Question & Feature request: Best method for browsing multi-disc albums

[simoncn]

(13-01-2013 20:34)Wammer Wrote:  As part of my major retagging exercise I have been making extensive use of MinimServer's ability to display multi-disc albums as single albums. It is a great feature which makes browsing much easier, and it works really well for single-genre sets - opera, concertos, symphonies, etc. - that make up the majority of my multi-disc sets.

However, I have a problem with multi-disc sets that use more than one genre. For example, I have an 8-disc set of Bach compositions that contains a mixture of concertos, orchestral, and chamber works. In this instance I used the "Album [Disc n]" format, but I experienced similar problems on another multi-genre set using just a common album title without the [Disc n] suffix.

The problem is that my control points (Kinsky, Songbook Lite, and PlugPlayer) all display multiple instances of the album. In Composer view, the eight discs appear as four separate "albums" - and I can discern no logic in how the tracks are split between each. In Genre view Concertos and Orchestral each display two "albums" which (coincidentally or otherwise) seem to reflect the disks they reside on, but Chamber displays three "albums" with no discernible logic.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

I've tried this, and everything is working as I would expect. I tagged a multi-disc album with a single Composer value and a mixture of different Genre values. If I select by the album's Composer, I see the complete album with all its discs. If I select by one of the Genre values, I see a list of tracks matching that specific genre (taken from different discs), together with a '>> Complete Album' selection that lets me see the complete multi-disc album.

Can you give exact details of how you've tagged one of the problem albums? Please also post a screenshot of what you're seeing in Kinsky.