New User: Date Field Selection

[GregR]

Hi Group,

My next obvious question regards the date field. By way of example, suppose I have The Beatles Revolver tagged with 1966 in the date field (TDRC). If I have a greatest hits CD for The Beatles, I would have 1980 in TDRC and each file would have its' own entry in OriginalDate (TDOR).

I would like MinimServer logic to use TDOR if it exists and if not, use TDRC. I was unable to get this to work with entries in aliasTag, so I am overlooking something.

Or maybe I should have a TDOR entry in every track and just use TDRC for display.

Thoughts and comments are encouraged.

TIA,

Greg

PS On the Classical branch I use TDOR for the date a work was published, to further refine my Era sort.

[simoncn]

(10-03-2016 20:41)GregR Wrote:  I would like MinimServer logic to use TDOR if it exists and if not, use TDRC. I was unable to get this to work with entries in aliasTag, so I am overlooking something.

You can use the 'default' option of the tagValue property for this. See this section for details.

[GregR]

Thanks, Simon, I was looking in the wrong place and tag value is the right place. Since I don't use releaseDate I added this:

minimserver.tagValue = releaseDate.Default\={Date}, releaseDate.Replace\={originalDate}

and this:

minimserver.itemTags = date, originalDate

and to indexTags I included releaseDate:Decade

This works very well and I also get to keep the use of date and originalDate. I think I may be zeroing in on your program, it is very very good software.

Greg

[simoncn]

I'm pleased to hear you you have found a way of doing what you want.

The \= looks like you might be directly editing the minimserver.config file. This is not recommended and is likely to be prevented in a future version.

[GregR]

No, I'm using Minim Watch. Since I tend to modify stuff till it breaks, I was looking to see which file I needed to back up when I posted my reply, so it just happened to be open when I replied.

Greg