Creating a New Music library view

[Denon DL304]

Thanks guys, for the quick responses. I understand that it is not a trivial matter, much to my relief. Also, apparently you can't just use an existing open source software module because of MinimServer's structure.

As to changing tags of existing library items, that would indeed copy the changed files (as albums!) right back into the New Music view after a rescan. My friend demonstrated that with his fully up-to-date LMS 7.9.2 system. I tried LMS a few years back but wasn't impressed with either its performance (MinimServer really sets the benchmark here), LMS's (in)compatibility with a number of control point apps, its plugin system (some are very complicated e.g. the Airplay, UPnP and Chromecast plugins) and a number of quirks (bugs).

I'm guessing if a mass tagger application (mp3tag ?) would have the option to retain the original date/time stamp of the files, the retagged files would not return to the New Music view. However, my LMS friend also said that if one edits the tags of only **some** files of an album, only those edited files would be displayed within New Music --> Albums view or even duplicate Albums with different contents (one having the unedited files, the other the retagged ones), but luckily not in the standard library views AFAIK. Ideally a software routine would be needed to avoid this situation. To resolve this situation in LMS now, apparently a complete new library scan is needed, deleting the existing database and building a new database from the ground up.

Thanks & cheers,
Marco