How to handle Artist and Albumartist

[simoncn]

For normal UPnP browsing, the Artist index shows the album artist in preference to track artists. To see all track artists, you can look in the All Artists index.

WMP is not a normal UPnP browser. It loads the complete library from MinimServer and ignores the MinimServer index settings. For artist information, WMP uses whatever it sees in the track metadata, which is the track artist by default.

If you want to send only album artist information in the artist field of the track metadata, you can do this by adding the following to tagFormat:

Artist.displayFormat={$albumartist}

This should do what you want if all your tracks have an ALBUMARTIST tag. If they don't, you will get some tracks with no artist.

There is a different approach that can also cope with tracks without an ALBUMARTIST tag. Instead of doing the above, you can set the tagValue property to:

Artist.replace={AlbumArtist}

This replaces ARTIST tags with ALBUMARTIST tags if both of these are present. If there is no ALBUMARTIST tag, the ARTIST tag is left unchanged.

All the above processing is internal to MinimServer and doesn't change any tags in your files.