Suggestion to avoid mandatory steps when browsing

[simoncn]

(16-08-2012 10:43)mikejazz Wrote:  One example: is it so uncommon? There is the example of "Ballads".
I checked for "Ballads" in my collection and MinimServer is already doing a good job: I have "Ballads" from John Coltrane, from Miles Davids and from Dexter Gordon.

Now, I thought the reason for MinimServer to present them correctly separated is because it checks that the Artists are different....But apparently is because the files are in different folders (in my case, stored according to the "Artist > Album" rule in JMRC).

I believe it would be feasible to apply a rule: IF several albums with same name AND Artist is different > Split.

At the moment, the scanning rules are:

1) For a single-disc album without the [part] marker in the folder name, assume the album is contained within a single folder.

2) For a multi-disc album, or for a single-disc album with the [part] marker in the folder name, apply the merging rules.

The merging rules are:

Tracks with the same album name from different folders are merged if:

a) the artist is the same (this is the AlbumArtist value if present, or else it is the Artist value if all tracks have the same Artist tag)

and:

b) if a match filter is present on any of the folders, it must be present and identical on all the folders