New Tag - #AudioDuration

[knirpslinn]

I suppose it's very wishful thinking on my part, but can the new #AudioDuration tag be used to display track times in Linn Kazoo? I don't know why Linn has chosen to drop this information in Kazoo, but I'd love to get it back.

[antonmb]

Not wishful at all, it works a charm. Find instructions in this thread on the Linn forum.
track duration
Here's a Kazoo screenshot:

[ChrisByrd]

This is excellent - I used the instructions on the Linn forum to display duration against tracks in the Naim app on my iPad.

Many thanks to all.

[AdamWysokinski]

(07-02-2016 14:27)ChrisByrd Wrote:  This is excellent - I used the instructions on the Linn forum to display duration against tracks in the Naim app on my iPad.

Many thanks to all.

I agree, this is excellent. My question is: can this be used for album duration as well?

Currently my Album.displayFormat is {$album^$date^ [^]}

[simoncn]

(24-02-2016 00:09)AdamWysokinski Wrote:  I agree, this is excellent. My question is: can this be used for album duration as well?

Currently my Album.displayFormat is {$album^$date^ [^]}

The current implementation of all these special tags is based on individual audio files and it wouldn't be very easy to extend it to a complete album.

[tarnkappe]

In the linn forum the thread opener writes "and added #AudioDuration to indexTags". What is the purpose of this?

[tarnkappe]

First minimserver did throw an error

incorrect tag name '#AudioDuration' in option 'title.displayFormat' in property 'tagFormat

It is really complicated, I think I have to take more time to read the documentation in more detail. After creating a new property itemTags and adding "#AudioDuration", it did work. Now I see track times in the naim app. Great

Now I have to study what itemTags and indexTags are all about.

[simoncn]

(04-03-2016 22:12)tarnkappe Wrote:  First minimserver did throw an error

incorrect tag name '#AudioDuration' in option 'title.displayFormat' in property 'tagFormat

It is really complicated, I think I have to take more time to read the documentation in more detail. After creating a new property itemTags and adding "#AudioDuration", it did work. Now I see track times in the naim app. Great

Now I have to study what itemTags and indexTags are all about.

This is described in the MinimServer user guide. See this section, this section and this section.

[tarnkappe]

So to be able to use a tag somewhere in the properties configuration (for formatting a title or specifying the sort order) it has to be initialised first. This is done either by putting it into the indexTags or into the itemTags. The difference between these two is that an entry in indexTags also generates a menu entry (a folder) in the navigation structure, and an entry in itemTags does not. Is this correct?

[simoncn]

(05-03-2016 13:01)tarnkappe Wrote:  So to be able to use a tag somewhere in the properties configuration (for formatting a title or specifying the sort order) it has to be initialised first. This is done either by putting it into the indexTags or into the itemTags. The difference between these two is that an entry in indexTags also generates a menu entry (a folder) in the navigation structure, and an entry in itemTags does not. Is this correct?

Yes, except that I would say that the tag needs to be read from the file rather than being "initialised". Some control over this is needed because many audio files contain tags that should not be read by the server and it could cause problems if the server were to always read all tags in the file.

I am considering a change in the future where using a tag name in any property would automatically cause MinimServer to read the tag from the file. With this change, it would not be necessary to have the itemTags property.