Questions about tag formatting limitations

[simoncn]

displayFormat is used for tags that correspond to UPnP properties sent by MinimServer to the control point in DIDL-Lite (album, artist, title, etc.) There is no DIDL-Lite property corresponding to Work.

A user might want the Work index to show more than just the Work name. For example, they might want to see Artist names as well. They can do this by setting these properties:

aliasTags: Work:WorkTag
itemTags: WorkTag
tagFormat: Work.indexFormat={$worktag^$artist^ [^]}

This produces a single Work index entry showing the work name and all artist names for this performance of the work. This is what most users would want to see.

This works well if all files have a Work tag but not so well if some files don't have this tag. These files will have an entry in the Work index showing artists but without a work name. I am considering what can be done about this.