MergeFolderAlbums superfalse option?

[simbun]

Hi Chris,

Firstly, I assume you have a good reason for storing various copies of the music given MimimStreamer can transcode them for you; although this is now going to be a paid addition, so maybe that's a good enough reason?

I too had frustrations with the merging behaviour but for different reasons. I looked at various workarounds (including those mentioned above) but I was happy with my file layout and tagging strategy and didn't want to compromise it just to have it look pretty in the control point.
So, the only way I worked around this is to create a new tag that uniquely identifies what I want to call an album, and then use that in place of album in MinimServer so it can perform the album grouping how I want it to be performed, and then use tag formatting to display the actual album name in the control point.

So in your scenario, I'd:
Create a new tag called ALBUMUNIQID comprised of album||codec||bitrate/sample_rate (or whatever you need)
Then in MinimServer have:
aliasTags: Album:inAlbum,ALBUMUNIQID:Album
itemTags: inAlbum
tagFormat:Album.displayFormat={$inAlbum^^^$#Audioformat^ [^^$#Audiodata^|^]^}

Instead of the actual text values in ALBUMUNIQID I use foobar to CRC the values and create a 10 digit number instead.

Given this tag is easily automated (depending upon what tool you use) for me it was a good compromise.

Happy to help with any tagging queries as I went through a similar exercise myself just over a year ago :-)

Simon