Three feature requests

[Cableguy]

Simon,
First of all, a HUGE thank you for your great work with MinimServer! You share a lot of your time, knowledge and skills when making this happen, and you contribute a lot to the music loving community!

Now a few questions / requests.

1. Initial letters – I have a big album collection (around 3500 albums) and it would be good in that situation to be able to choose Artist/Album Artist/All Artists by their initial letter. Would it be possible to make that optional?

2. Compilations / Various Artists – If understand it correctly, MinimServer lists such albums under each contributing artist? It would be great if it (maybe optionally) was possible to do like either Twonky or Asset does it (i.e. Twonky lets you specify a location where all located albums are presented to the control point under Various, and Asset uses the COMPILATION tag set to =1)

3. Albums by Artist sorting – by this I mean (and this would be like a dream feature to me, as it would make the browsing more like looking in the CD shelf!) that you choose eg All Artists (or Album Artist or Artists), and then choose a new sort option “Albums by Artist” which then presents all ALBUMS sorted by the artist.

So if you own four albums (eg AC/DC – Stiff Upper Lip, Beach Boys – Pet Sounds, Beatles – Let It Be and Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers),

The control point will now show album art for these four albums in the order listed in the brackets above.

This could be enhanced further by letting the user chose Initial Letter as a third step before presenting the albums, and even further (this would be amazingly great if possible!) if shown (after Initial Letter was choosen) sorted by Date!

Do you think this would be possible?

Best regards,
Jens