Multiple value delimiter

[alan9990]

(14-03-2026 12:46)alan9990 Wrote:  

(14-03-2026 12:44)simbun Wrote:  

(13-03-2026 22:30)alan9990 Wrote:  What I cannot find again is the instructions where it explains how to customise this display...?

I read it a couple of days ago but now cannot find it again. It allows me to set the display from Rosemary Clooney|Duke Ellington to Rosemary Clooney / Duke Ellington as displayed.

It's possible there's an alternative as MinimServer is VERY configurable, but the only way I know to translate Rosemary Clooney|Duke Ellington to Rosemary Clooney / Duke Ellington is to use the tagUpdate functionality:

Code:

@ALBUMARTIST=Rosemary Clooney|Duke Ellington
=ALBUMARTIST=Rosemary Clooney / Duke Ellington

The problem with this approach is that the "artist" Rosemary Clooney / Duke Ellington will appear in the albumartist index and searches.

I've been setting up a MusicBrainz Picard workflow for a friend over the last couple of days (which I might post to the forum in the next couple of days because it works so well with MinimServer) and the solution he's using (same as mine) is:

Tags:

Code:

ALBUMARTIST: Rosemary Clooney; Duke Ellington (multivalued)
DISPLAY ALBUMARTIST: Rosemary Clooney / Duke Ellington

MinimServer config:

Code:

itemTags:Display Albumartist
tagFormat: Albumartist.displayformat={$Display Albumartist}

NOTE: If you don't want to fully populate the display albumartist tag then you'd need to add:

Code:

tagValue: Display Albumartist.default={AlbumArtist}

Then use tagUpdate to remove one of the artists from the album:

Code:

@ALBUMARTIST=Rosemary Clooney
&MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID=01555e07-19fa-4fe4-be62-66dadcf233df
-ALBUMARTIST=Rosemary Clooney

Obviously you lose Rosemary Clooney from the Artist (albumartist) index (she'll still appear under the All Artists index and in searches) but at least she's credited on the album, and the underlying tags are complete.

If you don't have a MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID tag then you'd need to use as many tags as uniquely identify the album e.g. ALBUM + YEAR.

Oh, this is brilliant! Thank you. So much clearer now... Oh, I will be busy today

Just wanted to add: it's only now, when having a music server and the way that the entire streaming ecosystem interacts that I see why certain choices matter when tagging. My (arbitrary, let's call it) decision years ago to split album artists with the | was only so that my player at the time would find content under either album artist. For example suppose I were having a "Duke Ellington day" and I could just plug his name into the player, and off it goes. By that logic, I'd want it to be certain to find his collaborations (e.g. with Ella Fitzgerald).

But... with the way the control point apps work, I realise it doesn't finally matter - because I can search via Artist, Album Artist, or even Folder View, and its own search will pick up all the albums anyway!

Great stuff.