Group VS Work

[Gdg]

Hello everybody.

I have some boxset of jazz CD where a single CD fits two or more albums of the same Artist.
Using the "Group" tag (see here) and browsing "By folder" I can correctly see the boxset spanned into albums and inside each album, I find its own tracks.
Very very happy with this, but...

But I'm a JPLAY user, too, and JPLAY wants to see the "Work" tag, instead of the "Group" one, to split a CD into albums.
Now, following the relevant instruction on the JPLAY user giude page (here), I aliased the Group tag to Work, like this:
. aliasTags= Group:Work
then
. itemTags= Album,TrackNumber,Title,Work

Well... now it works fine with JPLAY, but not anymore with the native "By folder" mimimServer browsing...

I know, reason is:
"Any tags that are aliased in this way are no longer available by their original (source) names" (here)

So: any work around to show "Work" to JPLAY and "Group" to MinimServer, without cloning the Group tag to a Work tag?

I tried adding to "tagupdate.txt" the following:
@GROUP=GROUP
+WORK=GROUP

but no luck...

Many thanks for your help.

Giovanni, from Italy

[simoncn]

I am not sure why you don't want to clone the Group tag to a Work tag. This seems like the simplest solution. To do this, set the tagValue property to this:

Work.replace={Group}

This replaces any existing Work tag value. If you want to add the Group value without losing the original Work value (if any), use this:

Work.merge={Group}

[Gdg]

(15-08-2025 12:39)simoncn Wrote:  Work.replace={Group}

that works, Simon, thank you very much.


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with "... cloning the Group tag to a Work tag"
I meant: doing a "brutal" copy of the content of the Group tag of a track and paste it to the empty Work tag of the same track.

[Gdg]

... and the Group tag works nicely even with album's tracks spanned on differents CD,
both minimServer's "By folder" browsing (fig.1)
   

or JPLAY's search (fig.2).
   

Thank you, Simon, you really did a great job!

Giovanni, from Italy