questions about artist/composer display on control points

[eseb63]

hello,

i discover MinimServer, and try to use it while remaining compatible with MusiCHI and LMS (i use Squeezeboxes).

Musichi tagger brings some constraints :

• at the contrary of MinimServer, Musichi uses albumartist tag(s) at track level, on this form "LastName, FirstName [instrument]"
• composers have this form "LastName, FirstName (birth-death)"
• by default, it doesn't handle sort tags as all involved performers are filled with a "directly" sortable name
  

for index tags, i prefer like that because showing matches the sort order, but i would like the normal form for display on the control point (i test with Kazoo or Kinsky on Windows 10).

for the first try, i created a new indextag AlbumArtists (Musichi allows to map AlbumArtist tag as AlbumArtists) :

• indexTags : AlbumArtists
• tagValue : Artist.merge={AlbumArtists}
  

i get the artist showing but obviouly with the bad form.

i then tried to transpose the documentation example for reverseName :

• indexTags : AlbumArtists
• itemTags : AlbumArtistsSort
• tagOptions : AlbumArtists.reverseName.display
• tagValue : AlbumArtistsSort.value.sort={AlbumArtists}, AlbumArtistsSort.default={AlbumArtists.custom}, Artist.merge={AlbumArtistsSort}
  

i still get the name form unchanged : what is wrong ?

i finally tried this :

• aliasTags : AlbumArtists:Artist
• indexTags : Artist
• tagOptions : Artist.reverseName.display, Composer.reverseName.display
  

it works for composer display, but is not perfect for artist one as reverseName doesn't handle a suffix "[xxx]" as it is the case for "(xxx)" : might you plan this small enhancement (maybe also for {xxx} and <xxx> for other needs)?

i noticed also that artist doesn't show in the album view for tracks if a work/ group is defined for them : any idea to explain that ?

thanks for the reply