"Virtually" Splitting Albums

[simoncn]

At present, MinimServer doesn't allow a group to contain tracks that either don't have consecutive track numbers or span an album disc boundary, for example:

Example 1:
track 1 in group A
track 2 in group A
track 3 (not in a group)
track 4 in group A
...other tracks

Example 2:
...other tracks in disc 1
disc 1, track 10 in group B (the last track on disc 1)
disc 2, track 1 in group B (the first track on disc 2)
...other tracks on disc 2

In both these cases, the group identity is removed from all tracks in the group and a warning message is shown in the MinimServer log.

There have been requests for this situation to be handled by preserving the group identity and creating separate groups (with the same name) for eack block of noncontiguous tracks. With this approach, the item list for example 1 would be:

A
track 3
A
...other tracks

and for example 2 would be

(Disc 1)
...other tracks
B

(Disc 2)
B
...other tracks

I am working on implementing this change in the next MinimServer update.