Tagging of Soloists

[schipa]

Hi,

I tag the soloists in my classical albums with various tags names (e.g. "Pianist", "Violinist", "Cellist"...) corresponding to their classification for easy browsing. To avoid showing a long list of tag names for soloists in the home container, I would like to show only "Soloists" tag in the home container which I am able to browse individual soloist with such browsing sequence: "Soloists" > "Pianist", "Violinist", "Cellist"... > pianist 1, pianist 2..

I tried to merge all the soloist's tag using Soloists.merge={Pianist, Violinist, Cellist,...} in tagvalue, but it turns out that the the resulted "Soloists" tag contains individual soloist's names (pianist 1, pianist 2, violinist 1,...) instead of soloist's tag ("Pianist", "Violinist", "Cellist"...).

Could you please share with me how I can achieve this? Many thanks!!

[simbun]

(14-02-2023 15:49)schipa Wrote:  I tried to merge all the soloist's tag using Soloists.merge={Pianist, Violinist, Cellist,...} in tagvalue, but it turns out that the the resulted "Soloists" tag contains individual soloist's names (pianist 1, pianist 2, violinist 1,...) instead of soloist's tag ("Pianist", "Violinist", "Cellist"...).

Hi schipa,

Soloists.merge={Pianist, Violinist, Cellist} does exactly as you describe, it merges the tag values from Pianist, Violinst and Cellist into the Soloists tag, de-duplicating where necessary, so that if each tag had one unique value before the merge, Soloist would contain 4 values afterwards.

(14-02-2023 15:49)schipa Wrote:  To avoid showing a long list of tag names for soloists in the home container, I would like to show only "Soloists" tag in the home container which I am able to browse individual soloist with such browsing sequence: "Soloists" > "Pianist", "Violinist", "Cellist"... > pianist 1, pianist 2..

I don't quite follow the logic of the browsing sequence you've given (I'm not sure how UPnP browsing would let you select pianist 1 and pianist 2 at the same time), but I think you're asking for the ability to be able to define a drill hierarchy, where you would select Solists, and it would prompt you to select a Pianist, then a Violinist, then a ..., rather than have to select the Soloist index, make a selection, then select the Pianist index and make a selection, then select the Cellist index e.t.c.
If that's what you're after then I'm afraid that's not possible in MinimServer.

[schipa]

Hi Simbun,

Thanks for your reply.

Sorry I believe I didn't express it clearly. What I would like to browse is like this:

1. Soloists tag will be shown in the Minimserver's home container;
2. When I select the Soloists tag, it will display a list of tag choices like Pianist, Violinist, Cellist...;
3. If I select a tag choice such as Pianist, then it will show all available artists that are tagged as Pianist.

Could you please share with me how I can achieve this!

Thousand thanks,
schipa

[simbun]

(15-02-2023 17:19)schipa Wrote:  Sorry I believe I didn't express it clearly.

It's my fault, I've never seen such functionality (at least with UPnP) so I mapped it to the closest that I have. Have you seen this functionality elsewhere?

(15-02-2023 17:19)schipa Wrote:  What I would like to browse is like this:
1. Soloists tag will be shown in the Minimserver's home container;
2. When I select the Soloists tag, it will display a list of tag choices like Pianist, Violinist, Cellist...;
3. If I select a tag choice such as Pianist, then it will show all available artists that are tagged as Pianist.

Unfortunately there's no way of doing this. I know you were trying to avoid listing them all in the home container but that's the only option.

[schipa]

(15-02-2023 19:00)simbun Wrote:  

(15-02-2023 17:19)schipa Wrote:  Sorry I believe I didn't express it clearly.

It's my fault, I've never seen such functionality (at least with UPnP) so I mapped it to the closest that I have. Have you seen this functionality elsewhere?

No worries I am so happy with your help. BTW I am not aware of any other uPnP servers that have this function

(15-02-2023 19:00)simbun Wrote:  

(15-02-2023 17:19)schipa Wrote:  What I would like to browse is like this:
1. Soloists tag will be shown in the Minimserver's home container;
2. When I select the Soloists tag, it will display a list of tag choices like Pianist, Violinist, Cellist...;
3. If I select a tag choice such as Pianist, then it will show all available artists that are tagged as Pianist.

Unfortunately there's no way of doing this. I know you were trying to avoid listing them all in the home container but that's the only option.

Well noted thanks!!