virtual folders, based on tag: How do I......
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 9:23 pm
Hi,
I'm new, and am enjoying UMS 10.19.0 on my PC.
I have a question that may have been answered many times, but I am not sure about the correct terminology to use for searches....
Apologies if this is all covered somewhere!
Setup:
- I have a NAS/RAID box that runs its own DLNA server, which works fine, for 3x Smart TVs, Cambridge Audio 75, VLC/Foobar2K on 3x PC and on 2x Android!
- Sometimes there is music on my PC (or videos) I want to access without booting the NAS/RAID, so UMS is what I use and it works excellently for that purpose, with ALL the renderers or controllers I use.
- All my huge music collection is fully and consistently tagged (MP3Tag tool) - I'm a bit OCD about this, so finding things is easy.
- A DLNA server basically uses a database that can be searched by fields or combination of fields, and the "views" presented I call "virtual folders" with knowing the correct term.
- Now, the "virtual folders" I see from my NAS/RAID box server on my controllers (N.B. some controllers are also renderers in one) are a similar set to those that I see with UMS on the same data files, but are not the same. For example, the top level starts "Music", "Videos", "Photos" or similar, but on selecting "Music", I get: Album, All Tracks, Artist, Artists Index, Artist/Album, By Folder, Genre/Album, Genre/Artist, Genre/Song, Playlist and more. Not quite the same on UMS, but realize these "constructs" are tantamount to database queries for sets of tags in fields.
The question:
- What in UMS controls the set of "queries" or look-ups seen by the controller, and how do I configure additional "virtual folders" (as I call them!) to build a query based on different combinations of tags or change the names of the 'folders'?
Here are the different "virtual folders" comparing my NAS/RAID and UMS...
.
I'm new, and am enjoying UMS 10.19.0 on my PC.
I have a question that may have been answered many times, but I am not sure about the correct terminology to use for searches....
Apologies if this is all covered somewhere!
Setup:
- I have a NAS/RAID box that runs its own DLNA server, which works fine, for 3x Smart TVs, Cambridge Audio 75, VLC/Foobar2K on 3x PC and on 2x Android!
- Sometimes there is music on my PC (or videos) I want to access without booting the NAS/RAID, so UMS is what I use and it works excellently for that purpose, with ALL the renderers or controllers I use.
- All my huge music collection is fully and consistently tagged (MP3Tag tool) - I'm a bit OCD about this, so finding things is easy.
- A DLNA server basically uses a database that can be searched by fields or combination of fields, and the "views" presented I call "virtual folders" with knowing the correct term.
- Now, the "virtual folders" I see from my NAS/RAID box server on my controllers (N.B. some controllers are also renderers in one) are a similar set to those that I see with UMS on the same data files, but are not the same. For example, the top level starts "Music", "Videos", "Photos" or similar, but on selecting "Music", I get: Album, All Tracks, Artist, Artists Index, Artist/Album, By Folder, Genre/Album, Genre/Artist, Genre/Song, Playlist and more. Not quite the same on UMS, but realize these "constructs" are tantamount to database queries for sets of tags in fields.
The question:
- What in UMS controls the set of "queries" or look-ups seen by the controller, and how do I configure additional "virtual folders" (as I call them!) to build a query based on different combinations of tags or change the names of the 'folders'?
Here are the different "virtual folders" comparing my NAS/RAID and UMS...
.