suggestions to customize browsing

[simoncn]

(25-08-2012 18:34)winxi Wrote:  hi, i've quoted this from the linn forums as introduction, as i think that this would be exactly the most straightfoward and flexible way to handle indizes. now i'm used to the conditional artist indexing, but in the beginning it was quite confusing. i would prefer the containers to show exactly what the corresponding tags contain.
i have a vision to customize browsing the following way: a listbox in minimwatch, where you can add and remove tags arbitrarily and the ability to reorder them. minimserver should show only indizes corresponding to these tags in the right order. for each tag in the listbox the following options:

1) map the tag name to an individual name shown in minimserver (this would handle different languages, etc.)

2) assign a tag for sort order (this would make all discussion of different sort orders obsolet) and specify a list of strings which are ignored by the sorting algorithm (e.g. the, los, las, ...)

3) alphagrouping: not only switch on/off, but additionally an integer number of items when alphagrouping applies. i personally want alphagrouping for containers containing 1000 or more items, but definitely not for just 5 items (when you have narrowed down your selection).

4) option to add the number of items in a container in front of its name.

5) if upnp search is available, enable/disable this container for searching.

as the title suggests, please take this as suggestions, and not as requests - i know that this is quite much. i'm still very happy with the current version of minimserver.

cheers, winxi

Item 3 is already available. Please see the release notes for version 0.50 for details of how to specify this.

Thanks for the other suggestions.