MinimServer doesnt like multivalues for AlbumArtist

[paultaylor]

(28-07-2017 13:00)steve1977 Wrote:  I am undecided whether to open a new thread. It is related to above request, so let me reply here first.

My request is also related to multivalues fields. I am considering to switch over to MiniM, but would like to check first:

1) Artists tag (with "s") - is this tag supported to separate songs with several artists (e.g., xxx feat. yyy)

2) Albumartists (with "s") - this will be a feature request. Would it be possible for MiniM to add support to the albumartists tag? I have some albums with "albumartist=xxx & yyy"; i.e., an album by two artists. Tagged with MBZ, I have two tags o allow MiniM to identify this (albumartist=xxx & yyy and albumartists=xxx;yyy). This is a very neat way that the artist view includes two albumartists ("xxx" and "yyy"), but not a third artist ("xxx & yyy"). This would be a great new feature to me.


Any chance to support this? Thanks in advance!

Steve, the artists and albumartists tag was something I introduced into Jaikoz and SongKong quite a few years and it has since been taken up by some other tagers such as Musicbrainz Picard. I dont know if you are using these applications or coincidentally have created the same tags with something else but if you use albumartist to serve minimservers albumartist field, and then use multivalue albumartists as a separate indexable field this can work as I describe in http://blog.jthink.net/2017/05/minimserv...album.html

MinimServer supports any field, but it doesn't support having different values for the albumartist on one album, nor the same (but multi-valued) albumartist on one album, which was my query so mapping albumartists directly to albumartist would not work well.

But there is no issue mapping artists to the artist field