displayRole versus displayFormat

[haggis999]

(22-05-2018 07:40)simoncn Wrote:  The reason you are getting the composer twice in BubbleUPnP is because you have used tagFormat to send the composer as the artist name. Most users would not be doing this and BubbleUPnP would then (correctly) be showing both the artist and the composer.

Yes indeed. Only those users whose MinimServer settings are optimised for another control point would hit this minor issue when using BubbleUPnP. It can easily be resolved by either turning off the Composer display in BubbleUPnP or by converting it to show another tag, as in the example I gave in my last post.

Quote:Reducing this long discussion to a sentence or two (that makes sense to a non-technical user) would be quite a challenge but I will see what I can do to improve the current explanation.

This discussion would have been considerably shorter if I hadn't made a mistake when testing out the practical effects of adding and removing the two settings mentioned in my OP. If you strip that out, the discussion only started at post #15

For me, the current explanation suffers from the following issues.

• The meaning of displayRole is unclear
• The meaning of 'role' is also unclear in this context
• Readers need to be warned that the use of 'artist' in a displayRole setting is NOT a reference to the Artist tag
• We haven't discussed this yet, but the sentence "MinimServer sets an initial default value of 'artist' for AlbumArtist" was also a source of confusion. Am I supposed to have a tagCustom setting for AlbumArtist?
  

I realise it won't be easy to fix these problems, but look forward to seeing how you meet this challenge.