A couple of queries from a Newbie.

[Pastim]

I have only just discovered MinimServer. What a great piece of software! I got the server installed on my Vortexbox and MinimWatch on my desktop in no time. Most importantly it even supports bespoke tags, which is essential for my classical collection.

I have been trying to avoid UPnP having had grim experiences in the past with various bits of incompatible kit and software. However, MinimServer makes it almost usable as my premier playing method, except for a few puzzles. Forgive me if they have been answered elsewhere already. I have looked.

1. I have multiple renderers. One can process 192Khz flacs/wavs, one can't. Is there any chance the transcoding might in future include 'downgrading' where necessary?

2. I cannot get the multiTag feature to work for Genre or Artist. For Genre and Artist the multiple values are always split (so even if I enter

Code:

-Genre.display.multiTag

they are still split). However, I don't know if this being done by MinimServer or my Controller (leia or foobar2000) and/or Renderers. What am I missing?

3. The multiple AlbumArtist issue, which I see has been done to death on these pages, is something of a pain. I currently use Squeezebox (LMS) and foobar2000 as players. Both of these allow me to use the tags I have set up (using puddletag) as below:

- The premier artists on all tracks in the Album: the AlbumArtist
- The premier artists on all tracks (movements) in a (classical) Work (a bespoke tag): the WorkArtist (includes the above)
- All artists on each track: Artist (includes the above)

When searching I use whichever is appropriate to what I want to find, and I do use each of them from time to time.

However, with MinimServer I get:

- errors on the log (as expected) for multiple AlbumArtists x and y
- the multiple AlbumArtist entries are both missing from the AlbumArtist index
- the combined AlbumArtist entries (separated by a comma, as x, y) are present in the Artist index
- the individual entries duplicated in AlbumArtist and Artist are not present in the Artist index

This combination is very confusing, since I have have lost the individual entries in Artist and the entries in AlbumArtist. Luckily for classical I can fall back on WorkArtist, but the combination of what works and what doesn't is difficult to work with. I appreciate that multiple AlbumArtist tags may give processing headaches, but I was hoping that they might get combined (x, y) just under the AlbumArtist index, and that it would then be possible to treat the combination as one of the items identifying the whole Album. I don't want to give up on my tagging scheme since it works well elsewhere.

Is there another solution?