MergeFolderAlbums superfalse option?

[Chrobar13]

I am new to Minumserver and decided to learn how to customize as I have reripped my whole 1500+ CD collection in 4 different formats (FLAC, WAV, MP3/192, & MP3/320).

I have started the tagging process of these 70,000 files and along with Minum server, I am loving the results. I have one little bug that is preventing me from seeing what I would like, though.

I went through other thread for other ideas and used one of the idea for Formatting songs and applied it to Albums, so I can see format on the Album name rather than the song names.

Album.displayFormat={$album^^^$#Audioformat^ [^^$#Audiodata^|^]^}

So, for my different formats of AC/DC Back in Black I get

Back in Black [FLAC|16/44100]
Back in Black [MP3|~192k]
Back in Black [MP3|~320k]
Back in Black [WAV|16/44100]

This is working fantastic for what I want to see, as my PS3 does not recognize FLAC files, so I can easily avoid them on that one device. The FLACs are still there indexed and available for my other devices. The one irritating thing about my PS3 is that tagging WAV files causes a second or so of static at the end of songs. Ick.

My Minimserver issue is with folder Merging. When I have a multidisc album I am trying to figure out how to apply this album display format and still keep the different album displays separate. My best Idea so far is just to treat the multidisc set as one disc in numbering and naming, which is fine for things like concerts.

But when there are multidiscs with different Subtitles, I would like to keep the same disc set grouped together, but keep the whole group separated by format type like my single disc albums.

Some examples of this issue are with the recent Bad Company Special Editions, Prince Purple Rain Special Edition, Stevie Ray Vaughan Legacy Editions and AC/DC Backtracks. These usually have a second disc with Bonus tracks I would like to identify, and Backtracks has a Studio Rarities disc and a Live Rarities disc which would also be nice to identify with Subtitles.

So I get this merging(with all 4 formats of tracks inside main group and subtitle groups) :

Backtracks [FLACMP3WAV|16/44100~192~320]

Where I want this without merging (with subtitle groups):

Backtracks [FLAC|16/44100]
Backtracks [MP3|~192k]
Backtracks [MP3|~320k]
Backtracks [WAV|16/44100]


Right now, the only way I know of to keep the displays of the different formats of these albums separate is to give a separate name to every separate discs Album tag. I would rather see them grouped with Subtitles, though. The problem is that as soon as I add disc number of greater than 1 or Disc subtitle, Minim server merges all my different formats into one album and instead of 4 albums of different formats, I have one albums with 4 formats of every song.

Is there a way to stop Folder Merging cold with no exceptions? That would fix this problem for me.

I was also trying to do an Album.indexFormat similar to my display format, thinking maybe Minim would not merge if did not see the same album names. This might work if Minim processes the indexFormat before deciding to merge. I cannot quite get the syntax right, though.

What are your thoughts? Is there a way to stop folder merging in EVERY instance, no exceptions? Will getting the indexFormat statement I described correct fix my issue, and what would the correct syntax be? I would really like to utilize the Subtitle feature, but also keep my formats separate if possible. Any other ideas?

Thank you, I have really enjoyed learning Minim server, and some of these threads have been fantastic helps! FYI, I am running Minimserver on a QNAP server, about 5 years old.

I am only about 20% of the way through tagging my collections, so a solution will give me direction while completing that process.

Thanks!

Chris