Questions re Database and Indexing

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(21-12-2013 00:13)Andre Gosselin Wrote:  I think I disagree with what has just been said about the possibility of separately indexing artist names listed together in a single ARTIST tag. In fact, you can!

I have numerous tracks where the ARTIST tag holds many artist names separated by semi-colons (eg "ARTIST=Brendel, Alfred; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Levine, James"). In minimserver config, "All Artists" is included inside the "indexTags" property. Each artist is then listed individually in the minimserver browse tree under the "All Artists" index. This has been tested with many control points (BubbleUPnP, UPnPlay, MediaHouse among them).

Setting ARTIST tag to a semi-colon separated list of artist names is a convention used by other music servers (like MediaMonkey, Foobar2000). MinimServer does the same. This convention allows a much more natural and convenient way to handle a long artist list than entering one ARTIST tag for each individual artist.

I am not sure however if the same result can be achieved if comma-separated (as opposed to semicolon-separated) lists of artist names are used. Changing commas for semicolons inside tags over a selection of tracks can be easily done using the MediaMonkey regexp extension. Other tools should exist to achieve the same task.

Regards

Hi Andre, thanks for this interesting information, I didn't know that MinimServer automatically separates ARTIST tag entries at semicolons. Is there a reference in the MinimServer user guide? Which tagging program do you use?