Selecting a set of tracks

[Pastim]

(09-10-2014 22:40)simoncn Wrote:  

(08-10-2014 22:54)Pastim Wrote:  Upplay seems do this because the '>> Complete Album' is present at the next level down, so it gets included. I get the selected 'work', plus the complete album.

I have discussed this with the author of upplay and he has implemented a solution that should omit the additional '>> Complete Album' tracks.

Thanks - upplay now omits the '>> Complete Album' tracks. It is also improving in other ways, although still has some problems with duplicate detection. It is, apparently, being worked on.

Getting back to the reason for raising the thread in the first place, if you'll forgive me for repeating myself somewhat, here is where I have got to.

I thought more about using Group tags. I realised had to solve the multi-disc Album problem first (I still have no idea why minimserver insists there can be only 1 AlbumArtist, but so be it) since Groups would fail in many cases unless this was fixed. So, as reported on another thread, I created a new tag on all my tracks, just for minimserver, being a concatenated copy of all AlbumArtist tags, and made this an AlbumArtist alias in minimsever.

Once that worked I could create Groups that shouldn't fail. I worked out an algorithm for adding Group to all my classical tracks, mainly just copying work to group, but allowing for manual override as needed, and that works reasonably well. I had 3 main types of problem with this:

• I had to patch a few Albums with missing discs (due to duplication between collections) by creating empty discs.
• I also had to use manual overrides on several dozen tracks where the same work (and hence group if just a copy of work) is present on one album (the worst being a Julian Bream collection over 30 discs).
• The other hassle was recital albums where there are multiple non-consecutive tracks with parts of the same work. In such cases I arranged to add the movement name to the group.
  

It's been a lot of work, what with testing it and then backing it all up (several copies each taking many hours).

I will say that the error log from minimserver has been most helpful. I would not have resolved many of the issues without it.

I'd still like 'n items' at the lowest level, but I can see this is not viewed favourably.

So thanks for your help. I do appreciate your patience, time and effort.