Identifying performers on an album

[HardBop]

In my opinion one of the best things about the Melco/SongKong/Minimserver interface is the use of the Performer search function. This I find invaluable in finding out on which albums in my collection, in my case jazz, a supporting musician play on. My question is can the interface identify musicians on a chosen album, the equivalent of turning to the notes in a CD booklet? I suspect not, but worth the ask. Thanks.

[simoncn]

You should be able to configure MinimServer to send this information to the control point but it would be up to the control point whether and how the information is displayed. Which control point do you use?

[HardBop]

(12-06-2020 22:34)simoncn Wrote:  You should be able to configure MinimServer to send this information to the control point but it would be up to the control point whether and how the information is displayed. Which control point do you use?

I generally use the Naim App, but also use Linn Kazoo, LUMIN or MConnect if I want to.

[simoncn]

To make this show up in a consistent way on different control points, you need to add performer information to one of the standard display tags such as Title, Album, Artist or AlbumArtist. You can do this by using the tagFormat property.

To add performer information to track titles, add this to tagFormat:

Title.displayFormat={$title^$performer^; }

To add performer information to album titles, add this to tagFormat:

Album.displayFormat={$album^$performer^; }

To add performer information to artist names, add this to tagFormat:

Artist.displayFormat={$artist^$performer^; }

To add performer information to album artist names, add this to tagFormat:

AlbumArtist.displayFormat={$albumartist^$performer^; }

You might need to experiment with different combinations of these to find out which works best with your control points. If you put more than one of these settings in tagFormat, you need to separate them with commas.

[HardBop]

(13-06-2020 09:30)simoncn Wrote:  To make this show up in a consistent way on different control points, you need to add performer information to one of the standard display tags such as Title, Album, Artist or AlbumArtist. You can do this by using the tagFormat property.

To add performer information to track titles, add this to tagFormat:

Title.displayFormat={$title^$performer^; }

To add performer information to album titles, add this to tagFormat:

Album.displayFormat={$album^$performer^; }

To add performer information to artist names, add this to tagFormat:

Artist.displayFormat={$artist^$performer^; }

To add performer information to album artist names, add this to tagFormat:

AlbumArtist.displayFormat={$albumartist^$performer^; }

You might need to experiment with different combinations of these to find out which works best with your control points. If you put more than one of these settings in tagFormat, you need to separate them with commas.

Thanks for the prompt reply Simon, I'll give it a go.

[HardBop]

That's worked Simon, fantastic! I added it for "Album" and then tried adding it for "Artist" as well. However, it seemed to simply duplicate the performer details when selecting the album to play. So I reverted to just using/seeing performers for "Album".
My IT knowledge is limited, and I would never have worked out how to do this myself!
I'll relay this to my Hifi retailer (SO in York, who I believe you've spoken to in the past) as I think it's a great feature to promote for traditionalists like me who select albums to play rather than creating playlists from different albums and like to be reminded of the musicians on the album!
Thanks again.

[nicklees600]

Struggling a bit. Tried adding the Soloists tag to the Artist display, thus:

Artist.displayFormat={$artist$orchestra$conductor$Soloists}

On Rescan I get an immediate format error. Baffled!

[Alandbush]

(21-06-2020 11:49)nicklees600 Wrote:  Struggling a bit. Tried adding the Soloists tag to the Artist display, thus:

Artist.displayFormat={$artist$orchestra$conductor$Soloists}

On Rescan I get an immediate format error. Baffled!

The tags in the tag list must appear in either the indexTags or itemTags property. I suspect Soloists does not appear in either list.

[simoncn]

What exactly does the error message say?

This is often caused by not having itemTags or indexTags set correctly. Does one or other of these fields contain all of the following:

Artist
Orchestra
Conductor
Soloists

[nicklees600]

Thanks to both! Soloists was in itemTags but not indextags as well.

Now I can not only stop being baffled, but dim a well