Specific Tags for Compilations

[jorgemg1984]

Hi!

Most of my collection is composed of albums. For those I have album name showing year, album name, album peak, album dynamic range, bit depth sample rate. Tracks show track name, track peak, track dynamic range and track duration.

This works great for albums, but I have a few custom made compilations - on those I would like to see different tags. Album name should be just album name, and tracks should be the same as above with added audio format.

Is this possible in any way?

Thanks!

[simoncn]

You could use a tag update file (see this section) to add or remove tags from tracks in your custom compilation albums. For example, your tag update file would look something like the following:

@ALBUM=My Custom 1
@ALBUM=My Custom 2
@ALBUM=.... etc.
-DATE
-ALBUMPEAK
-ALBUMDYNAMICRANGE
-BITDEPTH
-SAMPLERATE
+AUDIOFORMAT=#AUDIOFORMAT

Your Album.displayFormat and Title.displayFormat settings would be something like this:

Album.displayFormat={$album$date$albumpeak$albumdynamicrange$bitdepth$samplerate​}
Title.displayFormat={$title$trackpeak$trackynamicrange$trackduration$audioformat​}

This is a rough sketch to show the idea. You need to adjust it to match the tag names you are using and the formatting you want to see for album and track titles.

The tag update file doesn't change the contents of your files. It adjusts the tags that MinimServer reads when it scans your library.

[jorgemg1984]

Thanks, Simon! I'll look into it and report back