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(02-03-2016 17:50)simoncn Wrote:  This feature has been requested by other users and I am hoping to add support for it in a future version of MinimServer.

My $0.02 on this feature request?

If you are going to do this, please consider the following:

1. Make it a top-level container, so that I can browse albums, artists, et al.

2. Allow a specified date-range for what's new, based on date albums are added to the repository.

This second one is important; I have two other "systems" that attempt to auto-generate a "Newly Added" collection and they only seem to include the last group of files added to the repository, which makes the feature of little value, IMO.

An alternative that might be easier to implement, because you don't need to track import time/date: a top-level container of all albums, sorted by create date/time for the files, which will roughly match when they were downloaded or ripped from CD. Maybe group by month (for the last N months, then by year after that) and then sorted by artist within the month or year.

I buy a lot of music and I manually create playlists that reflect some of the above, so I can keep track of what I've recently purchased and haven't listen to, yet.