Display Format Tagging Syntax

[simoncn]

(18-05-2015 21:47)pzyvbv Wrote:  Hi

I didn't explain it very well.

For a boxset I have used the $DiscSubtitle tag as part of the Album.displayFormat. So this display text is generated at the album level and will include all the values of $DiscSubtitle tag it finds for all tracks in that album, so all the album titles in the box set are listed as part of the album text delimited by the specified seperator. So at the album level there are multiple occurrences of the $DiscSubtitle.

This is different to effectively concatenating 2 tags within a single format item and using the seperator between the 2 tags. This concatenated tag (format item) could then be used at a level higher than the raw item (track) and may present multiple values similar to $DiscSubtitle. If this were to be the case then it is possible that a different delimiter is required.

An example might perhaps be that for a boxset as part of the Album.displayFormat you want the album name (boxset name) followed by each individual $DiscSubtitle and the date of that disc.

This would be something like:
Album.displayFormat={$Album^^^$DiscSubtitle$Date^ - ^^, }

My point (assuming what I have said so far is correct!) is that the seperator between $DiscSubtitle and $Date would be ", " and this would also have to be the seperator between the each occurence of $DiscSubtitle$Date at the album level.

So we would have:
boxsetname - discsubtitlea, 1980, discsubtitleb, 1981, discsubtitlec, 1982
whereas we might actually want:
boxsetname - discsubtitlea: 1980, discsubtitleb: 1981, discsubtitlec: 1982

Hopefully this is clearer....but it may also be wrong!

C

Thanks for the clarification. In this case, you are including $discsubtitle and $date in the same format item and this makes these tags equivalent for duplicate removal and separator purposes. This equivalence also applies when combining tags from different tracks in an album. I think it would add too much complexity to extend the format string to enable two different separators to be used in this unusual special case.

Quote:On a side note I have mergeFolderAlbums set to false, but MinimServer is still merging boxsets so I end up with one boxset, and one set of albums in the boxset, and the track on every boxset album is repeated once from each boxset...? Normal albums (not boxsets) work fine and are not merged.

Should I raise this elsewhere?

Are you saying that you have two differerent albums (box sets) with the same album name and albumartist name and these are getting merged together into a single album? if so, you can use a match filter (see my earlier post) to prevent this from happening.

If this is not what you are saying, please provide more detail with an example to illustrate the problem.