Displaying the same album across multiple box sets

[simbun]

When tagging I have a defined set of tags that will ALWAYS be populated:

ALBUM
ALBUMARTIST
GENRE
DATE
COVER
DISCNUMBER
TRACKNUMBER
ARTIST
TITLE

The next most populated is probably RELEASE where I put:

Code:

ALBUM                                        RELEASE
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band        Super Deluxe Edition
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band        Mono Remaster
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band        Stereo Remaster

I believe this models most cleanly the elements of album. The folder structure follows this and thus each are in separate folders.

Given what you said above about the processing of Album.displayFormat and Album.merge I was hoping that I'd be able to keep them separate in the UI by setting mergeFolderAlbums to false (from the user guide: If set to true, MinimServer automatically merges album tracks from different folders. See the Albums and folders section for details), but reading more into the detail it turns out it's on by default and if you populate DISCNUMBER there's no way to turn it off!

Quote:MinimServer merges album contents from different folders if ANY of the following apply:
The folder album contents include a DISCNUMBER tag
The folder album name is suffixed by the string [disc <n>], (disc <n>) or , disc <n>, where <n> is a positive integer (see the Multidisc albums section)
The folder album contents include a DISCSUBTITLE tag
The folder name contains the string [part]
The mergeFolderAlbums property is set to true

Surely setting mergeFolderAlbums to false should tell MinimServer not to merge across folders?

I appreciate the advice on the tag update file but I'd rather it all be tag based so the only option I can really think of (without butchering the tags) is to create an ALBUM tag just for MinimServer.

Thanks for your help.