Multiple Instances (Encouraging Feature Development:)

[simoncn]

My apologies for the delay in responding.

The tagUpdate facility isn't designed to make the tag changes that you want to make. Tag updating has always been activated by an exact match for a specific tag name and value and I don't think it woiuld be a good idea to change this by adding a new operation to match all items.

The tagValue options are already complex and there is a difficult balance in deciding whether adding a new capability in this area justifies the extra complexity. The use case that you have described is very unusual and is effectively a means of "bending the rules" as you have said in an earlier post. As such, I am not convinced that this use case justifies adding a new tagValue option that would only be used for rule-bending purposes.

I have tried hard to think of some other way to do what you want using existing MinimServer capabilities but I haven't been able to come up with anything suitable. Taking a step back to the problem you are trying to solve, you want to use MinimServer to create some additional tags (e.g., JazzInterpret) that aren't in your library. The usual way to add extra tags to the library is to use a tagging program to do this. Some tagging programs such as Mp3tag can perform bulk scripting actions using regular expressions and it is likely that this approach would provide sufficient flexibility to add the tags that you want.