Advice / Suggestions on Tools / Techniques to manage NAS based music library

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(09-11-2022 16:32)zym1010 Wrote:  The file order probably can be controlled by having more virtual tags added.

I tried to do something similar last year. My goal was to have playlists integrated into the standard AlbumArtist/Album indexes rather than simply as a flat list of names, by writing a script that parsed an m3u and generated the tagUpdate script from it.

One of the blockers I found was that although yes you can create another tag to order the tracks, the only way you can present your playlist (as a list of tracks) is by utilising the '[n] items' index. To utilise the '[n] items' index though you need to set listViewAlbums to 0 otherwise it will jump to album view too soon (assuming tracks are from a number of albums) - which obviously affects "normal" browsing - and whilst this does let you control the order through [items].sortTags={} it will still be incorrect if a track belongs to multiple playlists.

I gave up at that point, but if anyone knows another way (or if I've missed something).