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Smart Browsing Trees - what tags supported
07-06-2015, 09:03
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Smart Browsing Trees - what tags supported
Hello,

Firstly, thanks for a great music server. I mainly listen to classical and jazz music and it's the first server I've found that really suits my needs. An excellent job well done, many thanks.

I particularly like the 'smart tree browsing' feature (for want of an alternative description), so I can browse genre -> albumartist -> album but also go via composer or year or orchestra. Very nice indeed.

My question relates to this 'smart tree browsing' system, as I'm looking for a way to incorporate the tag 'Band', particularly for a lot of jazz albums. I'll explain what I'm trying to do by way of an example:

I have about 40 Keith Jarrett albums (jazz pianist) that I have tagged into different 'Bands', which are "American Quartet", "European Quartet", "Solo Piano", "Standards Trio" and "Other Collaborations" (a mop up last one). This is because the albums made with these different bands are very distinct from each other. So for example my wife loves his European Quartet albums but she doesn't know the names of them, so she'd like to browse the following tree:

Genre -> <Jazz> -> AlbumArtist -> <Jarrett, Keith> -> Band -> <European Quartet> -> Album

Then she's see a list of his European Quartet albums and could choose one to play.

Is this possible? Sorry for the slightly longwinded example, but I thought it was more descriptive to use a real example. Perhaps if I used the tag "Orchestra" instead of "Band" it would work? That just feels a bit odd as this subdivision clearly isn't by Orchestra, although it is a similar usage. Or perhaps there's another tag for this purpose that I'm not aware of?

Thanks again for a great program and any help would be much appreciated,

Best,
Hugo Read
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