Minimserver crash - fixed in Release 72

[Pastim]

Some might wonder why on earth I want to change the display format of a Group. The reason is that I've been testing a new feature in a Control Point. This feature allows me to do the one and only thing that has been preventing me using minimserver for most of my listening.

I want (even need) to be able to listen to random 'Works' (ie sets of tracks). Using the Group facility to label my (mostly classical) Works this almost did what I needed. Unfortunately, using the Work tag copied to the Group tag (in cases allowed my minimserver) meant that multiple versions of, say, a Symphony, all got played together, since the Group is the same. To distinguish between the Groups on different Albums I therefore needed to modify the displayFormat of Group by adding the Album name. This had an additional beneficial side effect of showing the Album together with the Group on the 'now playing' display.

That's when minimserver started to crash. It took me many hours, but I tracked down about 6 difficult Albums. The worst was a collection of Works all called "Stabat Mater" by various composers, all on one Album, without breaks in the track numbers. So minimserver thought this was one Group, not 6 Works. I fixed it by changing the Group name of each (by adding the Composer's name). In cases where the Work really is the same piece but the recorded version is different, I added the Conductor's name or Year recorded.

I should add that I'm only too well aware that minimserver will not accept a Group that has missing tracks (eg where there are 2 identical Work names on an Album separated by some other Work). I fixed all these issues quite a while ago.

With the new CP feature I can now play complete classical Works randomly over my whole collection, or by Composer, Genre, Rating, Audio quality, and so on. It's wonderful. All I wish is that minimserver didn't crash