Separate Album Releases Seen as One Album

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Sorry about the lateness of this response, but I've finally had a moment to mess around with MinimServer some more and think about the solutions offered. Thanks for giving them!

(25-11-2020 15:28)simbun Wrote:  I had a similar problem.

I didn't want to butcher the folder name or the album/album artist field so I ended up creating a new tag that uniquely identified the album (could just be a counter 1-x) that I then used in MinimSever as "Album" so that it groups everything correctly, and used .displayFormat to change it back for display purposes.

aliasTags: Album:inAlbum,ALBUMUNIQID:Album
itemTags: inAlbum
tagOptions: Album.sortTags={+inAlbum}
tagFormat: Album.displayFormat={$inAlbum}

I like this one most, as altering all my album folder names would be quite the task.
I am having one issue, though. My library is mostly made up of FLAC files, with a few MP3 and DSF albums sprinkled in. Using the above solution, my FLAC albums display as I want:

What's Going On? (1971) (2008) [12" Vinyl]

But albums made of MP3 or DSF files (ID3v2.3 tags) are all packed into a [no album] folder. My settings (I'm pasting the complete lines, in case something in one of them is causing the interference) below:

aliasTags: ARTISTSORT:Artists, MEDIATYPE:Media, Album:viewAlbum, MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID:Album
itemTags: +Date, DiscNumber, OriginalDate, Media, viewAlbum, Style
tagOptions: Album.sortTags={OriginalDate, Date}, all.ignore.sort={The, A, An, DJ, ., *, Lil, Lil'}, OriginalDate.yearOnly.display
tagFormat: Album.displayFormat={$viewAlbum^$OriginalDate^ (^)^$Date^ $Media^ [^]}

EDIT: Using TALB:viewAlbum correctly separates out each album in any format, but only the dates and the media type are displayed. The album name is not.