Feature suggestion: customise abum, title inside groups

[Oliviander]

(15-04-2013 21:55)simoncn Wrote:  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.

Hi Simon,
I am playing around with these features for two days now,
and they are great.

But I have got 3 little things missing to get everything out of it
i hoped for:

1. Maybe I didn't get it:
but am I right that I can't displayFormat the ALBUMARTIST
entry of an ALBUM ?
I would like to do that.

2. Obviously the ALBUMARTIST entry is used for
the Group too.
I would like to format that in anotherway as
the ALBUMARTIST entry.
Meaning there should be GROUPARTIST Tag too
(Standard behaviour of course GROUPARTIST = ALBUMARTIST)

3. (your 4.) Sending the Group Value to the controlpoint
very is useful in most cases.
BUT I have one instance aof MinS running
wheer this behavior is not useful.
So it would be good to make this optional
(but actual I can live with it as it is now)

BUT 1 and 2 would be really great to see soon!
as it would complete the format possibilities of
the output to the CP.

Addition:
I just discovered that I can do format
the entry by
aliasing Albumartist:nil
and then formating the artist tag.
So only my 2 is still of concern to me