Selecting a set of tracks

[simoncn]

(07-10-2014 20:34)Pastim Wrote:  foobar2000 is driving me nuts, since I never know whether it play something or not.

This isn't caused by the type of container. Unlike nearly all other control points, foobar only adds the immediate contents of the selected container and doesn't look in any subcontainers to see if they have contents. This is why selecting "n items" is working for you. If you were using the Group tag, it wouldn't be working because grouped items are in subcontainers of "n items" and therefore wouldn't be selected.

Another problem with using the "n items" container for this purpose is its alphabetical sort order. This is unlikely to be what most users want when listening to music. At a minimum, all tracks from the same album should appear together and be sorted in order of track number.

To solve these problems when using foobar, it would be necessary to add a new subcontainer named something like ">> Show Tracks". Because of the problem of duplicates with control points that recursively browse subcontainers, the ">> Show Tracks" container would need to be part of showExtras and work in the same way as other showExtras selections with an extra level of indirection to the actual track list to protect against unwanted duplicates.

This would be a major change to MinimServer and I don't think it's a good idea to add this in order to solve a problem that is specific to foobar. For almost all other control points, selecting either the container itself or its "n albums" or "n items" subcontainer already provides a list of the container's complete contents without duplicates. (Note that selecting "n albums" is preferable to selecting "n items" because it uses a more natural sort order for listening to music.) In the case of containers that contain a single album with additional tag choices, the single album can be selected.