Folder aggregation in Folder view

[Skywatcher]

Hello Simon,

First of all, congratulations on the awesome work with minimserver/minimstreamer, happy user here.

The thread subject is not very descriptive but couldn't think of a better one.
I have a feature suggestion that I have no idea on how easy it'd be to implement or even how much interest would there be from other people on having it. Anyway, it doesn't hurt to ask.

I use mainly Folder view since I have my collection hierarchically organised in paths like music/classical/composer/album/tracks or music/world/artist/album/tracks and I don't have such good tagging (It's an objective but it's going to take a long time). I felt the need to separate the several genres (and even rock into A-M and N-Z between the genre and the artist) because a folder with a lot of subfolders was just making my HDD very sluggish whenever it was trying to list the contents. So with minimserver or any other server I had to keep waiting for a long time when I wanted to list the artists folders. Since I separated them it's a lot faster listing everything.

The problem is, as you can imagine, that now in folder view I see several folders (genres) and inside the biggest genres I then see alphabetical division, and only then the artists (and only the ones that stat with those letters).
I use another application to have access to my music from work (not a DLNA/UPnP server) that gives me access to my music and then streams it in MP3 all via web browser. It's not what I want at home, obviously, but I only refer it here because it has this very nice feature that it only lists the directories/folders from the point that I selected onwards.
I.e., if I select to share:
music/classical/ and
music/world and
music/rock/A-M and
music/rock/N-Z

the only thing I see in Folder view is a big list with all the composers and artists, because it only lists from that share point onwards, hence I see the subfolders inside each one of those 4 folders all in a single list.

If I did the same in minim server (and I did ) I would get 4 folders (classical, world, A-M and N-Z). In order to have that single list I'd have to add each artist/composer folder to the contentDir fields through minimwatch which would be kind of crazy.

I don't know if I was clear, if not, please ask and I'll re-write it in some other way. I don't know if you'd have any interest on implementing it, but if you did, I'd really appreciate it.

Cheers,