Display Format Tagging Syntax

[pzyvbv]

Hi

I didn't explain it very well.

For a boxset I have used the $DiscSubtitle tag as part of the Album.displayFormat. So this display text is generated at the album level and will include all the values of $DiscSubtitle tag it finds for all tracks in that album, so all the album titles in the box set are listed as part of the album text delimited by the specified seperator. So at the album level there are multiple occurrences of the $DiscSubtitle.

This is different to effectively concatenating 2 tags within a single format item and using the seperator between the 2 tags. This concatenated tag (format item) could then be used at a level higher than the raw item (track) and may present multiple values similar to $DiscSubtitle. If this were to be the case then it is possible that a different delimiter is required.

An example might perhaps be that for a boxset as part of the Album.displayFormat you want the album name (boxset name) followed by each individual $DiscSubtitle and the date of that disc.

This would be something like:
Album.displayFormat={$Album^^^$DiscSubtitle$Date^ - ^^, }

My point (assuming what I have said so far is correct!) is that the seperator between $DiscSubtitle and $Date would be ", " and this would also have to be the seperator between the each occurence of $DiscSubtitle$Date at the album level.

So we would have:
boxsetname - discsubtitlea, 1980, discsubtitleb, 1981, discsubtitlec, 1982
whereas we might actually want:
boxsetname - discsubtitlea: 1980, discsubtitleb: 1981, discsubtitlec: 1982

Hopefully this is clearer....but it may also be wrong!

C

On a side note I have mergeFolderAlbums set to false, but MinimServer is still merging boxsets so I end up with one boxset, and one set of albums in the boxset, and the track on every boxset album is repeated once from each boxset...? Normal albums (not boxsets) work fine and are not merged.

Should I raise this elsewhere?