Personal Rating on Music Files

Posted by: callen on 21 February 2018

Hello All,

I come from humble beginnings with a Naim DAC.... However since moving to an NDS for playing music - my most irritating complaint with the streaming "experience" is that I cannot change the personal "rating" on my music files (FLAC etc) while enjoying my music (without the laptop less toslink).

I used to use Naim DAC/Toslink/Swinsian (OSX app on Desktop) to listen to all my music and could simply change the rating. However, given the way the NDS is working uPnP (Twonky/Minim etc) - does or has anyone come up with a nice/clean solution to this? I have a really large music collection so wondered what others are doing.

Posted on: 21 February 2018 by nbpf

callen posted:
Hello All,
I come from humble beginnings with a Naim DAC.... However since moving to an NDS for playing music - my most irritating complaint with the streaming "experience" is that I cannot change the personal "rating" on my music files (FLAC etc) while enjoying my music (without the laptop less toslink).
I used to use Naim DAC/Toslink/Swinsian (OSX app on Desktop) to listen to all my music and could simply change the rating. However, given the way the NDS is working uPnP (Twonky/Minim etc) - does or has anyone come up with a nice/clean solution to this? I have a really large music collection so wondered what others are doing.

Just add a "Rating" index to you collection and populate it with values that can be ordered, for instance, 0 to 10. Then, in MinimServer, add "Rating" to the list of the indexes (indexTags) to be displayed. You likely want this list to be shown in descending order.