Displaying Artist and Albums

[Alandbush]

(04-02-2021 11:20)Regade Wrote:  Dear Minim-Friends,

i am a complete new enthusiast of Streaming and Minim, but a newcomer as well! So i installed Minimserver on my Synology DS920+ and MinimWatch on my PC. I started the server and selected content directory and everythings works fine.

But thats way too much for me! I just want to have Ordneransicht (folder view), Interpret (artist) and Alben (but without the number of albums!).

And the main Problem is:

I dont want to have sub folders in Artists with multiple albums.
The current version is (e.g. ACDC)
ACDC --> Subfolders: albums, articles, date and genere.
But i want to have all the albums directly "underneath" the artist sorted by date.

Is that possible?

Greetings from Germany!

@simoncn the OP is using the Windows This PC view were clearly the MinimServer sort order is not observed.

@regade, the minimum you can specify will show Artist , Albums(xx), Items(xx) and Folder view

You can achieve this by using Minimwatch (right-click system tray Minimwatch icon and select properties)
Set the following properties:

IndexTags

Code:

Artist

ItemTags

Code:

Date

TagOptions

Code:

Album.sortTags={Date}

Select apply and restart MinimServer by using Minimwatch (right-click system tray Minimwatch icon and select Restart)

Nb - as previously noted, however, the album sort instruction will be ignored by Windows. You need a control point to achieve this.

A Control point is an application that displays your audio in a more pleasing way than plain old Windows. These applications usually obey the MinimServer instructions such as sorting Albums by date.

You could try Windows Media player or Linn Kazoo for the PC.

Ps - control point applications can also run on a mobile or tablet device. A little more difficult to implement.