Questions re Database and Indexing

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(20-12-2013 11:20)LinAdmin Wrote:  b) Artists are in a comma separated list like "Brendel, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Levine" and (year) is optional.

Is there a possibility to configure the scanning process in such a way that the index of artists is not built by the combination of all entries as given in artist tag, but by making a separate entry for each of the constituents.

In the above example that file would become accessible via artist index of "Brendel", "Chicago Symphony Orchestra" or "Levine".

This would allow to easily see all entries for a specific artist or orchestra without creating individual tags.

It's not possible with MinimServer to automatically separate multiple artists which are summarized in a single tag. There would be quite a lot of problems with this approach, the most obvious being that there is no standard for separating the artists in a single tag (some may use a comma, others may use a slash).

The remommended way to get each single artist in the index is to create a single ARTIST tag for each artist. For example, your single ARTIST tag "Brendel, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Levine" should be split into three ARTIST tags. You can quite easily achieve this with a software like MP3tag.
Please note that you then still can configure MinimServer to send the full string "Brendel, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Levine" to the control point by using the displayFormat property.