Serviio

I have recently started to buy FLACs from webshops, almost exclusively classical albums.

With my first few, it turns out the choices made for how the menues under the categories in Serviio are created won't work with the metadata in these commercial FLACS. Particularly with the Deutsche Grammophon albums, the Serviio menues become useless.

On some control devices, this can be partly overcome, but most mediaplayers simply accept the menues sent by serviio and display no more metadata. (Some control points show further metadata along the menues).

I really think the way Serviio uses metadata to generate menues should be configurable

Is it that the browsing categories that Serviio presents are mostly empty (i.e. Serviio hasn't been able to read the metadata from the files), or do you want additional categories. If its the first could you give ffmpeg -i of an example file where Serviio isn't able to correctly read the metadata/create an issue on bitbuket?

No, Serviio gets the data, but with all of my commercially obtained flacs of classical music the resulting menu entries all look identical on all renderers.

I'll get back with more details.

There's always a choice to be made and no choice can cover all situations. There's no good and accepted standard way to fill in the tag fields.

That is why good dlna servers must have some sort of configurability for menu generation. Preferably scriptable in a way that allows the menues to adapt to how the tags have been filled in. Or genre? One way for classical one way for symphonic works.. or something.