Please help me start up with tags

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(03-08-2021 12:34)MiniMe Wrote:  From my previous chapter with Sonos devices I could in the Sonos app always play hi level folders. I miss this option in uPnp streaming sofar. I'm sure though this can be programmed around.

I use BubbleUPnP and at each level within an index there's a vertical ellipsis that if selected offers me the ability to 'Play, Shuffle play, Enqueue' every item within that index. I don't know if this functionality if offered by every control point, but it's not controlled by the server, so you might have to look around.

(03-08-2021 12:34)MiniMe Wrote:  My fav example for playing a hi level folder is e.g. having a folder that is named e.g. "Weekend". I would move in and out of this folder my fav cd folder for the weekend and would like to in one go create a playlist for it, so without having to redo all tags or to have to move all albums one by one into a new playlist.

If you continued to move albums into a Weekend folder you'd be able to replicate the Sonos functionality simply by browsing via '[folder view]'.
If you wanted to avoid moving albums around, and didn't want to modify the tags, the other option is tagUpdate.
It's a slightly more advanced feature, but it allows you to create virtual (they only exist within the scope of MinimServer) tags that could be used to bring multiple albums under an index selection.

For instance:

Code:

@ALBUM=Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
@ALBUM=Dark Side Of The Moon
+WEEKEND_PLAYLIST=1

adds the virtual tag WEEKEND_PLAYLIST with a value of 1 to each song that has an album name of 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' or 'Dark Side Of The Moon'.
You could then leverage automatic selection and add WEEKEND_PLAYLIST=1 to indexTags, and you'd see a selection within the control point called WEEKEND_PLAYLIST that when selected would contain all of the albums you've added via the tagUpdate script (or that have a WEEKEND_PLAYLIST tag in the files themselves).

Out of interest is Sonos your target system, as by going this route you'll lose the option to have stereo (two speakers paired L & R) or synchronised playback.