User Experience: Browse
Another key user experience is locating the files to stream. To provide a great user experience, a DMC device should enable the user to browse libraries, based on album art, video thumbnails, or image thumbnails. The visual hierarchy allows consumers to quickly navigate and find the files they are looking for.
In addition to displaying album art and thumbnails to the user, a DMC device should expose metadata for each media item. This should include the metadata that is mentioned in the playback experience and additional Microsoft specific metadata:
microsoft:artistAlbumArtist
microsoft:artistConductor
microsoft:artistPerformer
microsoft:authorComposer
microsoft:authorOriginalLyricist
microsoft:authorWriter
microsoft:userRatingInStars
A DMC should also let the user change the userRatingsInStars. When the user makes a change to this field, the DMC should push this change back to the DMS by using the UPnP UpdateObject. This lets users change queries that are based on their preferences.
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