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New showAllDiscs option - paultaylor - 16-11-2020 11:49
Simon, thanks for adding the showAllDiscs option to MinimServer 2, I have tested it out and works very well
https://community.jthink.net/t/minimserver-can-now-show-multi-disc-albums-as-multi-disc/9594
The only problem with it is if you have 99% of albums you want to display as multi-disc but there are a couple you don't then the only round it would be to not use this option and have to use the existing method with its problems. So I wonder if a future enhancement would be to allow this to be set but to override for some albums to allow them to be displayed a single album, perhaps by reading a field such as DISPLAYCONTIGUOUS and act accordingly.
Also a questions for other users do you prefer your albums to be displayed as multi-disc or not ?
RE: New showAllDiscs option - simbun - 17-11-2020 11:03
From purely a disc numbering perspective, whilst I do keep the disc number metadata it's primarily so I can perform album lookups and verification steps (using CUETools), I don't think it's important to display, it's just a limitation of the media being used; if the media was bigger or you weren't using physical media you wouldn't have multiple discs.
The way I get MinimServer to do things my way (without resorting to adding things to the album tag or the folder name) is to create a custom tag that defines what I want treated as an album, and alias that in MinimServer to album (using .displayFormat to turn it back into what I want displayed). Depending on the logic behind what you're trying to achieve and the tool you use it could be as simple as creating a function e.g. I have a function that calculates the hash of the tags (boxtitle||album||release) or (""||"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"||"Super Deluxe Edition") vs ("The Beatles In Mono"||"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"||"") primarily to prevent merging across folders.