Hi Simon. My collection is structured based on folders, subfolders, sub-subfolders and so forth. All folders contain music files with “Year” tag. Also the ones that define categories such as decade, film series, director, actor etc. (those folders only contain a cover art and 1 short music file with a year tag). I use those year tags to order the folders. Please see the attachment I sent by email. But in the Bubble UPnP app all folders are ordered alphabetically. I did try some programming lines in the MinimServer Properties tab (indexTags etc.) , but without the desired result. Can you please show me how?
In future, please attach screenshots to your post instead of sending them by email. This enables other readers of the forum to see them and follow the discussion. You can find instructions for attaching a file to a post in
this post. I have attached your screenshot to this reply.
In MinimServer, you can change the sort order of items within folders under [folder view] by setting the folder.sortTags option of the tagOptions property. For details, see
this section.
You can't change the sort order of folders using this option because folders don't have tags, only files within folders. How are you using Year tags of files within folders to change the order of folders in the screenshot you sent? What software has produced this screenshot?
Correct Simon, folders don’t have tags. The tags are set in the music files in the folder.
Example:
Folder Level 1 – Soundtrack Category
Soundtrack Category 1 > folder level 1 contains:
1 cover art jpg. > picture of a category (example film director).
1 short music mp3 file with a year tag.
Soundtrack Category 2 > folder level 1 contains:
1 cover art jpg. > picture of a category (example film director).
1 short music mp3 file with a year tag.
Purpose is to display the category (film director) picture in the browser/app and to chronologically mark this folder. Result in level 1 is a chronologically ordered list of Soundtrack Categories displayed by the category pictures. See earlier attachment.
Folder Level 2 (under Level 1, next to the category cover art and short music file of Level 1) – Soundtracks
Soundtrack 1 > folder level 2 contains:
1 cover art jpg. > picture of a soundtrack.
20 music files of the soundtrack all with the year tag.
Soundtrack 2 > folder Level 2 contains:
1 cover art jpg. > picture of a soundtrack.
20 music files of the soundtrack all with the year tag.
Purpose is to display the soundtrack cover in the browser/app and to chronologically mark this folder. Result in level 2 is a chronologically ordered list of Soundtracks displayed by the soundtrack covers. The collection exists of up to 6-8 folder levels.
The screenshot I sent is produced from the Subsonic web browser. You can see the Soundtrack Categories with year tags (set in music files in the folder), chronologically ordered.
By the way, if I remember correctly the forum allows only attachments under 1 Kb, so hard to attach anything. But maybe I am wrong about the size.
(20-08-2023 07:48)Mark Ketelaars Wrote: [ -> ]By the way, if I remember correctly the forum allows only attachments under 1 Kb, so hard to attach anything. But maybe I am wrong about the size.
The forum software accepts much larger images than that, although it's generally a good idea to make them as small (in file size) as possible.
With respect to your setup it's a very unique "solution" subsonic has come up with for sorting folders, one which I can't imagine is supported by any other software, so if you want to browse by folder whilst having a custom sort order the only real option would be to add a sequential number to the beginning of each folder name e.g. '01 - Soundtracks'.
The maximum size of an attachment varies depending on the file extension of the attachment. For .jpg and .png images, it is 500 kb.
The solution proposed by simbun can be refined slightly. MinimServer implements numeric sorting, so your folder names can start with 1, 2, ... 9, 10, ... instead of 01, 02, ... 09, 10, ...
Thanks Simon. I am ok with the numbering solution for the Soundtrack Categories.
But are you saying that I cannot chronologically order for example 10 albums (1 folder (lowest folder level) per album with 1 cover art file and x music files with the year tag) under a Composer folder? For the albums I am not looking for a "custom order" but just a chronological one.
By the way, the solution I am using is my own work around to get to my desired collection structure, not specifically Subsonic's. In Subsonic I can set "sort albums by year".
MinimServer has a large number of flexible and powerful configuration and customisation options for tag-based browsing, including the ability to sort album lists by any tag or combination of tags. MinimServer also supports folder-based browsing but with very limited configurability. Have you considered using tag-based browsing to take advantage of the additional configurabilty this would provide?
Thanks Simon. Let me dig in a bit in the tag-based browsing options.