Question about the licence model and browsing through music

[simbun]

Have a play with this profile and see what you think.
Load it through the configuration web page and make sure it's set as the active one (from the Select tab).

You'll also need to create the file tagUpdate.txt in /Music/Musik (see it referenced in the Advanced > tagUpdate option in MinimWatch) comprising of:

Code:

@GENRE=Podcast
+AUDIOTYPE=Podcasts
@GENRE=Hörbuch
+AUDIOTYPE=Audio Book
@COMPILATION=1
+AUDIOTYPE=Compilations

This is the code that creates a virtual tag called AUDIOTYPE that we subsequently use as a filter in the browse tree. Audio Type Filter presents the list of 4 options whereas Podcasts Filter is applied immediately. I'm obviously not expecting you to keep both, I'm just showing you what's possible.

I've added Recently Played and Added, truncated Date to just year (as some had full dates), sorted album by Artist and Date so you see the albums in chronological order, and have applied the IndexArtwork change.

For me MinimServer is a good fit because I'm a little obsessive about my tagging and it gives me a lot of control over the way my tags are displayed.
A couple of examples are

• I have Album Artist displayed and sorted by 'Surname, Firstname' in the index but in the album view (track listing) I have them in 'Firstname Surname' order.
• I have albums that aren't compilations Date prefixed (and sorted by date), whereas for my compilations I leave them as just the album name so that big collections appear in order e.g. Now That's What I Call Music 1,2,3,4.
  

It's not right for everyone though :-)