Questions re Database and Indexing

[simoncn]

(23-12-2013 01:08)Andre Gosselin Wrote:  Thanks Simon for having taken time to read me from start to end. I hope you do not take my humble suggestions about the possible changes to the way MinimServer handles multiple values inside MP3 tags as being criticisms on the fantastic software you wrote, and made available for free to all of us. They are just that, suggestions, from a man who spent more than 35 years writing software for the scientific community, and who learned the hard way that sometimes it is reasonable to relax standards a bit if doing so proves helpful to many users, and if this can be done in a controlled way. For example, perhaps a setting enabling special treatment of ";" inside MP3 genre tag could be a solution ? People coming from music servers where this is done may feel here that, on this point, MinimServer is inferior to the solution they currently use. Such a setting could accomodate them nicely, in my humble opinion.

The standard provides the necessary capabilities for tagging multiple genres, and I don't think it's a good idea for MinimServer to provide a flag to support this nonstandard approach as an alternative. From your long post, it is clear that this area is already very complex and confusing, and I am intentionally keeping MinimServer as close as I can to the published standards to avoid any further confusion about the correct way to tag multiple values.

Quote:Anyway, this is not too serious, and I will keep enjoying MinimServer which has now become my server of choice.

Have a nice Christmas.

Andre

Thanks very much, and a very happy Christmas to you as well.