modify library structure

[Steffen Heyne <steffen heyne gmail com>]

Hi,

I'm using rygel for some months now and so far it works fine. Thanks for 
all the work on rygel! I searched a while through all the different 
available upnp servers for linux and rygel seems to me the best one!

Now as all basic things are working, I'm looking for an easy solution 
too organize our verly large music library. The problem I have is how to 
organize very different types of music
with one media server.

For example I have my "standard" music lib for the most common songs, 
but I also have a large directory with classical music, radio 
recordings. Furthermore I also want all my family's music
organized in a central way. This means there is another "lib" with 
children music, my wife has her prefered music in a directory and so on.

The problem with having all this in one media server is that whoever 
browse the library have to scroll through hundreds of artists or albums 
to find the right one. But all the music is already good structured so I 
want this to be reflected in the main "directory" (root container?) when 
I browse to my rygel server (e.g. with bubbleupnp on android  tablet or 
phone, banshee, rhythmbox,...).

Ok, there is the "Files & Folders" entry but I want to use the tags with 
artist, album etc to browse each sub-library, basically similar to what 
is unser "music" now.

So what I would like to have is something like:

RYGEL/music/Album;All;Artist;Genre;Year
          /classical/Album;All;Artist;Genre;Year
          /kids/Album;All;Artist;Genre;Year
          /radio/Album;All;Artist;Genre;Year


or like this:


RYGEL/music/music_all/Album;All;Artist;Genre;Year
          /music/classical/Album;All;Artist;Genre;Year
       ...


Best would be if for every seperate path I give in rygel.conf there 
appears a seperate sub-library in the in the browser/tree.

My question is if there is an easy way to achive this? Or where I have 
to start  if I have to modify rygel to get this? Do I have to write an 
own root container? Is this possible at all or is the tree structure 
fixed by the upnp standard?

How does the control points/browsers work with that? I mean e.g. 
bubbleupnp (android) seems to show the full tree, rhytmbox as well, but 
banshee seems to only show the "music" entry.

I'm not a developer, but I have some programming knowledge.

Thanks for your help!

steffen