Change only Now Playing display without changing library

[lostinsound]

Right now I have everything how I like it in my library as far as how it displays albums and disc subtitles. Is there any way to change how the album is displayed only in Now Playing without affecting how it's displayed in the library?

Basically I would like it to display Album (DiscSubtitle) for the track that is playing only in Now Playing. I tried to change the album display to include DiscSubtitle using Album.displayFormat but it only changes it in the library and it lists every subtitle that an album has. I have a feeling this might not be possible but thought I'd check.

[simoncn]

The Now Playing display is produced by the control point using the same metadata for albums, discs and tracks that is shown by the control point when browsing the library.

This means that changes to displayFormat settings will affect what you see in browsing as well as what you see in Now Playing.

You should be able to use displayFormat to add a single subtitle to each track without adding multiple subtitles to the album name, like this:

Title.displayFormat={$title^$discsubtitle^ (^)}

[lostinsound]

I thought that might be the case, thanks. I'll play around with it some more. Although I can't seem to get it working with Album.displayFormat like I was before. I swear I'm putting in the same thing I was before but no subtitles are showing up now. Does this look correct?

Album.displayFormat={$album^^^$discsubtitle}

[simoncn]

This should produce albumdiscsubtitle with no space between album and discsubtitle. If you want album (discsubtitle), use this:

Album.displayFormat={$album^^^$discsubtitle^ (^)}

You also need to have Discsubtitle in either itemTags or indexTags and you need to restart MinimServer after changing tagFormat settings.

Edit: The above setting doesn't work as I described. See post #6.

[lostinsound]

(26-07-2024 20:35)simoncn Wrote:  This should produce albumdiscsubtitle with no space between album and discsubtitle. If you want album (discsubtitle), use this:

Album.displayFormat={$album^^^$discsubtitle^ (^)}

You also need to have Discsubtitle in either itemTags or indexTags and you need to restart MinimServer after changing tagFormat settings.

It's weird, the suggestion you gave for formatting the title in your first reply works fine with the subtitles showing up, but I copied this one for the album in exactly and nothing changes in the library. I swear I got it to work before but now it's not. I'm not sure if when I did it previously was before the latest update or not. I'm on 2.2 update 253. I'll keep playing around with it.

[simoncn]

I have looked at the code that implements this. The $discsubtitle value isn't supported for a top-level multidisc album, only for each album disc individually. You can use it to customise the album name that is shown by the control point when playing a track from a disc of a multidisc album.

My apologies for posting incorrect information about this. I will correct my earlier post.