Aurender X100 with Devialet

[krass]

Will Aurender iPad app allow user to rename folders (genre) or does user have to change their thousands of titles to those lame default folder choices built into Aurender app?

neither... the iPad app is not used in anyway to @change@ the folder organisation on the Aurender. The App @uses@ the folder organisation as a 2nd row of presets within the App (first row is the traditional artist, album, genre etc). The 2nd row can be whatever you want; for example if you want it to say "Geoffs music" and "mikes music" then you can; it doesn't have to be genre, but it can, if you wish.

This 2nd row is created by the Aurender according to the sub-folders that you create on the Aurender hard drive. In the example above, just create a folder structure:

/music 1/Geoffs music
/music 1/mikes music

and you're done.
Of course you then should put Geoffs music files into one folder, and mikes music into the other.

Finding a way to do this automatically is probably the most complex part if you have thousands of tracks organized in a different way. I use a couple of cheap metadata apps on my main computer to do this for me, and I then synchronize to the Aurender hard drives automatically using Carbon Copy Cloner - an rsync derivative).

Does Aurender iPad app permit rotation, or is user locked into the horizontal view?

it's only horizontal from my experience.