Computation of number of albums ...

[simbun]

If different albums (remix vs original etc) with the same name (Album tag) reside in a single folder then I believe MinimServer will classify them as one (no matter what the other tags are).

If different albums are in separate folders then they'll be treated as individual albums unless one of them has a second DiscNumber, at which point they're ALL treated as one. However, if they have different AlbumArtists (or different Artists if there's no AlbumArtist) they should be treated seperately.


I have a very prescriptive tagging approach but I faced similar issues to you in that I had multiple values of album title (containing multiple discs). One example is the album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' where I had the 2009 Mono, the 2009 Stereo and the 2017 Super Deluxe Edition.
For me, I had other tags to distinguish between them:

Code:

ALBUM NAME                                BOXTITLE              RELEASE
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band     The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band     The Beatles in Mono
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band                           Super Deluxe Edition

Whilst Minimsever allows you to modify how the tags look in the control point, the modifications are all after the logic that determines what an album is, and thus all these albums would have been merged together even if I had changed the displayFormat of album.
My solution was to use foobar2000 to create a new tag called ALBUMUNIQID using the formatted value: $crc32($meta(album artist)$meta(boxtitle)$meta(album)$meta(release)$meta(date)).
I then use this tag as "album" in MinimServer (by aliasTags:Album:inAlbum,ALBUMUNIQID:Album) and reformat the album tag to how I want it to look in the control point e.g. Album.displayFormat={$inAlbum^^^$boxtitle^ (from the boxset '^')^$release^ (^)^}. You will also need to modify the Album sort otherwise it will be sorted by the CRC values themselves e.g. Album.sortTags={+inAlbum}.


Your Paul Bley/Robert Cray albums should already be counted correctly as they appear in different folders - assuming proper AlbumArtist/Artist tags.

If the Original vs the Remix are in separate folders and have only a single disc each then they should appear individually, otherwise they'll be treated as one. If they're being treated as one but have a different release Date tag, you could use that in the computation of ALBUMUNIQID to force them apart.

Where you have flac vs SACD, I don't think MinimServer allows you to use #AudioQuality in tagFormats, and if you wanted to differentiate the albums by name e.g. 'Wish You Were Here (CD)' vs. 'Wish You Were Here (SACD)' (to get the album count correct), rather than by filter (using #AudioQuality as an indexTag) you'd need to have foobar2000 create a new tag. This could be based on attributes like the codec or channel count (https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?ti...codec.25). Once you have that you could then follow the same approach as above.