MinimServer / Help Needed / Album vs AlbumArtist
Posted by: Lorenz on 28 July 2013
Hi there,
just started to "like" MinimServer.
Reliability is great but user interface is something I'm having my issued – especially when it gets into "scripting" or things/items/expressions MinimServer handles different from other UPNP servers.
Tried my luck the so called manual but fail to get a decent "AlbumArtist" item/tag/seletion. MinimServer's approach on this does not work for me...*
Would like to have something like
album PLUS albumartist BUT NO compilations
Possible? Can anyone throw me a line (ready for copy & paste) or lead directions to instructions that I could follow without taking NASA or NSA lesseons...?
Cheers,
Lorenz
* from the online manual:
Index tag selection
When MinimServer reads your audio files during startup, it reads and indexes the following tags by default:
Artist, Date, Genre, Composer, Conductor, Orchestra
You can customize MinimServer to read and index a different set of tags by changing the tag names listed in the <code>indexTags</code> property and restarting MinimServer.
The Artist and AlbumArtist tags are indexed specially, as follows:
- The Artist index provides main artist information. It contains AlbumArtist tag values for albums that have this tag and Artist tag values otherwise. This index is included by default and can be excluded by removing Artist from <code>indexTags</code>.
- The All Artists index provides complete artist information. It contains Artist tag values only, not AlbumArtist tag values. This index is included by default and can be excluded by removing All Artists from <code>indexTags</code>.
- The AlbumArtist index contains AlbumArtist tag values only, not Artist tag values. This index is excluded by default and can be included by adding AlbumArtist to <code>indexTags</code>.
If you want to display an index tag with a different name than the tag name in the audio file, you can do this by suffixing the <code>indexTags</code> entry for the tag with a colon followed by the substitute name. For example, to read and index the Composer tag and display it as Komponist, you would use<code>Composer:Komponist</code> as the <code>indexTags</code> entry.
When browsing your library, the list of index tag choices is displayed in the same order that the index tags appear in the <code>indexTags</code> property.