Feature suggestion: customise abum, title inside groups

[simoncn]

(15-04-2013 02:43)classical11 Wrote:  I'm using BubbleUPnP.

If I understand it correctly (please correct me if I'm wrong), Minim passes the control point different information in the Title tag depending on whether you are browsing the top level contents of an album that contains tracks tagged with Group, or if you are browsing the Group itself. In the first instance, the Title passed to the control point will contain the Group tag, in the second instance it will contain the actual Title tag. Minim allows tags to be reformatted for display purposes, however there is no way currently to differentiate between the Title at the album level and the Title at the group level. I need to set a tagFormat only on the Title at the group level. Similarly, I would also like to format the Album tag at the group level only to contain the Group tag instead of the Album tag.

I hope I haven't caused any more confusion with the above explanation. Is my understanding correct?

I've made a few changes to how this is implemented. I hope this will give you what you need.

1) You can now create a Group.displayFormat setting in addition to Title.displayFormat and Album.displayFormat

2) You can now specify the value $group in a format item. This has the following meaning:
For a track that's a member of a group, it's the group name
For a group, it's the group name
For everything else, it's ignored

3) The $album value in a format item has been extended, as follows:
For a track that's a member of an album, it's the album name
For a group that's a member of an album, it's the album name
For an album, it's the album name
For everything else, it's ignored

4) For a track that's a member of a group, the DIDL-Lite presented to the control point has the <upnp:album> value set to the group instead of the album.

Quote:The way I see it, tagFormat works very well in conjunction with these basic custom tags that I have. You are correct that with the tagFormat feature I will not need to even tag my library with title and artist, I can use tagFormat to define these using the basic custom tags that I have.

Yes, exactly. The tagFormat approach allows the substitution and formatting to be done dynamically at runtime instead of needing a previous scripting step.