The Group tag, more help please.

[simoncn]

(22-07-2014 17:16)beckphotonik Wrote:  Having found that using the Group tag makes playing a complete album impossible with my control point, I have removed Group from the additional item list in MinimWatch. However, the tracks are still grouped together but now appear to be sorted alphabetically by track title. Do I need to include track number in the additional item list to get the tracks back in "album order" or should I just delete all the group tags and accept in my system I will have to do without grouping. This begs the question: what tags are read and acted upon by MinimServer by default i.e. tags that do not have to be identified as an index or additional item?

Did you try BubbleUPnP? It should be able to play albums containing groups on a Chord renderer using gapless playback.

If you have removed Group from the itemTags property, this has no effect on track grouping within albums. The tracks should still be grouped together and they should be sorted by track number order, assuming that they contain TRACKNUMBER tags. This is what I see when I use the Chord app. Is this the control point you are using?

The GROUP and TRACKNUMBER tags are both processed automatically by MinimServer, irrespective of whether or not they appear in itemTags or indexTags. To prevent these tags being processed by MinimServer, you can alias them to nil by using the aliasTags property. For example, to prevent GROUP tags being processed, you can add Group:nil to aliasTags.

Here is the complete list of tags that are processed automatically by MinimServer without appearing in itemTags or indexTags:

ARTIST
ALBUMARTIST
ALBUM ARTIST
TITLE
ALBUM
GROUP
TRACKNUMBER
DISCNUMBER
DISCSUBTITLE