I also do not see the differenc between movement and song. Isn't that
the same?

I prefer to split classical CDs into "virtual albums" so that I use the
album tag for a work and the track tags for the movements of the work
(each work thus defines a "virtual album"). This works fine whith CDs
on which are only several works like symphonies. The original title of
these CDs is usually not so important (mostly it is not even a real
"title" but only a list of the works).

However, sometimes on a CD there are two "works" (e.g. symphonies or
sonatas) and in addition several single pieces (like piano pieces
consisiting only of ONE "movement"). If I split these CDs in several
"virtual albums" (one for each "work" and one for each "single piece")
I have the problem that these single pieces are stored both as album
and as track which means that there are two levels of hirarchy when
pressing RIGHT on the remote having the same contents. Is it possible
with custom browse to have a kind of IF clause for the browse menu
structure to supress the last level if the leve one above is
identical?

Finally, the above tagging does not solve my problem with CDs like
"Horowitz plays in Carnegie Hall" (which comprises e.g. some multi
movement sonatas as well as single piano pieces). If I use the above
approach I have to split the CD in several "virtual albums" one for
each sonata and single piece. But then I have no possibility to browse
for the original CD title "Horowitz plays in Carnegie Hall" which is
for this example in my opinion a very important possibility. I wanted
to solve that problem by either using two album tags, one comprising
the orignal CD title and one the respective title of the virtual album
(e.g. "Beethoven sonata no. 5") but slimserver does not allow multiple
album tags. I then tried to use the "multiple item in tags option" but
that does not work for the album tag, only for artist and genre. That's
why I filed a long time ago two bug reports for that, one of which was
closed as "won't fix" (bug no. 2553) and the other is still open (bug
report 1776).

Erland, in your proposal you mentioned a "work" tag. I read in your
description of custum browse that only certain tags are playable (like
track, album, artist). Is this "work" tag playable, i.e. can I browse
to the list of works, scroll to one of them and then press play to play
the work (i.e. all tracks one level below)?

If your custom browse can give a solution to the above that would be
great!


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