Originally Posted by
JMinSF
A few remarks and questions on 0.8 beta.
1) ..... I added new DB fields (e.g. 'ensemble' in FLAC for orchestra) and added them to the uPnP tree, deepened the Composer tree to Composer\Genre\Album ...
Be careful - there is an option in dBpoweramp ripper, where (in advanced settings for flac) it patches album artist to ensemble, if I remember correctly. So you might end up with orchestras, that are no orchestras... I've added a custom field in dBpoweramp ripper called "orchestra" and fill that manually using EditIDTag after each rip. By manually adding this field into the database configuration file of Asset uPNP and defining a browsing tree element in the other config file, I can access that without problems. This is strictly limited to your installation of Asset uPNP, though, and not officialy supported and read by other servers, so don't rely on any other programs/software than Asset-uPNP to understand that
Originally Posted by
JMinSF
3) .... Being able to sort on other criteria such as opus numbers would be great....
As above - you could create custom fields such as "composition" and "opus". It's a little more work after each rip, but indexing and later on finding these values is worth the effort imho
Originally Posted by
JMinSF
5) .... only one artist per track. ....
When ripping with dBpoweramp or editing with EditID, you could delimit track-artists by " ; " and assign a single artist to be "album artist". In dBpoweramps ID-tag-options check the " ; "-option and "import multiple artists from non-multiple-artists-aware programs" - that way, Asset uPNP afaik will support multiple track artists - then it's all about your browsing structure, how to find artists.... Not 100% sure about that at the moment though, I still have to test that, but it should work.
One thing, that I ask myself, though, is support for multiple composers, lyricists and genres. Could they be delimited by " ; "? Often enough, I would sort an album both - for example - under Jazz and Vocal, or would love to have an album show up under Pop, Rock or classical as some sort "main category", but also, when I do a more specific search, have them also filed under more special genres.
Same problem with multiple composers - setting up a tree element "composer" brings up individual and combined works by composers X, Y and Z like
Code:
X work a b c
X;Y work d
X;Z work e
Y work f
Z work g
etc., and not
Code:
X work a b c d e
Y work d f
Z work e g
So, does anybody know, whether that is possible?