Multiple value delimiter

[alan9990]

(14-03-2026 15:06)simoncn Wrote:  In the example you gave at the start (an album with ALBUMARTIST set to Rosemary Clooney|Duke Ellington), how are the ARTIST tags set for this album?

If you have the following:

ARTIST: Rosemary Clooney
ARTIST: Duke Ellington

then MinimServer should show correct results in browsing and searching without any need for you to do large-scale retagging.

Edit: If your Artist tags match the AlbumArtist tags for all your albums, you can show AlbumArtist index values separated with ' / ' instead of '|' by doing the following:

aliasTags: AlbumArtist:nil
tagFormat: AlbumArtist.indexFormat={$artist^^^ / ^}

This tells MinimServer to ignore the AlbumArtist tags in your files and replace them with formatted values derived from your Artist tags.

If you also want to apply the same formatting to AlbumArtist display values, change the above to this:

aliasTags: AlbumArtist:nil
tagFormat: AlbumArtist.indexFormat={$artist^^^ / ^}, AlbumArtist.displayFormat={$artist^^^ / ^}

Again, this is absolutely brilliant! Yes, I have been reading through these sections of the manual, but it's when you use them in a 'real life' case above that I fully understand the value of remapping.

Since I last posted in fact I've seen that indeed by simply remapping Albumartist|Albumartist to Albumartist / Albumartist in fact this achieves exactly what I intended at the outset. Yes, it is an album that has dual Albumartist entries, but in using this same example...

Rosemary Clooney / Duke Ellington shows up when searching for Rosemary Clooney, where it is included in the "albums" results and where it shows dual Albumartist names, and it also shows up when I search for Duke Ellington - and again, under the albums under his name, with the same dual Albumartist listed. This was my intention from the outset!

However, your examples of remapping are very relevant still because I'm currently working on the mess that is my GENRE tagging. And I have now realised that - exactly as was your intention with this software - I have no need to dive in and physically alter my tags. I just need to get creative with the definitions in tagupdate.txt !! It appears to support regex, so although it is still sometimes necessary to perform a full rescan to flush the stale data, I'm really going to put a lot more work into some sane, better organised tag structures.