Selecting a set of tracks

[Pastim]

(07-10-2014 21:40)simoncn Wrote:  

(07-10-2014 21:05)Pastim Wrote:  I think I've got to the core of some of my confusion, having gone away from my PC away to watch TV.

To avoid duplication you said I need 'n items' to show.

But I it seems can't have 'n items' if all items are on the same Album, so I get duplication instead for items on the same album because they have different tags (Work etc) at lower levels.

Does that make any sense?

This is probably irrelevant, and I don't know how common this is, but I have many albums with over 20 discs, dozens of works and so on.

It does make sense and there is a setting that will remove these duplicates. On the Server tab of the Properties window, set listViewAlbums to 1 and restart MinimServer. This will eliminate the additional choices for Work etc. when everything in the selection is part of a single album.

Whilst trying and failing to watch TV....

I rejected this some time ago because I sometimes want to find all duets on an opera between two people. I lose the next level of tags with this when I select the first one. Now I know I could go and set it to 2 (or whatever), but I'm not sure if that may recreate the original problem in some situations. The whole beauty of your menu structure is the ability to refine the selection in any way you want, to any level you want, some of which you may have never dreamt of before.

If I want to play all tracks in a performance of an opera with one artist and just select that one artist (having gone composer, work, conductor..), which is what I want, even bubbleupnp on my smartphone goes wobbly and finds all those tracks plus all the others in the album, and duplicates many. I believe that setting 'showExtras' to false might help since the album disappears from the next level, but I have found that useful in some situations. If I had the 'n items' for that artist, I could play exactly what I want.

As an option, for people who want the flexibility I find I seem to need to make sense of it all.