Compilation albums (again)

[SoundAdikt]

Dear all,

A few basic questions if I may concerning compilation albums:

- I've updated the ALBUMARTIST tag to "Various" for all compilation albums
- Is there any way of showing compilations as a category in the Home container and under that showing the albums that are compilations? At present (rightly or wrongly) I have to go in via Album or Artist -> Various

Great product incidentally.

Thanks, SoundAdikt.

[simoncn]

(06-01-2015 19:34)SoundAdikt Wrote:  Dear all,

A few basic questions if I may concerning compilation albums:

- I've updated the ALBUMARTIST tag to "Various" for all compilation albums
- Is there any way of showing compilations as a category in the Home container and under that showing the albums that are compilations? At present (rightly or wrongly) I have to go in via Album or Artist -> Various

Great product incidentally.

Thanks, SoundAdikt.

You can add Compilation to indexTags and select 1 from the Compilation index (assuming you have tagged all your compilations with Compilation=1).

[SoundAdikt]

This works, thank you. Looking at all the tag values and options, I was wondering if it would be possible to skip the 1 after compilation and go straight to the level below using some logic that would move down automatically if COMPILATION tag equals 1. The closest I believe is possible is to use the TagUpdate option:

@COMPILATION=1=COMPILATION=Press here

Thanks, SoundAdikt.

[DavidHB]

(09-01-2015 13:18)SoundAdikt Wrote:  I was wondering if it would be possible to skip the 1 after compilation and go straight to the level below using some logic that would move down automatically if COMPILATION tag equals 1. The closest I believe is possible is to use the TagUpdate option:

@COMPILATION=1=COMPILATION=Press here

I suspect that Simon will answer that this is not possible. The whole point of the 'Intelligent browsing' which is the core of the way MinimServer works is that browsing options are generated 'on the fly' at each browsing node, so it is not possible to specify in advance that a node should be skipped.

There are other approaches to the issue. One is, for all your compilations, to put the word 'Compilation' in one of the tags that UPnP search addresses - probably Album. A Search will then find all your compilations. This does require that your Control Point supports UPnP Search, and not all do.

Another approach is to move all your Compilation albums to a folder called 'Compilations'. I do this in my library, at least in the Classical section which is the bulk of my collection. Within the 'Classical' folder at the top level most albums go into composer folders, but I also have '_Compilations' and '_Recitals' for albums that cannot be attributed to one composer. With an arrangement like this, it is possible to use folder view to browse your albums, and then switch to Tag view within the Compilations folder if you want to, say, filter the view by artist.

These approaches can sit alongside each other and with the approach using the Compilation tag, and so give you a range of ways of accessing the compilation albums.

I hope this is of interest.

David

[simoncn]

(09-01-2015 13:18)SoundAdikt Wrote:  This works, thank you. Looking at all the tag values and options, I was wondering if it would be possible to skip the 1 after compilation and go straight to the level below using some logic that would move down automatically if COMPILATION tag equals 1. The closest I believe is possible is to use the TagUpdate option:

@COMPILATION=1=COMPILATION=Press here

Thanks, SoundAdikt.

I understand why you're asking for this, but I'm reluctant to start building in special logic for particular tag names (such as Compilation) or particular tag values (such as "1" or "Press here"). There might be other possible solutions for this and I will add it to the list of requested enhancements to be considered for a future version of MinimServer.

[SoundAdikt]

Understand what your saying, but regardless, I appreciate your help and ideas. I've made a donation incidentally, this is a great product.