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Chrobar13 · 28-04-2020, 01:26

Simon and Simon,

I have been playing around with my setup today and may have found a situation similar to simbun's FLAC finding.

The extra tag solution simbun suggested is a bit of work, so I have been playing with the Match filters. This extra tag solution is actually what I was trying to simulate with my original tagFormat idea in creating a indexFormat, but I never got the syntax or perhaps usage right.

Adding the Match filter works fabulously, except for one detail. One of the reasons I liked the merge is because Minimserver displayed Subtitles within albums, and I wanted to keep that display. So, when I add the Match filter, the separate encodes separate just like I wanted them to. Yay!

Non-FLAC display issue:
However, the subtitle display was only functioning on the FLAC versions of the album. Further testing shows where I was first seeing the subtitle displays with ALL FOUR encodes, if I simply remove the FLAC version from the scan, the subtitles subdisplay disappears. Apparently, the FLAC tags need to be present for all the other tagging styles to trigger the subtitle display.

I actually tried putting just one FLAC file into my MP3 and WAV folders and something VERY VERY interesting happened. The subtitle display was triggered for ALL files. The subtitle name for disc two is Disc 2 instead of Live Rarities because I had no FLAC file present from disc two in those folders.

So for now, I am going to recode my folder name correction to include a Match filter for multidisc sets in all cases.

Only FLAC versions of the album will have the subtitle display in use, though. I may play around with that. Not all titles I would actually be interested in a subtitle display. Multiple disc concert performances have no need to identify the disc, for instance. Just go to the next song. So for the multidisc sets where a subtitle display would be nice (Backtracks or Bonus Content discs), I may just include a blank FLAC file for each disc in the set in the non-FLAC folders. The issue with that is FLAC will then appear in my Album name display along with MP3 or WAV because of the display format I set up. Ick.

Unless there are other suggestions or a fix to the subtitle display in the works, I am very happy. Not Perfection, but I am loving what I am seeing!

Remember I am running on a QNAP, if checking the code for the subtitle needs you to know that. And if I go with the Kick in the Butt simbun gave me, I might not even keep MP3 defined on my home Minimserver network and just use those files for devices with space considerations.

Thanks!

Chris

(27-04-2020 13:18)simbun Wrote: Hi simoncn,

I've just been playing around with the above scenario and I think I've found an inconsistency.

I've converted a FLAC album that contains 2 CD's to MP3 and included it under the same contentDirectory so I now have two copies of that album under MinimServer.
If I add #Audioformat to indexTags, when I browse (using BubbleUPnP) and select #AudioFormat, choose FLAC then navigate to the album I don't get a track list view of the album (so I don't see disc subtitle headings), instead I get something that looks a bit more like an album list view. If I pick an album with only one CD it displays as expected.
If I don't go through #AudioFormat and navigate to the album it's displayed correctly (although it does intermix both the FLAC and MP3 files).

When I look at the log, the first thing that jumps out at me is for the first browse I see:
12:27:06.474 Thread-29: browsing children of container com.minimserver.Server$AlbumItemList@1e1d56f4
However for the second browse I see:
12:26:39.175 Thread-27: browsing children of container com.minimserver.Server$AlbumContainer@794c6bde

If I select the options for one of the songs when I've browsed via the #AudioFormat route it offers 'Show Album', which essentially takes me to the album view via the other browse hierarchy.

Sorry if this is known; I did look in the user guide under the 'Special index and item tags' but couldn't see any mention of anything like this behaviour.