What tags does MinimServer support?

[simoncn]

(15-11-2012 06:47)audiomuze Wrote:  I've not yet configured and run MinimServer but have started reading the documentation. I'm not clear on what tags MinimServer will reference in compiling your library for presentation and internal logic purposes. Is there a single reference that lists all tags that MinimServer supports?

MinimServer can support any tag name. There's a configuration property named indexTags that you can use to customize the list of tag names that MinimServer will scan and index.

Quote:Also, almost all of my albums (FLAC based) have tag entries that contain multiple entries for a number of tags, as well as custom tags I'd like to be able to leverage. As an example, a typical track's tags may look like this:
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albumartist=Lindsey Buckingham
album=Seeds We Sow
artist=Lindsey Buckingham
compilation=0
composer=Keith Richards
composer=Mick Jagger
date=September 6, 2011
genre=Pop/Rock
mood=Ambitious\\Atmospheric\\Bittersweet\\Complex\\Confident\\Dreamy\\Elegant\\E​nergetic\\Enigmatic\\Exciting\\Intimate\\Literate\\Lively\\Lush\\Optimistic\\Poi​gnant\\Refined\\Rousing\\Sophisticated\\Summery
rating=4
review=Since resuming his solo recording career with 2006's Under the Skin... <snip>
style=Contemporary Singer/Songwriter\\Alternative Singer/Songwriter\\Adult Alternative Pop/Rock\\Alternative/Indie Rock\\Contemporary Pop/Rock
theme=Everyday Life\\Regret\\Relationships\\Relaxation\\Reminiscing\\Small Gathering
title=She Smiled Sweetly
tracknumber=11
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I gather from the documentation that MinimServer does not handle multiple entries for a given tag e.g. the composer tags in the above example and that the tag should be written as a single delimited entry for MinimServer to use it i.e.: composer=Keith Richards\\Mick Jagger

There might be a bit of terminology confusion here. MinimServer does handle multiple tags with the same name, so

composer=Keith Richards
composer=Mick Jagger

will be handled correctly as two different composers for the same track.

Regarding the \\ separator, Mp3tag uses this in its user interface to represent multiple separate tags. So in the Mp3tag user interface, you would put 'Keith Richards\\Mick Jagger' in the Composer entry field to achieve the above result.

What's not clear to me is whether the entries in your above example that contain \\ actually have the \\ characters inside the FLAC/Vorbis tag value. If so, MinimServer won't handle them as you're expecting. If the \\ characters aren't physically present, but are being used as a visual indication of multiple separate tag values (as with Mp3tag), MinimServer will handle this OK.

Quote:Based on the tagging scheme above:

• would MinimServer be able to leverage style, mood and theme metadata
• how would it handle the date entry given it's not simply stated as "2011"
• how does it distinguish between album artists and compilations (in my tagging scheme compilations have a compilation=1 tag whereas artist albums may or may not have a compilation=0 tag. Artist albums may include multiple artists in a single track entry, but where this is the case there is always an 'albumartist' tag. Compilations on the other hand will have one or more artist entries for each track and no "albumartist" tag
  

MinimServer will scan and index the style, mood and theme tags as long as you add these to the indexTags property.

MinimServer expects dates to be in the form "yyyy" or ''yyyy-mm-dd", or something similar with yyyy as the first four characters. Is there any documentation that describes the standard format options for this tag value?

MinimServer doesn't do anything with the 'compilation' tag (though you can add it to indexTags if you wish). You can achieve the same effect by using an 'albumartist' tag. For example, you could set 'albumartist' to 'Compilation' for these albums. Can you explain the benefits of having a separate tag to identify compilation albums?