(15-07-2015 16:18)RexManning Wrote:  Hi there,

Being new here; first of all thanks a lot Simon for your great product. I have been using it for a couple of years now, without bothering about tagging and settings at all. Now I finally have some time to focus on cleaning up my 23000+ songs library...

So my new best 3 friends have become Minimserver, Mp3Tag and the Internet.

I am finally really seeing the great power you put in this product and have donated today to show this appreciation.

Quote:For my questions:
I set up most of my properties to my liking, with All Artists being the option I enjoy most.

The software and the manual are very "binary" and not so visual, so a lot of reading and re-reading is required. The things I currently can't figure out (I'll explain as if I'm browsing):

1. All Artists - (pick an artist) - # items - sorts on Title now. Could I sort this song list on Year, Album, Tracknr?

Quote:2. All Artists - (pick an artist) - # albums - shows Album Title - Year and below the Artist (or Albumartist). Can that show Album Title - All Artists (just like I have currently showing in my streamer artist / artist / artist / etc)?

Quote:Again; thanks a lot for your effort, I am already really enjoying my music database a lot more by rediscovering so many great featuring artists.

Quote:The things I currently can't figure out (I'll explain as if I'm browsing):

1. All Artists - (pick an artist) - # items - sorts on Title now. Could I sort this song list on Year, Album, Tracknr?

Quote:This feature will be available in the next update.

Quote:2. All Artists - (pick an artist) - # albums - shows Album Title - Year and below the Artist (or Albumartist). Can that show Album Title - All Artists (just like I have currently showing in my streamer artist / artist / artist / etc)?

Quote:If the album doesn't have an AlbumArtist tag and it contains multiple artists, you should get a list of all the artists for the album tracks that you have selected (not all the artists for the complete album). Is this what you are seeing? Which control point are you using?

(15-07-2015 18:25)RexManning Wrote:  I use AlbumArtist tags for all files (mostly Jazz). A lot of my albums involve various cooperating artists, for instance half of the album could be this drummer, the other half another drummer. Any album solely on the name of the lead Artist, even though there are other Artists involved, will have the lead's name as the AlbumArtist. If the album is clearly a group effort where no one is in the lead (2+ people), I tag AlbumArtist as Various Artists.

So do I understand correctly now that it will always show AlbumArtist if present, and will use All Artists if AlbumArtist is empty? Can I manipulate that behaviour in the settings, or would I have to clear all AlbumArtist fields in my database (rather not)?

Quote:At home in Europe I use a Naim streamer. Here in South America I can only use my laptop unfortunately. Where Foobar is not very easy to use as a control point to check these sort of things. So I am using my iPad with either VLC or Arcam MusicLife at the moment for this Tagging/Minimserver purpose only. Love to hear for a better alternative than foobar on my laptop though.

(15-07-2015 20:55)simoncn Wrote:  

(15-07-2015 18:25)RexManning Wrote:  I use AlbumArtist tags for all files (mostly Jazz). A lot of my albums involve various cooperating artists, for instance half of the album could be this drummer, the other half another drummer. Any album solely on the name of the lead Artist, even though there are other Artists involved, will have the lead's name as the AlbumArtist. If the album is clearly a group effort where no one is in the lead (2+ people), I tag AlbumArtist as Various Artists.

So do I understand correctly now that it will always show AlbumArtist if present, and will use All Artists if AlbumArtist is empty? Can I manipulate that behaviour in the settings, or would I have to clear all AlbumArtist fields in my database (rather not)?

Thanks for these screenshots. MinimServer is consistent because it is showing the 1+1 album with Various Artists in the # albums list in the first screenshot and also as the album at the top of the second screenshot.

The left-hand pane in the second screenshot is showing individual tracks with track artists Herbie Hancock / Wayne Shorter. To see this track information in the items/albums lists, you can select # items instead of # albums or you can open the album's contents from the # albums list.

Quote:At home in Europe I use a Naim streamer. Here in South America I can only use my laptop unfortunately. Where Foobar is not very easy to use as a control point to check these sort of things. So I am using my iPad with either VLC or Arcam MusicLife at the moment for this Tagging/Minimserver purpose only. Love to hear for a better alternative than foobar on my laptop though.


You could try Linn Kinsky 4.3.2 as a UPnP control point for Windows. Later versions dosn't work properly with non-Linn streamers.

(15-07-2015 21:45)RexManning Wrote:  Ok, so "Minimserver is consisten" means it works as designed and we don't have the option to show All Artists for an album in the All Artist - Album view? Any hope of that changing in the future??

Quote:In the meantime I will delete my AlbumArtist data from these albums again, that should do the trick. I can't remember why I opted for the AlbumArtist Various, but there must have been a good reason...which I most likely will find out again after