TagFormat is not working properly

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(05-01-2023 19:45)ischowam Wrote:  If all have the same album-name and all files have different tags, the year is not displayed.

Assuming that you mean different TRACKNUMBERs and TITLEs when you say 'different tags' then this is how albums should be stored (one CD per folder), it's how I store all mine and it's working fine for me.

(05-01-2023 19:45)ischowam Wrote:  An interesting example:
All files have the same album-name.
Two files have exactly the same tags, but different files names (I wrongly tagged hidden files in the same way as the last unhidden track) > year is displayed

Do you mean they have the same tags except the TITLE tag?

(05-01-2023 19:45)ischowam Wrote:  After correcting the tag of the hidden file, so that all files have different tags > year is not displayed anymore

Unless I'm mistaken you're saying:
one folder
all share same album name, album artist and date
different track numbers and titles

If that's the case, then it's back to how I store all my music and it works for me.

Seems like there's a lot of moving parts here, the best thing to do (for help here or on the BubbleUPnP forum) would be to create an album with just a few tracks that exhibits this behaviour and then export the relevant tags to a txt file so one can replicate the scenario.
If you've got ffmpeg installed you could do that from the command line with:

Code:

cd [directory of music files]
del minim_tags.txt 2>nul
for %f in (*.flac) do (
  echo ## %f >> minim_tags.txt
  ffprobe -v warning -show_entries "format_tags=ALBUM_ARTIST,ALBUM,DISC,TRACK,TITLE,DATE" -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 "%f" >> minim_tags.txt
)

This assumes ffmpeg/ffprobe is in your PATH, otherwise you will need to prefix ffprobe with the path.
I'm only outputting the relavant tags but that can be extended if you think other tags are pertinent.

Or, if you can create truncated versions of the files (using foobar2000, sox e.t.c.) then you can put them on a fileshare somewhere.