Genre tagging: using available tag and order sorting

[alan9990]

(24-03-2026 20:46)simoncn Wrote:  .... and if you have multiple AlbumArtist names, they will all be ignored with a warning message shown in the log.

Right, okay yes - I have FINALLY! understood this part. Apologies.

I have indeed installed Puddletag. Can confirm it's a very nice bit of software, which I can see myself switching to.

But I'm in no way at all about to remove all the dual/multiple "Albumartist" values simply because I have no idea which of the two or three Artists the album should then exist under...

I've been circumspect to always keep to the

Code:

MUSIC/Artist/Album/<filename>

structure, so it would require a massive (massive!) restructuring of the library itself. Again - a complete non-starter.

Even were I to entirely remove all of the thousands of shared "Albumartist" values from the tags, I'd have no clue how to accurately reorder the music files as a result. For example "Ella & Duke At The Côte D'Azur" ... this album is released under both artist names. It would be arbitrary to assign it to one particular artist surely?

So given then that currently ANY album that has shared Albumartist values is being ignored (can confirm this via the log file), do you have any other suggestions?

I was able to verify via Puddletag and a very handy inspection window that all of the correct separators are being used. Thus I have properly separated values. But since I'll be out of my license evaluation period in a couple of weeks... there truly is zero point in using a server that ignores a third of my library, much as I already deeply appreciate the simple "no nonsense" approach that Minimserver takes.