[Fwd: Re: Sony BDS580 client]

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

meh, forgot the list

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Jens Georg <mail jensge org>
To: John Haxby <jch thehaxbys co uk>
Subject: Re: Sony BDS580 client
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 10:07:24 +0200

> It's not just hardware vendors.  vlc on the Mac displays tracks in
> alphabetical order until it has played them all and then resets them
> according to the (flac) metadata.   The iOS 8player (Lite) also displays
> the tracks in alphabetical order.

IMO the UPnP implementation in VLC is one of the worst I've seen. Show
no feedback to the user until done _recursively browsing_ a server, not
even trying to do a search? And apparently not trusting the server's
meta-data at all?

> 
> It would be nice to have sorting metadata so that "Mike Oldfield" can be
> sorted as "Oldfield, Mike" as well as track ordering within albums, but
> now I'm aware of that I might be able to do something about it.

Yes, that would be nice, but that's out of UPnP scope. Like how they
forgot multi-disc albums.