A couple of queries from a Newbie.

[simoncn]

(09-12-2013 10:10)Pastim Wrote:  My understanding of the purpose of multiTag is that if enabled, multi-value tags are listed separately in the index, and if disabled they are combined (by default separated by a comma). Is that wrong? I have Classical as the 1st of 2 tags for all Classical genres. I was therefore trying this to see whether I could get 'Classical, Violin Concerto' and so on, rather than separate Classical and Violin Concerto lines. Similarly I was trying to test the effect on Artist etc.

The multiTag setting is used for a different purpose, which isn't applicable to your usage of MinimServer.

It isn't possible to change the way multiple values of the same tag are presented in the index, except for the special case of Artist. For the Artist index, you can use the Artist.indexValue setting to do this. This is described in this section of the User guide.

Quote:Many of my tracks have many multiple Artist tags (who were not all included in the AlbumArtist tags). Previously these were not showing as a string of comma-separated items (a, b, c, d, e...) under the Artist index. When I implemented the MainArtist Alias, they all appeared, comma-separated. When I try to stop them being comma-separated by specifying all.display.multiTag, I still get them comma-separated. Is this an unexpected 'feature' caused by trying to use multiple AlbumArtist tags and breaking something else?

The multiTag setting is used for a different purpose (see above).

To see the artists individually, you can use the All Artists index. If this this isn't already in your indexTags property setting, you need to add it there and restart MinimServer.

Quote:You've lost me there. Where do I set .indexValue?

See above.

Quote:However, in MinimServer my Artist index did not show the individual x or y entries. All I see is 'x, y' under Artist. This does to seem to be what you expected me to see, and is somewhat puzzling. Using the MainArtist alias resolves this for the MainArtist index, but under Artist I still only get x, y rather than separate x and y.

To see the artists individually, you can use the All Artists index (see above).