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simbun · 07-07-2022, 15:34

(07-07-2022 13:52)Music-Guy Wrote:

Can the view Album Artist -> be displayed without the index A-Z? So that the artists are displayed directly?

The alphaGroup option instructs MinimServer to only show the A-Z index if there are more than x number of values to present, so if you change the artist value to 'artist=9999' it will only show the A-Z grouping if, when selecting the Artist index, there are more than 9999 unique values returned. You can obviously change albums and items too or remove them completely.

(07-07-2022 13:52)Music-Guy Wrote:

AC/DC is displayed as AC. The artist then says AC, DC

Is this an mp3 file? I assume it's stored as ID3v2.3 which uses '/' as the delimiter for multiple artist values! ID3v2.4 fixes this. I don't think there's much you can do about that other than move to the later standard. If I'm wrong let me know.

(07-07-2022 13:52)Music-Guy Wrote:

Can "All Artists" be hidden? It's kind of redundant because there "Album Artists" already

Yes, just remove 'All Artists,' from indexTags

(07-07-2022 13:52)Music-Guy Wrote:

"Date Added" is not needed

"Audio Quality" is not needed, can the filtering be removed in general?

As above, just remove '-Description:Date Added,' and '#AudioQuality:Audio Quality,' from indexTags.

(07-07-2022 13:52)Music-Guy Wrote:

The display of the quality in the square brackets behind the name of an album is also not needed.

Remove '$#AudioQuality^ [^]' from tagFormat

(07-07-2022 13:52)Music-Guy Wrote:

Under "Genre", if you select a genre, all albums of the genre are displayed directly. Is it possible to switch between sorting by artist? In other words, genre \ artist \ album

If after selecting an index there are less albums remaining than the listViewAlbums setting then MinimServer will take you straight to the Album view. This is at the default 200 and can be changed depending upon how you feel about scrolling vs filtering.
I'm not sure what you mean about sorting, because the current default Album sort is artist, date, album.

(07-07-2022 13:52)Music-Guy Wrote:

Can "Date" be grouped so that the decades are displayed first? E.g. by defining a filter that says all titles whose YEAR-tag starts with 197... are grouped to 1970s.

You can have a filter that shows you the decade, but it won't show you the year straight afterwards. You could obviously have a Decade index and a Year index though. Let me know if you want that, although it would be nice if MinimServer did that by default...

(07-07-2022 13:52)Music-Guy Wrote:

Under "Date", if you select a year, all albums of this year are displayed directly. Is it possible to sort by artist? So ideally decade \ year \ artist \ album

Some of this answer is above, but are you asking to select a decade, then it offer you immediately to select a year, then an artist and finally to view albums? If that's what you're asking then that's the one thing that MinimServer doesn't do, define hierarchies, and as you've found out, it's often quicker not to HAVE to make those steps (because it took you straight to albums and you could scroll through from there).
If you changed listViewAlbums to 1 then it will force you to keep making index selections until there aren't any selections left to make (or you choose n Albums).

(07-07-2022 13:52)Music-Guy Wrote:

Can the newly defined audio types also be displayed directly on the top level?

It can be displayed below the automatic indexes by making it the first item in indexTags, but it can't be displayed above those.

(07-07-2022 13:52)Music-Guy Wrote:

The title display now looks like this: Track number\Track, Duration. Here, only Track is sufficient for me, since number and duration are already displayed in the control point (BubbleUPnP).

Just remove the title.displayFormat={...} from the tagFormat.

(07-07-2022 13:52)Music-Guy Wrote:

With Twonky, it used to be the case that if an album consisted of several CDs, the track number was displayed in ascending order, but then started again at 1 for the next CD. Overall, however, all tracks were displayed in the correct order (based on the CD number) in one view. So I could quickly see where one CD ended and another began. With MimimServer, the track number is displayed continuously in BubbleUPnP, even if the track is already on the next CD. Is it possible to adjust this behaviour?

I think I may be able to force it to state 'Disc %discnumber%' at the top of each disc, assuming you have the tag DiscNumber populated? I'll get back to you on that.

(07-07-2022 13:52)Music-Guy Wrote: Will new audio content be automatically recognised and included in the library, or do I have to manually trigger a rescan after adding new files?

You'd need to perform a scan from MinimWatch, but given you're using BubbleUPnP, if you go to the Devices tab, and select the 3 vertical dots menu you're able to select 'Rescan library'.

Let me know how you get on. I can always make the changes this end, as it probably took me longer to write it than do it :-)