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My audio-system now works well with digital music. Yet, an expanding audio library brings to light some shortcomings of the software I use - or are they just whishes? My setup: A Win10 computer acting as UPnP media-server; a Chromecast Audio, the optical output of which is connected to my amplifyer; several windows notebooks and a (android) tablet to look up music and cast it to the ChromeCast. It is in this last stage, looking up music, that things begin to get clumsy (especially when compared to my old CD collection). For instance: I ask for 'albums' and get an unsightly long list, arranged (if I'm lucky) in alfabetical order. So I set out to experiment with 'genre'. That works even worse: I now get an even longer lists of individual tracks! My question: is not there a player around which is able to combine several meta-data fields in a selection? For instance, I'd like to see the option 'keep albums together' or 'only show albums', allowing me to more usefully organise my collection in 'genres'. Also, I would like to see the option for further filters to work in an 'additive' way; I mean: 'apply the filter to the selection already made'. Alternatively ( or additionally), selecting on 'tags' would be an option, but afaik 'tags' are not supported by any media-server (?). An additional problem is that I am limited to players supporting 'casting'. So far I tried VLC and BubbleUPnP under Windows; both work fine in principle, but by now present unseemly long lists, and I hardly even started adding my CD collection. For the time being, my only option seems to rely on the 'file-system', folders within folders, to organise my music. YES, that works: I can at least keep albums and/or symphonies together and make a tree with 'genres' subdivided in 'sub-genres' etc. The 'clients' I tried do offer the option to locate music this way. It is still not as accessible as my old CD collection, since I can't (in the stage of searching) see pictures and I can't arrange albums in a certain way; it's all 'alfabetical order'. I can live with that, though, but it seems a bit disappointing when I think of all the extra possibilties a database-structure of my collection, making use of all available meta-data, could offer. By the way, I am aware of the need for meta-data and the problems of these not being well standardised but that is not what I'd like to discuss here; I am just looking for a UPnP-enabled player which can use multiple meta-data fields to make a selection. Thanks for any advice, or links pointing to relevant articles. Mabel

HIFI Rose: Just saw this brand and its products. I couldn't find much in the way of reviews, but AK4499EQ based streaming DAC/Player RS150 seems very good on paper and with a reasonable price tag of around 4,000 USD. I would like to know if anyone knows anything about this particular product. Perhaps we could see it reviewed here. Detailed info: https://eng.hifirose.com/rs150