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[simoncn]

(16-08-2014 16:04)Raf Wrote:  First, I must admit I am really impressed by this product. After having licensed several other upnp server software, Minimserver is actually the first server software providing the flexibility I was looking for in classical music streaming.

Thanks very much!

Quote:I did not find it in the manual, but is there a way to "filter" tracks being added to the library? As I am reorganising tags in my classical music collection, I would like to have the library limited to tracks which have a certain (custom) tag already filled, while leaving all others physically in the map but not added to the library.

You can't stop the other files being added to the library, but you can prevent them being shown by selecting your custom tag as the first browsing operation from the top-level menu. This will give you another similar-looking menu containing only the files you want to see.

Quote:And while I am asking ... Is it possible to combine tags into one new custom tag which can be used directly in tag values merge command? Something like performerinstrument.merge={$performer1^$instrument1^ [^],$performer2^$instrument2^ [^]}. So a combination made while indexing instead of while displaying (which I understand is done at the tagformat level).

Kind regards,
Raf

This isn't possible at present. The Artist tag has an indexFormat option, which is currently implemented using special code. It might be possible to extend indexFormat to support the creation of custom "synthetic" index tags in the future.

Also, it also isn't possible currently to use tag formatting to produce a formatted value such as Performer1 [Instrument1], Performer2 [Instrument2]. The closest you can get is Performer1, Performer2 [Instrument1, Instrument2]. It might be possible to add this enhancement to the formatting language in the future.

The combination of the above enhancements should give you what you want. I will add them to my list of requested features to be considered for a future version in the medium to long term.