Question about the licence model and browsing through music

[Music-Guy]

(07-07-2022 20:01)simbun Wrote:  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.

Didn't know that. All my files are tagged in ID3v2.3. But in this case I'm thinking of updating all to ID3v2.4.

(07-07-2022 20:01)simbun Wrote:  and @simoncn likes to be spec compliant - which is obviously the correct thing to do.

I absolutely agree in this. Spec comliancy is always to way it should go.

(07-07-2022 20:01)simbun Wrote:  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?

When I go to "Audio Type Filter" and then to "Audio Book", I see ">> Complete Album" and below that all the titles of the audio book.
If I go to ">> Complete Album", I see ">> Hide Content" and the album name (with year). All the titles are then grouped by disc number.
Titles are not missing anywhere.
I have to say that I only have one audio book in the folder at the moment.
Please excuse me if I have misunderstood you.

(07-07-2022 20:01)simbun Wrote:  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.

No, the Audio Type Filter=Music does not include the artists from the files tagged with COMPILATION=1.
But under "Album Artist" (called directly from the top level).
Strangely, not all compilation artists are listed there, but only those from the folder ./music/various_artists.
The compilation artists from the other folders whose files are tagged with COMPILATION=1 are not listed there.
I checked the storage location via the metadata. The files in question are indeed only in this one folder (and its subfolders).
I have also checked the tags of the audio files in question and could not find any deviations from the tagging scheme of the other compilation files.

(07-07-2022 20:01)simbun Wrote:  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.

I have tested both variants, but could not find any difference.

(07-07-2022 20:01)simbun Wrote:  Do you have the tag ArtistSort, if not I can remove that.

No, I don't have that.

(07-07-2022 20:01)simbun Wrote:  Also, do you want both the 'Audio Type Filter' and 'Podcasts Filter'?

Podcasts is already displayed under "Audio Type Filter".
Therefore, I do not need the category "Podcasts Filter" as a separate object.

(07-07-2022 20:01)simbun Wrote:  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 20:26)simoncn Wrote:  MinimServer translates these names automatically based on the system language setting of the device running MinimServer. By specifying Artist:Album Artist in indexTags instead of just Artist, you have overridden the automatic translation that MinimServer provides.

Thank you for the hint. I have now included the adjustments I wanted to make.

(07-07-2022 20:26)simoncn Wrote:  You can remove this but it will also disable other things that you might want to keep. See this section for detals.

Perfect. That was exactly what I was looking for.

(07-07-2022 20:26)simoncn Wrote:  If you reinstate the All Artists index, do you see the missing artists there?

Yes, all artists will be listed there.
Regardless of which folder they are in and whether they are tagged with COMPILATION=1 or not.

(07-07-2022 20:26)simoncn Wrote:  At the moment I can't think of a way to do this.

OK, that's not a big problem. More of a nice to have.

So far, it really does look very very good!
Thanks to your adjustments, the software even exceeds my expectations.
And I'm slowly getting to grips with the configuration and have to say that customising is really fun.


Attached is the current configuration.