needs restart/rescan every time I add a new track. Very annoying.
Twonky is doing this just easy.
Actually I find Twonky's auto detection of new entries not that reliable so I have it disabled and will do a manual rescan everytime I add new album to the QNAP. But sometimes whilst sitting in the listening chair I realised that I had forgotten to do the rescan, I will just do it on my iPad via the web browser. Just a few taps and job done. There's no web interface for MinimServer so I must turn on the PC to do it 
You can do a rescan from a web page on ipad with minimserver too. i use this as a backup if i forget to rescan via minimwatch when i add new tracks to my NAS. The rescan only tacks a few seconds unlike Asset.
just do http://ipadress of Minimserver:9790
Ah, that solves the problem. Thanks.