Mezzmo is head and shoulders above anything else I've seen on the market for music. There is, however one problem for using it as a classical music DLNA server.

Remember that when you are navigating a DLNA server, the views you get are absolutely and only the views being offered by the server. The client is entirely passive.


There are two problems:

1. The views server by Mezzmo allow navigation by Album, Artist etc, but not by Composer. The first are fine for most kinds of music, but you absolutely have to have navigation by Composer for Classical Music, and even for Jazz. This is so, even though the music (whether FLAC or MP3 files in my case) has Composer tags included.

By comparison Twonky Server (which is poorer in nearly every other respect) gives a Composer view. And of course, locally indexing media players such as Windows Media Player and Winamp give a Composer view as well. And you get the same thing with Sonos, and even with the cheap apps (e.g. Flacplayer) for music stored on iPhone and Android.

2. The second problem is that after navigating the top level (e.g. Artist), you get a complete listing of all artists. If you have a music collection of any large size this is difficult to navigate. The method offered elsewhere is an alphabet index (A, B, C ...). When you select a letter, you are then given a view of all items starting with that letter.

Love the product, but it simply isn't useful for classical or jazz collections at this stage.

Hope this can be fixed!