Kinsky & Minimserver - some new user questions

[simoncn]

(11-12-2012 21:42)whgmkeller Wrote:  It must be me, but I just don't understand.

You suggest that I use a Style tag and add it in my files. But is this supposed to be a custom filed? Will I, by doing this, not introduce incompatibility with other music programs such as iTunes?

How does this compare to using the Grouping field, which IS described as a standard field/tag in the ID3 specs? I believe most music programs will be able to use this?

If I take the second route, which field should I enter in the indexTags field in the Minimserver properties?

Sorry if this takes up your time, but I would really like to understand what best to do to get this working.

Cheers, Willem

You said in a earlier post that your music is stored in m4a files. These don't use ID3 tags, so any discussion of ID3 fields such as TIT1 isn't relevant to your situation.

There is an iTunes Grouping tag. This has been used by people for many different purposes. Its original purpose (apparently) was to group together multiple tracks from the same musical work, such as the movements of a symphony. (MinimServer uses the GROUP tag for this purpose.) Because the semantics of iTunes Grouping and MinimServer GROUP don't match exactly, MinimServer currently ignores the iTunes Grouping tag. (In an earlier version of MinimServer, the iTunes Grouping tag was mapped to GROUP, but this caused problems for some iTunes users.)

The best advice I can give you is my previous answer. You should be able to add a Style tag to an m4a file using Jaikoz and view it using MinimServer. As far as I know, this should work, but the only way to find out for certain is to try it.

If you try this with a test file, you'll also be able to see if it causes any problems with iTunes. I'm not an iTunes user, so I can't be sure how iTunes would handle a Style tag. My guess is that iTunes would ignore any custom tags that it doesn't recognise, but the only way to find out for certain is to try it.