Question about the licence model and browsing through music

[Music-Guy]

(08-07-2022 12:52)simbun Wrote:  I actually meant you to do it just on the file that's incorrectly being shown, as the log just lists distinct values from all files, so I don't know which file ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists came from.

(08-07-2022 12:35)Music-Guy Wrote:  Edit
Curiously now in "Artists" both Artists are shown

What! This doesn't make sense :-)
Could you export your config just to make sure we're still using the same index.

OK, here're the logs with just one file that's incorrectly being shown.
And also the current config is use in general.

(08-07-2022 12:55)simoncn Wrote:  Is Andy Rehfeldt tagged as AlbumArtist somewhere? Or tagged as Artist on a file with no AlbumArtist tag?

No, nothing of both.

[simbun]

All of that looks fine.

In foobar's Converter you're able to specify to only output the first 10 seconds of each song (under the 'Other settings' in the Converter Setup), I'm wondering whether it would be worth converting a couple of albums (one including the "problem" file) then pointing MinimServer to just that location to see what happens. If this "fixes" it then it's something to do with the files, if not, then maybe you could upload the shortened versions somewhere so we can try it ourselves?

[Music-Guy]

I have searched for other peculiarities in the problematic audio files and compared them with the files that are displayed correctly:

All files that are displayed correctly have an album name and a track number in the tags.

All files that are displayed incorrectly are missing these two elements.

Unfortunately, I had not noticed this before because I had to realise that I had made a small mistake in the test setup.

So I gave one file a dummy album tag and a dummy track number as a test.
And lo and behold: The track is no longer displayed incorrectly under "Artists"!

How can I get around this without having to create a dummy album or a dummy track number for each track?

[simbun]

I hadn't considered missing albums and track numbers.

Like with any tags you can apply a default by using the option:

Code:

tagValue: Album.default={'Missing Album'}, TrackNumber.default={'01'}

Whether there's a way for it to work "normally" without these though I don't know.
I suppose if it's not an Album, then it can't have an AlbumArtist, maybe.

[Music-Guy]

Yes, that was it!!

Now it looks perfect to me!

And I'm really starting to love the software


Edit:
Not completely perfect yet.

I now want to remove the indexTag Podcasts from the top level so that it only appears under "Audio Type Filter".

And then I want to define more audio types:
Radio Play, Children's Songs and Christmas.
These should then also not appear under "Artist" and "Audio Type Filter" -> "Music".

What other adjustments are necessary for this?

[simbun]

(08-07-2022 17:09)Music-Guy Wrote:  Edit:
Not completely perfect yet.

So close ;-)

(08-07-2022 17:09)Music-Guy Wrote:  I now want to remove the indexTag Podcasts from the top level so that it only appears under "Audio Type Filter".

Remove from indexTags: ', PodcastTag=Podcasts:Podcasts Filter'
Remove from tagValue: ', PodcastTag.default={AudioType}'

(08-07-2022 17:09)Music-Guy Wrote:  And then I want to define more audio types:
Radio Play, Children's Songs and Christmas.
These should then also not appear under "Artist" and "Audio Type Filter" -> "Music".

What other adjustments are necessary for this?

How do you identify those categories?

[Music-Guy]

(08-07-2022 17:32)simbun Wrote:  Remove from indexTags: ', PodcastTag=Podcasts:Podcasts Filter'
Remove from tagValue: ', PodcastTag.default={AudioType}'

OK, that did work

(08-07-2022 17:32)simbun Wrote:  How do you identify those categories?

They all have their categorie as Genre tag.

[simbun]

(08-07-2022 17:35)Music-Guy Wrote:  

(08-07-2022 17:32)simbun Wrote:  How do you identify those categories?

They all have their categorie as Genre tag.

You'd just need to add them to tagUpdate.txt
I've added the Radio Play one here for you:

Code:

@GENRE=Podcast
+AUDIOTYPE=Podcasts
@GENRE=Hörbuch
+AUDIOTYPE=Audio Book
@GENRE=Radio Play
+AUDIOTYPE=Radio Play
@COMPILATION=1
+AUDIOTYPE=Compilations

It's basically saying

# If the GENRE tag is 'Radio Play'
@GENRE=Radio Play

# Add the tag AUDIOTYPE and give it a value of 'Radio Play'
+AUDIOTYPE=Radio Play

[Music-Guy]

I had already done that.
And it also works.

However, the artists are still displayed under "Artist" and "Audio Type Filter" -> "Music".
With audio files tagged with COMPILATION=1, it now works that they are not displayed there.
And this is how it should be for these categories as well.

[simbun]

(08-07-2022 17:42)Music-Guy Wrote:  I had already done that.
And it also works.

However, the artists are still displayed under "Artist" and "Audio Type Filter" -> "Music".
With audio files tagged with COMPILATION=1, it now works that they are not displayed there.
And this is how it should be for these categories as well.

They shouldn't be.
What we're essentially doing is populating a tag called AUDIOTYPE with some values (via tagUpdate.txt) before anything else is processed.
After this we're populating all the remaining files with 'Music' using the setting:

Code:

AudioType.default={'Music'}

So there should be no crossover.

Did you do a restart and rescan?