![]() ![]() They always know where particular data objects live so they can display information in a number of creative ways. Roon and Qobuz can address this because they both maintain an independent database which follows their defined structure. I realize that you have a carefully-considered way in which you handle tags in your library, but this likely isn’t the same as any one else’s library. Some people are sure to populate the composer tag, but others choose to store that information in different ways. There are some accepted conventions, but none of them have migrated into de-facto standards and aren’t anything that can be relied upon for universal application. The larger issue here is that there is no standardization of metadata tagging. NB: track numbers are held in ID3 tagging as a distinct field not as part of a track title. Perhaps a dialogue between yourselves and MinimServer may help to find a solution ? As I have mentioned both Qobuz and Roon ( apparently - I don’t use Roon) now recognise this issue and have provided solutions. However many albums feature mixed composers. Piano Sonata in A major - yes but whose? Sometimes the problem is alleviated by the album title providing a single composer’s name for all of the pieces. Track titles are often (usually) just technical descriptions of form and key and which may be shared by many other pieces e.g. But I have to be in possession of the information from my pre-existing knowledge to do this.Īs I have said this becomes a huge problem in classical music. As I have composer as an index tag and if I already know that “White Christmas” was written by Irving Berlin I can go to composer and look under letter “I” for Irving Berlin. I wonder who wrote this song? There is nothing to tell me. Mosaic displays that it is by an artist called Bing Crosby and that it is an album called “White Christmas” and that there is a track called “White Christmas”. I select it and it begins to play with the title track first. I could browse or I can look under “artist” “B”. Imagine that I search for an Album by Bing Crosby. However when I ask for a field to display composer I am referring to the main playing information which only shows artist, album, track title, duration and format. Further that these articles can be displayed in alphabetical groups to be searched more easily. I understand that adding an article to an index tag allows that article to appear in the list of values that can be searched. Thanks Andrew but having read your responses both to my and and solwisesteve’s postings I wonder if we are at cross purposes? You would only see the alphabetical binning when the list had more than 50 AlbumArtists or 100 Albums In your case if you set: AlbumArtist=50,=100,Artist=50. This is totally a matter of personal preference, but when I have this option enabled I usually set the threshold to at least 100 items. It’s also worth tuning the AlphaGroup parameters so as not to display the grouping when it doesn’t make sense (not much sense in alpha grouping a list of 20 artists). You may want to set it larger or smaller depending on the composition of your library. I typically set it to 10 as that’s a good mix of getting to results quickly but having the option to narrow them when the returned list is long. If you set the value high (say 1000) then browse Genre > Jazz the result will be a list of all 500 albums rather than the ability to narrow it by selecting an artist. Keep in mind that this impacts all areas of browsing so setting it really high (such that you’re always under the threshold) will mean that you’ll always get a list of albums after making your primary selection.įor instance, say you have 500 albums with Genre=Jazz. The point of this option is to give you a list of albums when it makes sense, but to return more browsing options when the resulting list is long. ![]() A long time ago this defaulted to a reasonable number, but it would appear that has changed to 0. If the number of albums in the current branch of the tree is less than listViewAlbums then you’ll just get a list of albums, if it’s more then you’ll get additional categories to browse. What this option does is set a threshold for when MinimServer presents more browsing categories vs just a list of content. This can be tuned to your preference using listViewAlbums. you want to browse by alpha before selecting an artist). This is from the AlphaGroup option and as it’s not a default I’m assuming that this is the desired behavior (i.e. ![]()
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