Albums with multiple album artists are not shown when browsing e.g. by album artists

[simoncn]

(09-03-2013 10:09)Oliviander Wrote:  As I just stumbled upon that very problem, when setting up minimserver for the first time.
I would gladly read in the Users Manual a chapter about all the Tags that have a special use or special Restricitions.
(I mean Tags that are used even if not appearing in the index list)

I have a large flac collection and tagged it completely with multiple
albumartists when applicable (Works well with asset upnp and lies within the Vorbis Comments Stadard).

As the Error still occurs when i delete the albumartist tag from the index list, I would like to know the consequences for not updating this
tag to the expected format.

Obviously I can access the albums as a whole and therefore
I can not see the restricitons you mentioned.

So I'm not sure whether I should retag my whole collection,
or just leave the AlbumArtist tag exluded from the index list ?

MinimServer uses the AlbumArtist tag as follows:

1) For grouping tracks or discs together into albums, except in the special case where all tracks for an album are in the same directory

2) For creating the Artist index: any albums tagged with AlbumArtist have the AlbumArtist value placed in the Artist index instead of the album's Artist values

3) For sending to the control point in responses to browsing queries. Some control points (e.g., Kinsky) use this tag to group playlist tracks into albums.

4) As a regular tag for indexing, if it is included in indexTags

By removing this tag from indexTags, you are disabling 4) but not 1) 2) and 3). It isn't possible currently to disable 1) 2) or 3), or to disable the warning messages.

The tags that MinimServer reads even if they don't appear in indexTags are ARTIST, ALBUMARTIST, ALBUM ARTIST, TITLE, ALBUM, GROUP, TRACKNUMBER, DISCNUMBER and DISCSUBTITLE.

In the next release of MinimServer, there will be a new "tag alias" facility that would enable you to define (for example) MAINARTIST as the alias for ALBUMARTIST. This would disable MinimServer's special handling of 1) 2) and 3) above. You could use the existing tag index display renaming facility to display the index choice for MAINARTIST as the name AlbumArtist if you prefer to see this when browsing. This might be the combination you are looking for.