Any way to exclude views from controlpoint?

[DavidHB]

(20-12-2013 15:46)lo0p Wrote:  Used MiniDLNA a while but this server has, in my configuration, problems scanning my library.

Pity, that. I use ReadyDNLA, which is simply MiniDNLA branded by Netgear (and with proper DNLA membership, which MiniDNLA, now renamed, does not have); it has always worked well for me, within the usual DNLA limitations.

Quote:As I need a server for music files only winxi pointed me to MinimServer. And.. I like it, small, flexible and fast (even it's written in java ^^). While reading the specs I also liked the flexibility in id-tags and talking about flexibility, I really would like to see to exclude features I do not need.

I'd agree with all of that.

Quote:The facts... MinimServer reports, based on the id-tagging, to my controlpoints:

- 6046 albums (not true, a lot of my single files are counted as a album even if they belong together and are in the same directory)
- 60528 items
- 554 playlists

Please try to find a specific track or album based on these informations, nearly impossible ... The only escape is folderview as, for over 10 years now, I sort my files in way like "genre > artist > "year - albumname"" on my discs.

Well, you do make your point . I wonder how many collections there are with this kind of metadata tangle - rather a lot, I'd guess.

I think that, in your position, I'd at least try to fix the album and artist listing issues, not least because that would make winxi's suggested use of alphaGroup rather attractive in your case. For that, if you use Windows, MP3Tag is the obvious tool. It can handle files in sub-folders of the target folder, so you could work simultaneously with all the albums of a particular artist for example.

To have tracks indexed as a single album, the Album name and AlbumArtist tags must be the same on all tracks. In the MP3Tag grid you can select all the tracks which must have the same data, and either enter that data in the relevant field(s) or simply select from the drop down(s) provided by MP3Tag one of the variants already entered for particular tracks. MP3Tag also provides usable and powerful filtering and search and replace functions. With facilities of this kind, large numbers of tracks can be corrected simultaneously, and the process of untangling the metadata starts to become feasible.

MP3Tag can also be used to blank out metadata. Empty fields will not be indexed, so it is often better to have no entry than wrong or inconsistent data.

I hope these thoughts help.

David