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Andre Gosselin · 21-12-2013, 15:49

(21-12-2013 10:27)winxi Wrote:
(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?

Hi Winxi,
I do not think I ever saw a reference to the use of semicolon separated lists in the MinimServer user guide, and I think it would be worth mentionning. This feature applies also to the GENRE tag, where I find it particularly helpfull because you do not have to worry anymore about the ordering of the entries in the tag (eg, GENRE="piano;violin;cello;trio", "trio;violin;cello;piano", etc will generate the same entries in the browse tree).

As for my "tagging" software, I do most of it with MediaMonkey (which is much more than a tagging program: MM is a full-featured music manager). I also use foobar200 to set some specialized tags (like DISCSUBTITLE) which cannot be easily handled with MM.

Regards, and a merry Christmas to you all