Curtailment of Album Tag by Hyphen

[Budgie]

(25-09-2012 19:33)simoncn Wrote:  

(25-09-2012 17:51)Budgie Wrote:  Using Bubble DS as control point on Samsung SIII I have been able to compare library searches from each server and find that with Minimserver served files, the Album titles are curtailed at the " - ". In consequence I get a list of a dozen titles "Händel" and only by knowing the conductor can I work out which opera it is. The same search on the Twonky served data gives me the full title.

I have a number of albums with titles in this format and I've never seen this problem. Is it possible that the '-' character isn't a regular hyphen, but some Unicode character that looks similar?

You can check for this by using the writeAllTags property on the MinimServer Advanced page. To get a list of all the tags in your files, you can do the following:
1) Set the writeAllTags property to the name of a file. It's probably a good idea to make this a file in the /share/Public directory of the NAS, so it's easy for you to copy it to your computer.
2) Press OK to accept this setting, then select Restart.
3) When MinimServer has finished restarting (green icon), there should be a file on the NAS containing a list of all your tags.
4) Clear the writeAllTags field and press OK. You don't need to create this file every time you start MinimServer.
5) Copy the tags file to your computer. The contents will be in the UTF-8 character set. From this, you should be able to see if these album names contain a regular hyphen (0x2d) or something else. If it isn't a regular hyphen, please let me know what its hex encoding is. Another (likely) possibility is that the tags file will show the truncated album names.

Please let me know what you find in the tags file.

Hi Simon,

I can only use minimwatch from openSUSE laptop by turning off firewall but, having done so, have saved the writeAllTags as you instructed above. File is a bit too big to copy here but I can send if you tell me how/where.

Meanwhile the file is nothing like what I expected. For example I have 22 Händel opera albums all with album tag in the form "Händel - opera name (conductor's name)" but in the file they are shown as "opera name (conductor's name). The "Händel" - has been ignored. The reverse of what I see on control point which shows Händel but no opera name (the artist tag entry is shewn correctly below). What is going on here?

Amongst the genres listed I can see the delimiter \\ and commas where I have not yet edited correctly. Is this how files for which I have two genres should appear in this list?

Regards,
Budgie