Question about the licence model and browsing through music

[simbun]

(08-07-2022 23:19)Music-Guy Wrote:  I have already done a short test by changing the Artist to AlbumArtist for two radio plays and changing Artist:Artist to AlbumArtist:Album Artist in the indexTags.

This then displays under "Album Artist" what was previously displayed under "Audio Type Filter".
However, I still cannot filter by Artist when selecting Radio Plays.

I didn't tell you to change AlbumArtist for Radio Plays just for your Music albums.

Let's start afresh.

Can you copy Artist to AlbumArtist for your Music albums only. This should result in ALL your Compilations having 'Various Artists' in AlbumArtist and your Music albums should have the value from Artist copied across, all the other categories should be empty.

I've changed your profile to instead use the index AlbumArtist:Interpret.
If you select this before selecting any Audio Filter you'll see all your Music AlbumArtist values, 'Various Artists' coming from your Compilations and '[unknown]' because all your other files don't have a value for AlbumArtist. This value can't be changed and is MinimServer's way of telling you that there is missing information in the index.
After you've selected an AudioFilter the Interpret index will disappear for all but Music Albums.

I've added to indexTags 'All Artists:Track Artists' (rename as you wish).
Selecting this index will list all of the values from Artist (and only the Artist tag, not from AlbumArtist).
Because you've put guest artists in the Title tag for your music files the lists for AlbumArtist and All Artists will be the same for your music files, only re-tagging will help with that.
If you don't want this index just remove it.

I've changed the album sort from 'Album.sortTags={Date,Album}' to 'Album.sortTags={AlbumArtist, Date,Album}' because I know initially that's what you wanted for Music, but because of the complexities of the Artist tag you removed it. Now we're using AlbumArtist all the Music albums will be sorted by AlbumArtist then Date and finally Album but everything else will be sorted by Date then Album, because every other category either doesn't have a value in AlbumArtist or it's all the same e.g. Various Artists.
If you don't want that, just remove 'AlbumArtist, '.

In your tagUpdate.txt I think you'll only now need:

Code:

@GENRE=Podcast
+AUDIOTYPE=Podcasts
@GENRE=Hörbuch
+AUDIOTYPE=Audio Book
@COMPILATION=1
+AUDIOTYPE=Compilations

Plus your other definitions for Radio Plays, Christmas e.t.c.

If there's anything else in your file that you think you need let me know as I've lost where we are with it.

I think that should give you everything you need.


EDIT: Of course, if you think you'll NEVER populate the Artist tag with guest artists, and it will only ever equate to the AlbumArtist, then you probably don't need to make any changes to your tags, just use this profile and remove the AlbumArtist index.
Whilst adding guests artists to the Artist tag will allow you to filter on them too, it also makes the presentation of the album/tracks better as well (my opinion of course).