Box set tagging

[paultaylor]

This is how I understand it, there is not currently any special support for ALBUMSET tag, so although you could tag your files with it and configure MinimServer to be able to browse by ALBUMSET it wouldn't currently be listed under ALBUMS only ALBUMSETs, but it would still be quite useful to be able to browse the box sets, and you could then get to the albums (volumes) within the box set that way.

If you did it that way and reserved ALBUM for the volume name, then you could browse each volumes and the discs within it. GROUP lets you group together related tracks (i.e movement of a work) but not they will not work over disc boundaries (i.e some tracks on Disc 1 and some on Disc 2). But if that is an issue you configure so that discs are not shown within an album, this would then allow groups to work.

The alternative way would be to set ALBUM to boxset name, and lose the volumes part so instead of going boxset/vol1/disc1, boxset/vol1,disc2, boxset, vol2, disc1 you just went boxset/disc1, boxset/disc2, boxset/disc3

Or you could even keeps the volumes but lose the discs by using discnumbering for volume numbering using boxset/vol1, boxset/vol2, boxset/vol3

The key thing is that when playing all album you only have two levels not the three levels. Well you have three levels if you include groups but this is for grouping tracks logically rather than representing volums or discs.

But personally I would try out the ALBUMSET idea, actually I think I will try it out.