Multiple Genre & Library

[simoncn]

(14-10-2017 21:09)Kees van Loenen Wrote:  Hi Simon and readers,

I'm loving Minimserver for its huge flexibility. Actually most is working fine. I've got 2 questions for which I've been digging through all stuff on this forum.

Question 1: multiple genres
I'm tagging with the tool 'MP3 tag'.
- (FLAC files) when using multiple genres then Minimserver is using them perfectly.
- (MP3 files) when using multiple genres in an ID3v2.3 (storing both ID3v1 ID3v2.3) file, only the first genre is found (I've also tested this behaviour with a limited number of files and letting Minimserver logging the tag info to a file).
In both scenarios, FLAC and MP3, I've multiple separate GENRE tags.

This is caused by Mp3tag writing ID3v2.3 tags with multiple values in a nonstandard way that isn't compatible with the ID3v2.3 specification. If you convert your files to ID3v2.4, it should work as expected.

Quote:Question 2: family
Minimserver runs on a NAS where only 1 instance can be installed. What would be the best way to split my music collection into 3 libraries (targeting wife, kids & myself) without:
- using the genre field
- introducing a new tag to every music file

Many thanks in advance,
Kees

If there is no overlap between the 3 libraries, you can put them under separate top-level folders, then browse using [folder view] followed by >> Tag View to enter each library. If there is overlap, you would need to add new tags to the files.