TagFormat is not working properly

[simbun]

(22-01-2023 14:46)ischowam Wrote:  

(21-01-2023 20:59)simbun Wrote:  

(21-01-2023 16:28)ischowam Wrote:  That is e.g. the case in folders with a mix of single files and if for these files the album-tag is not filled.
Example: " -None- [20032002] "

I've tried to replicate this but if my files don't have an album tag then I don't see the album.displayformat at all, only the title.displayformat and the artist tag.

Is there a chance to force Minimserver to display the year anyway even if there is no album-tag, but a year-tag?

You could apply a default value to the album tag if it's empty that would force the displayFormat to work, but it won't fix the scenario where you have multiple dates within the same folder.
If you wanted to apply a default value to album you could use the zero-width unicode space (if you didn't want any label to be offset) or any other text you may want to choose:

Code:

tagValue:album.default={'​'}

A more correct way to do this (which would prevent the 20032004) would be to put the Date into the title.displayFormat (because that's the level the date applies to in this instance), but it would then also show for normal albums as well. If you had a tag that identified the non-album files then we could probably write a tagUpdate script so that it's only shown for non-album files, although it would be a little messy.