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(14-05-2013 20:15)hvaleton Wrote:  Hi Stefano,
Thanks for your quick response. But if your remark is true, how in heaven's name is one to listen to an entire cd in its original order, ever? I mean, you mentioned some of your music files lacked tags (and so had no album name, based on which they could be ordered) and were not sorted correctly because of that. But all my files have been tagged with great accuracy. So, with the risk of repeating myself, how does one play an entire cd?

The Album tag is intended to represent the entire CD. If a folder contains an entire CD (Album tag), the current MinimServer sort order will do what you want. If the folder contains multiple entire CDs (Album tags), the current sort order will group the tracks of each album (entire CD) together.

I have the impression you're not using the Album tag to represent the entire CD, but to represent a musical work within the CD. MinimServer supports the Group tag for tagging musical works within an album, and you would get the correct sort order if you tag each musical work as a Group instead of an Album.

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I have just now tried to add "Track" to indexTags and changed Album.sortTags to:
Album.sortTags={Track, Album, Artist}
But this does not seem to solve my problem.
My thinking was that, since all my music files have track numbers that are unique within a folder, if I could add this tag to the index tags, this could perhaps help me.
Is "Track" the proper tag name for track number anyway?

regards, Hans

You would need to use Tracknumber, not Track. However, this won't work at present because Tracknumber values are currently ignored for indexTags and itemTags processing. I will enable this in the next release so you can try it, but you might not be happy with the strange sort order it produces for the "n albums" list. Using the Group tag for musical works is a better approach.