Creating custom paths based on tags

[simbun]

It can be done, but there are some implications to what you're doing so you may not want to.

The first is that there's only one way to sort tracks (outside of an album track listing that sorts by tracknumber and then title) and that's to use items.sortTags={}, meaning that any time you view a list of tracks outside of an album it will be in the order of Custom4. You could fill the missing values in Custom4 with Title so it will mostly sort correctly (outside of your Top Tracks view), but you will still see the Top Tracks files out of order. I don't think I've ever looked at the '[n] items' list so this wouldn't be a problem for me, unless of course I also wanted Top Tracks of the Decade, which wouldn't be possible because you couldn't sort both correctly (unless the tracks of the year weren't in the tracks of the decade list, which is unlikely).

The second is that you'll need to set listViewAlbums below 10 (assuming that's the minimum number of top tracks per year). This is because if you've made an index selection and the resulting number of albums is below this number it jumps straight to Album view (I guess it would make more sense to only do this if you have complete albums remaining, but that could be a lot of additional processing), and to get the correct ordered track listing we need to view the '[n] items' index listing.


If you're still not put off:
You'd need to change your date field to YYYYMM, or create another with YYYY, or use tagUpdate to change it as YY.MM isn't a valid date format for MinimServer.

Then change the MinimServer configuration to:

Code:

indexTags:Custom1:Top Tracks
itemTags:Custom4
listViewAlbums:9
tagOptions: Custom1.yearOnly.index.sort, items.sortTags={Custom4}

Then when browsing you'd choose 'Top Tracks', make a year selection, and select the '[n] items' index to view the tracks.