So I broke down and bought jremote. It is very nice! It takes a little getting used to, but so what.
I am finding, though, that I need to be much more specific in my album name tagging since JRemote (nor J River, but its not as much an issue on the desktop) does not show multiple albums and album covers of the same name. It combines them (i.e I pick Cosmos Factory and 22 songs show up, numbered 1,1,2,2,3,3 and so on). I have many DSD and PCM albums that have the same name, and in my other music server environments, i.e. either Apple Remote App or mPad (for Linux MPD) they show up at least as separate album covers.
I have had decent luck with some simple expression language command strings to do (DSF especially) tag cleaning up...removing n number of characters from track names, fixing capitalization (DSD extraction from ISOs often brings over lots of capitalized titles..argh). So...I thought...I guess I can make a simple J River command to append "(DSD)" to the end of all my DSF album names, thereby easily distinguishing them from their redbook counterparts (and I'd do the same for their 24 bit counterparts). I can easily first filter them by format or sample rate, so how hard can this be. Wrong! I can not find an expression that will help. Any ideas out there, short of re-tagging each and every DSF album (about 600 of them)? Thanks, Ted