Feature suggestion: customise abum, title inside groups

[classical11]

Hi Simon,

First of all, many thanks for this fantastic piece of software!

My collection contains mostly classical music. I'm in the early stages of sorting out the library (I've been using CDs until now) and I'm trying to emulate all the good aspects of listening to music using physical media. With MinimServer's support for custom tags and intelligent browsing, I think I'm very close to moving away from CDs. (One major remaining area that is probably quite difficult to address is easy access to the digital booklet while listening but I will discuss that separately to see what ideas people have.)

I'm using Minim's great feature of splitting albums into works by tagging individual works with the "group" tag. My suggestion would be be able to customise the album name and track names when listing the contents of a work without affecting what is shown when listing the works (groups) inside an album.

I'll give an example to clarify. I have an album with 2 works (tagged with 'group'):
album: Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 and Triple Concerto
group: Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92\\Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C major for piano, violin and cello, Op. 56

I also have a "movement" tag on each track. The "title" tag is made up of "$group: $movement".

When I browse the album, I see the following listing (Listing 1):

[Album art] Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 and Triple Concerto
London Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C major for piano, violin and cello, Op. 56

This is great, and I want to leave it as is. However, when I browse a work, say the Concerto, I get the following listing in BubbleUpnp (Listing 2):

[Album art] Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 and Triple Concerto
London Symphony Orchestra

5. Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C major for piano, violin and cello, Op. 56: I. Allegro
London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Gordan Nikolitch - violin, Tim Hugh - cello, Lars Vogt - piano
6. Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C major for piano, violin and cello, Op. 56: II. Largo
London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Gordan Nikolitch - violin, Tim Hugh - cello, Lars Vogt - piano
7. Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C major for piano, violin and cello, Op. 56: III. Rondo alla polacca
London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Gordan Nikolitch - violin, Tim Hugh - cello, Lars Vogt - piano

What I would prefer to see instead is this:

[Album art] Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C major for piano, violin and cello, Op. 56 [Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 and Triple Concerto]
London Symphony Orchestra

5. I. Allegro
London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Gordan Nikolitch - violin, Tim Hugh - cello, Lars Vogt - piano
6. II. Largo
London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Gordan Nikolitch - violin, Tim Hugh - cello, Lars Vogt - piano
7. III. Rondo alla polacca
London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Gordan Nikolitch - violin, Tim Hugh - cello, Lars Vogt - piano


The reason for this is that it is much cleaner and easier to see what the movements are. This is the normal way movements are listed on a CD back cover. It will also make it easier to see the movements on control points that still refuse to use multiple lines to list tracks (Bubble included) and use the annoying scrolling to show data that does not fit on the screen.

I have tried using the new tagFormat feature in 0.70:

minimserver.tagFormat = Title.displayFormat\={$movement}, Album.displayFormat\={$group$album}

This fixed Listing 2 but, as expected, also changed the group view inside an album (Listing 1) to:

[Album art] Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C major for piano, violin and cello, Op. 56, Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 and Triple Concerto
London Symphony Orchestra

I. Poco sostenuto - vivace, II. Allegretto, III. Presto, IV. Allegro con brio
I. Allegro, II. Largo, III. Rondo alla polacca

Would it be possible to create some special tags, e.g. Album@Group, Title@Group, that would only modify the listings on the second screen (inside a group)?

Thanks,
Ciprian