Question about the licence model and browsing through music

[simbun]

(07-07-2022 18:05)Music-Guy Wrote:  

(07-07-2022 15:34)simbun Wrote:  Is this an mp3 file? I assume it's stored as ID3v2.3 which uses '/' as the delimiter for multiple artist values! ID3v2.4 fixes this. I don't think there's much you can do about that other than move to the later standard. If I'm wrong let me know.

Yes. It is an MP3 file with ID3v2.3 tag. I have now raised the tag to ID3v2.4. This fixes the error.
Strange: I haven't had any display problems here under Twonky so far.

Support for ID3v2.3 is patchy, even mp3tag uses the ID3v2.4 delimiter (NUL) in ID3V2.3 tags because, well, I assume because it thought it was better than /, but vendors do their own thing, and @simoncn likes to be spec compliant - which is obviously the correct thing to do.

(07-07-2022 18:05)Music-Guy Wrote:  

(07-07-2022 16:00)simbun Wrote:  To get Disc X appearing for albums that have more than 1 disc, try:

itemTags: ', DiscNumber, DiscSubtitle'
tagValue: ', DiscSubtitle.default={'XX'}'
tagFormat: ', discSubtitle.displayFormat={$discNumber^Disc ^^}'

paste these values at the end of what's currently there without the enclosing quotes.

I combined this with the showAllDiscs=true entry simoncn mentioned.
I like the view it gives on albums with multiple discs. Much better than what Twonky did!

I'll remove the unnecessary entries as showAllDiscs has the same effect.

(07-07-2022 18:05)Music-Guy Wrote:  But I have a few more questions:

• How can I name the predefined names individually? For example, instead of "Album Artist", "Interpret".
  

In the indexTags option you just need to suffix the tag with a colon and then the literal you want displayed. If you look you'll see that I've already done it for a number of the tags. So simply 'Artist:Interpret'.

(07-07-2022 18:05)Music-Guy Wrote:  

• Under "Audio Book" at the top is the entry ">> Complete Album". Can this item be hidden? BubbleUPnP has already integrated a function for this.
  

Do you see that when you first select Audio Book from the index filter? Does it take you straight to your albums? I think this means that the list you're presented with doesn't have all the tracks related to an "album", does that make sense?

(07-07-2022 18:05)Music-Guy Wrote:  

• Under "Album Artist", the artists are still listed that are stored under ./music/various_artists, although they have the COMPILATON=1 tag. For the tracks under ./music/compilations/compilation_a and ./music/soundtracks/soundtrack_a, the artists are no longer listed.
  

Are you saying that you're selecting Audio Type Filter='Music' yet you're still seeing artists that should be under Compilations?
This shouldn't be happening. If you apply the music filter, then select one of the artists that you think shouldn't be there from the Album Artists index, and then click on the n items index it will take you to all the tracks that belong to that artist. If you click on the 3 vertical dots nest to one of the tracks and select 'Show metadata' it will show you (in http syntax) where that file is. If you think it shouldn't be there can you look at its tags.

(07-07-2022 18:05)Music-Guy Wrote:  

• For podcasts only, can the sorting be changed from alphabetical to by date?
  

You can only have one sort for Albums, but try removing Artist from the tagOptions:Album.sortTags and see if that works better for all scenarios.

(07-07-2022 18:05)Music-Guy Wrote:  

(07-07-2022 17:28)simoncn Wrote:  It is possible to do this. See this post.

Does this mean that I no longer have to create a filter for each decade and year, but that I can combine them?

Unfortunately it's the same approach I took.

Do you have the tag ArtistSort, if not I can remove that.
Also, do you want both the 'Audio Type Filter' and 'Podcasts Filter'?