Setting up browsing hierarchy

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MinimServer uses "intelligent browsing" (see the Features page) to construct the browsing hierarchy. This shows a hierarchy based on available tags and previous selections. In some cases this might show more tag choices than you need for your preferred approach to browsing. For example, you cannot force an Artist choice to appear after a Genre choice and before an album choice.

With this approach it isn't possible to exclude tags, so the only way to exclude files tagged as Classical is to add a tag such as "nonClassical" to all your files not tagged as Classical. This is possible in MinimServer (without needing to modify your files) by doing the following:

1) Create a tag update file (see the Tag update section) containing the following:
@GENRE=Rock
@GENRE=Pop
@GENRE=Jazz
....repeat for all non-classical genres in your library....
+NONCLASSICAL=1
2) Put the path to this file in the tagUpdate property
3) Add nonClassical=1 to the indexTags property
4) Restart MinimServer

You will now see an additional index selection "nonClassical" that allows you to select only non-classical files and albums.

It isn't possible to remove the “n albums” and “n items” index entries from the home container.

MinimServer treats Work and Movement just like any other tags. It is up to the control point (for example, JPLAY) to assign any semantics to these tags. The Group tag is different in that it is treated specially by MinimServer as described in the Groups and works section.

Edited: changed +nonClassical=1 (in tag update file) to +NONCLASSICAL=1