Please help me start up with tags

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(02-08-2021 10:08)MiniMe Wrote:  What I have hierarchically in folders is the following:
Top : Genre (folder name)
Mid : Artist + Album (subfolder name)
Low : Track number (filenames in the subfolder)

When I came from Sonos I could click a Top level folder and play everything underneath. Now with the uPnp streaming I somehow can not yet play such Top level folder, but rather need to add Mid level one by one.

I know MinimServer can by tagging e.g. quickly show everything in a Genre, and display all items belonging to that Genre, however the sorting of files thereunder is A-Z of names that Minimserver has collected from both Filenames and Track Titles.

My question is, how do I tag and index in a way that is appropriate for the Top, Mid, Low levels in the further above example?

MinimServer doesn't have the concept of a drill hierarchy, instead it has Intelligent Browsing, which essentially means that it displays all the indexes you have configured via IndexTags e.g. "Artist, AlbumArtist, Genre", as a list of items from which you can choose to subset by as few or as many as you like (it's more powerful than that, so read the linked guide).

So, if you were to configure indexTags as "Artist, AlbumArtist, Genre", in your control point you'd see:

[n] albums
[n] items
Artist
AlbumArtist
Genre

The selection of the top two items takes you to your album or song list, the sorting of which is controlled by the default, or configured sort order. You can however only define one sort order for each, typically it'd be "AlbumArtist, Year, Album" for album.

By selecting Genre, you'll be presented with a list of Genres present in your music files, and once you've made a selection you'll be taken back to the index page which will look exactly like the original presentation except for the absence of the Genre index (bearing in mind the intelligent browsing logic).
At this point you can choose to subset by another index, or to see the matching albums or songs.

I think it'd be best if you tag a handful of albums with the basic tags (making sure they're across a number of different genres so you can test the index selection) and point MinimServer at them (you shouldn't need to configure anything but the path initially), and it'll give you a better idea of how it works. At that point you'll probably have more specific questions which we may be able to help answer.
Basic tags should include: Album Cover, Album Artist, Album, Genre, Disc Number, Track Number, Artist, Track Title and Release Date.

I don't know if you've already made a control point choice, but BubbleUPnP is probably the best, unless you're on ios then your choices are a bit more limited.