Customising viewing by genre

[GrumpyPatzer]

(21-11-2023 17:58)simoncn Wrote:  

(21-11-2023 13:01)GrumpyPatzer Wrote:  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) ….

MinimServer can do exactly this if you have tagged the genres as multiple Genre tags instead of as a single combined string. Each tagging program decides how to support tagging in this way. For example, Mp3tag uses the separator \ for this purpose. Many tagging programs support bulk retagging to handle such cases, so you should not need to edit each tag manually. The same principle also applies to other tags such as Artist.

Thanks, Simon. That’s very helpful. Good of you to reply so quickly.

I rather thought that the way Twonky uses a comma as a separator must be, shall we say, a little eccentric. My mistake for making use of that behaviour in the first place. It seems that Tag Editor Lite, which I use on a Mac, recognises \\ as a separator (a bit like looking at JCL in a mirror ….), so it’s not too onerous to do some large scale find&replaces (I think I’ve only got around 300 albums that are tagged in this way).

Having tried it out on a new (but possibly failing) QNAP NAS, I’m definitely now going to buy a license for MinimServer. The old QNAP NAS that I use most days to stream music, using the old version of Twonky, is over ten years old and I see that it is no longer possible to upgrade the operating system. Would MinimServer v2.2 work on QTS v4.2.6?

Ultimately, though, I suppose it’s time to look for an alternative solution, possibly a Raspberry Pi with an SSD. Although, having said that, we’re about to upgrade our fibre service, so I might force myself to be a bit more adventurous and move my music collection to cloud storage …. . That should be fine if I can access the cloud storage from a Pi without it being too much of a palaver.

Thanks again …. Andrew