Customising viewing by genre

[GrumpyPatzer]

Hello everyone

I’m new here, having just activated a trial license. I must say, based on having looked at it for just a couple of minutes, I’m already most impressed by MinimServer!

For well over a decade, I have used a *very* old version of Twonky, with a customised version of the view XML files that causes it to present my music collection (mostly classical) in the way I want, which is mainly to use a combination of genre and composer. I have spent (far too …) much time over the years making sure that the tags are how I want them. I believe that the new versions of Twonky does not allow the view to be customised in this way so, for that reason and also because I suspect my (very) old QNAP NAS will, in the not too distant future, call it a day, I thought it worth looking at alternatives.

As I say, my first impression of MinimServer is extremely positive. I can obviously use it on my NAS for now, but may switch to a Pi + SSD in due course. So I have two initial questions.

Firstly, I have noticed a slight difficulty with the way genres are listed in the control point I am using (Kazoo on an iPad). The way I have Twonky configured, if I view by genre, it will simply list the 30 or so genres I use. The thing is that I have quite a few albums tagged with two (or, occasionally, more) genres, separated by a comma, such as “Choral works” and “Live events. So with MinimServer, it seems to list each genre — or combination of genres — separately, whereas I would ideally like it simply to list each of the individual genres and to then show all albums that are tagged with a particular genres, irrespective of whether or not they have a second (or third) genre tag, too.

Does that make sense? Is there any way to achieve this (i.e. to not list combinations of genre when viewing by genre)? I suppose a comma may be a poor choice of separator, but I’d hate to have to change all such instances by hand (just over 300 albums, I think) ….

Secondly (a more minor point), if I select ‘Genre’ from the top-level view, and then select, say, “Symphonies”, is there any way to limit the options that are then presented to, say, <n> albums, composer and date?

Thanks ….
Andrew