Kinsky & Minimserver - some new user questions

[simoncn]

(08-02-2013 09:44)whgmkeller Wrote:  Hi there. I'm still exploring how best to group my music in Genres and Subgenres. You've informed me that Minimserver does not (currently?) support the iTunes Grouping field and have advised me to add another tag field to my music files and have Minimserver create an index for that.

So now I am looking how to do just this. I use Apple Losseless, stored in .m4a files.

I plan on creating an index "group" for that with "broad values" such as "Jazz", and use the Genre index for more detailed divisions. For example, music from Miles Davis will be indexed as part of the "Jazz" Group and have "Post-Bop" (or maybe "Jazz \\ Post-Bop") as Genre.

I use Jaikoz to tag my music. In Jaikoz there is the possibility to use a number of custom fields. There is this Jaikoz field "custom 1" that I plan to use for grouping purposes. From the Jaikoz developer I have learned that Jaikoz actually uses "a reverse dns atom:
----:com.apple.iTunes:CUSTOM1" to store information in the Jaikoz "custom 1" field.

So now I think that all I need to do know is have Minimserver create an index on this ----:com.apple.iTunes:CUSTOM1 field? Only thing is, I really have no clue how to do this....

From your User Guide I understand that I need to add another field in the Index Tags in Properties, but I'm not sure what info I should enter there.

Do I just enter Custom1? Or do I need to enter ----:com.apple.iTunes:CUSTOM1 (including the ----: at the beginning?)

Thanks again for helping me out :-)

Greetz, Willem

To index the ----:com.apple.iTunes:CUSTOM1 tag in MinimServer, you should enter Custom1 in indexTags. You can optionally rename the index entry for the Custom1 tag by entering Custom1:Grouping (for example).

In the next release of MinimServer, I'm planning to add support for some additional ID3v2 and iTunes tags. This includes iTunes Grouping, which will be mapped to CONTENTGROUP. This won't conflict with the existing MinimServer usage of the GROUP tag.

It seems the normal usage of iTunes Grouping is to represent a subgenre that is more specific than the Genre tag value. See for example this article. You're planning to do the opposite and add a new broader category than the Genre value. Both approaches should work with MinimServer, but you might want to consider adopting the more conventional approach of using Grouping for the subgenre.