MinimServer 0.70 - Working with the new tagFormat property

[simoncn]

(09-04-2013 13:30)bbrip Wrote:  

(09-04-2013 13:13)simoncn Wrote:  This is a typo in the documentation. The correct name is 'multiTag'. I've fixed this now.

Gottcha Splendid - that did the trick and I can confirm as well that the LUMIN CP now picks up multiple genre values. How great is that

Now trying to get it do display multiple artists. The "trick" I'm trying here is is to Alias Soloist as AlbumArtist and set that as Multitag. I'll report back....

UPDATE - NOPE Multitag on an "aliased" AlbumArtist does not work. I know multitagging the "real" AlbumArtist is a no-go for MinimServer. But with a camouflaged Albumartist ??? ok, anyway, it was worth a try....

When you alias a tag, you're logically replacing the source tag name by the target tag name. So your Soloist tags will be treated by MinimServer as if they are AlbumArtist tags (and will therefore be subject to all the AlbumArtist rules).

You should be able to send multiple <artist> XML tags by using Artist.multiTag. This would work with Artist file tags or with Soloist file tags aliased to Artist.

Other variations are possible. You could leave the Soloist tag unaliased and use the Soloist.displayRoles={artist} setting to send it to the control point as the XML tag

<artist role="Soloist">My Soloist</artist>

You can combine this with Soloist.multiTag to send multiple soloist values as separate XML tags.