Suggestion to avoid mandatory steps when browsing

[simoncn]

(15-08-2012 20:30)winxi Wrote:  I also agree, as it is the natural expectation of the user that a tag-based server neglects the folder structure and filenames. I believe that there are many different folder structures used by different users, and some of them don't necessarily put a whole album into one single folder.

But I definately agree that it is important to split different albums which have the same album name incidentally.

Maybe it would be better to do it vice versa and use a [split] string in the foldername to indicate that this folder should be treated as a separate album instead of [part] indicating to merge folders. This would meet the users expectation and i think that [split] would be used in far less cases than [part].

Users who need [split] would consider it as a feature whereas users who don't need [split] wouldn't care.
With [part] users who don't care or just don't know about it (like me before) might consider this as a bug.

This makes sense to me, and it ties in well with another existing MinimServer feature: match filters. Instead of adding '[split]' to keep two albums with the same name separate, the user could add a match filter to the folder name of one of the albums.

A match filter is a string of the form ['filtername'] where filtername is any value chosen by the user. If a folder has a match filter, the tracks in that folder will be merged only with tracks in other folders that have the same match filter.