MinimServer and MinimWatch properties
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Using properties
Properties reference
Using properties
MinimServer and MinimWatch provide a number of properties for customizing various aspects of its behaviour. If you're running MinimServer or MinimWatch in a graphical desktop environment, you can view and update these properties from the properties dialog pages which are displayed by clicking on the Properties selection from the minim icon.
The properties are displayed as a tabbed dialog with separate tabs for Server properties, Advanced properties and System properties. The tabbed dialog also contains tabs for Packages and Modules, which are used by the package management system. For more information about these tabs, see the Package management section.
If you are using the MinimServer or MinimWatch console interface,
you can view and update all these properties by using the
props and prop commands. See the
Controlling MinimServer using console commands section
for details.
Updates to the .autoUpdate,
.logFile, .logLevel, .logPrefix, ohnet.debug, serverOptions,
showExtras and .updateReminder properties are effective immediately.
Updates to other MinimServer properties will take effect when the media server is next restarted.
Properties reference
The following properties are available:
aliasTags
| A comma-separated list of tag names that will be aliased to other tag names. See the Tag aliasing section for details. |
alphaGroup
|
A comma-separated list of index tag names that will be grouped alphabetically.
For each name in this list, you can optionally add the suffix '=size'
to specify a minimum index list size for grouping to be applied.
See the Alphabetical grouping section for details.
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.autoUpdate
|
If set to true, MinimServer or MinimWatch automatically
checks for and installs the latest update when MinimServer or MinimWatch is launched or relaunched.
See the Automatic updates section for details.
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contentDir
| The directories (folders) containing audio files. See the Reading audio files section for details. |
delayStart
| A time in seconds to delay MinimServer or MinimWatch during its startup phase. See the Delaying startup section for details. |
displayName
| The name to be displayed for this server by UPnP control points. It's also used by MinimWatch to identify different running MinimServer instances. See the Multiple MinimServer instances section for details. |
excludePattern
| A comma-separated list of one or more file-matching patterns. A file or folder is excluded from scanning if its name matches any of the patterns in the list. See the File scanning section for details. |
http.port
| The port number to be used by MinimServer's HTTP server. See the HTTP server port section for details. |
indexTags
| A comma-separated list of tag names that will be indexed and displayed by MinimServer. See the Index tag selection section for details. |
itemTags
| A comma-separated list of tag names that will be read from audio files without being indexed. See the Additional item tags section for details. |
listViewAlbums
| A number that controls whether the current browsing selection is shown as a list view or a tag view. See the List view and tag view section for details. |
.logFile
|
The file that MinimServer or MinimWatch will use to write its log information, specified as
a filename or a fully qualified filesystem path. To suppress
disk logging, you can specify the single character '-'.
See the MinimServer logging
and MinimWatch logging sections for details.
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.logLevel
| The logging level for MinimServer or MinimWatch log messages. See the MinimServer logging and MinimWatch logging sections for details. When using the MinimServer or MinimWatch graphical interface, this setting is shown in the "Logging level" drop-down menu in the MinimServer or MinimWatch log window and doesn't appear in the Properties window. |
.logPrefix
| An optional prefix for MinimServer or MinimWatch log messages. See the MinimServer logging and MinimWatch logging sections for details. |
mergeFolderAlbums
|
If set to true, MinimServer automatically merges album
tracks from different folders.
See the Albums and folders section for details.
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ohnet.debug
| The setting to be used for ohNet debug logging. See the ohNet debug logging section for details. |
ohnet.port
| The port number to be used by ohNet for UPnP service communications. See the UPnP service port section for details. |
ohnet.subnet
| The subnet to be used by ohNet for UPnP service communications. See the UPnP subnet section for details. |
serverOptions
| A comma-separated list of option settings for controlling various aspects of MinimServer operation. See the Server options section for details. |
showExtras
|
If set to false, MinimServer doesn't display selection choices prefixed by '>>'. These
choices may not work with some control points. See the
Hide Contents choice section for details.
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startupScan
|
If set to true (the default), MinimServer does a complete library scan
when it is started. If set to full, this scan ignores any
existing cache files. If set to false, no library scan is done
when MinimServer is started.
See the Reading audio files section for details.
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tagCustom
| (Not available in MinimServer 2) A comma-separated list of settings for special formatting of XML data sent to the control point. See the Custom tag settings (MinimServer 0.8) section for details. |
tagFormat
| A comma-separated list of settings for custom formatting of index values and control point display values. See the Tag formatting section for details. |
tagOptions
| A comma-separated list of options for special handling of audio file tags. See the Tag options section for details. |
tagUpdate
| The name of a tag update file to be used when MinimServer starts. See the Tag update section for details. |
tagValue
| A comma-separated list of option settings for special handling of audio file tag values. See the Tag values section for details. |
.updateReminder
| The number of days that MinimServer or MinimWatch should wait before showing a prompt to remind you that an update is available and hasn't yet been applied. See the Online updates section for details. |
upnpCustom
| (Only available in MinimServer 2) A comma-separated list of settings for special formatting of XML data sent to the control point. See the Custom UPnP settings section for details. |
writeAllTags
| The name of a file into which MinimServer will write a sorted list of all tag names and values from the audio files in your library. See the All tags summary section for details. |
writeTagChanges
| The name of a file into which MinimServer will write a list of all tag changes resulting from instructions in the tag update file. See the Tag update section for details. |