(Sub)Folder View

[Skywatcher]

Hello Simon,

I've just re-read the user guide in search for a way of "tweaking" Folder View a bit but didn't come across any evident way of doing it, so I'm suggesting a feature that, if it is of easy implementation to you, I'd rather appreciate seeing it as an option in a future version of MinimServer.

What I'd like to be able to do was to have a Folder View option that would group all the content of the contentDirs. That is to say, my current folder structure is something like:

music/ambient/Artist1/Album/Tracks
music/ambient/Artist2/Album/Tracks
music/classical/Artist3/Album/tracks
music/rock/Artist4/Album/tracks
music/rock/Artist5/Album/tracks

And what I'd like to do was to either:
a) add to contentDir music/ambient, music/classical and music/rock
b) add to contentDir music/ with a "jump 1 level down" definition

so that the Folder View display was:
Artist1/...
Artist2/...
Artist3/...
Artist4/...
Artist5/...

Similar to the Artists view using when using tag based listing.

Your logical question will probably be why not just use the Artists view? Well, my tags are still far from properly curated, but my folder structure is precisely as I'd like to navigate through my collection. I started ripping my collection before DLNA/UPnP was common so tagging wasn't my main concern, and a good part of my collection (classical specially) is still a good mess when it comes to tag consistency, hence why I mostly always navigate by folder view, which was actually one of the factors that made me change to minimserver as my DLNA/UPnP server, being able to navigate by folder.
The first software I used to navigate my collection (and that I still use for when I'm outside home) was Subsonic and it allows for that kind of folder navigation where it merges all the "root" directories content into a single listing if you select that option, so I kept my folder structure perfect (for me at least) and would love to be able to use it with minimserver as well.

This might not be of interest to many other people, so i totally understand if you fail to see the value on it.

Cheers,