Genre Splitting in the wiim app

[r5yk5]

My Music library has 110 genres, which to be honest is far too many to start with.
Flac files with separate vorbis tags for each genre eg a file with a particularly large amount of genre tags

comment[131]: GENRE=Celtic
comment[132]: GENRE=Celtic Fusion
comment[133]: GENRE=Celtic New Age
comment[134]: GENRE=Downtempo
comment[135]: GENRE=Dub
comment[136]: GENRE=Electronic
comment[137]: GENRE=Folk
comment[138]: GENRE=Folk Rock
comment[139]: GENRE=International
comment[140]: GENRE=New Age
comment[141]: GENRE=Pop
comment[142]: GENRE=Rock
comment[143]: GENRE=Scottish Folk

In Home music share minim server lists each genre tag separately 110 items.



If I scan Minim Server (Advanced Mode) every combination of tags is listed meaning I have 1257 listings in the Genre section.




This makes browsing by Genre impossible/pointless. Please split genres in the home app or get the genre information from the server........

.....or is there a setting somewhere obvious I've missed?

Thanks

 

[simbun]

This makes browsing by Genre impossible/pointless. Please split genres in the home app or get the genre information from the server........

In "Advanced" mode WiiM pulls the album and track metadata from MinimServer (not from the files) in order to create the unified view; the problem is that it's already been transformed. For each track WiiM receives:

<upnp:genre>Celtic, Celtic Fusion, International</upnp:genre>
<upnp:artist>Elton John, Earth, Wind & Fire</upnp:artist>

WiiM could split the values on comma (other servers use a different delimiter) but that's a dangerous thing to do, especially for the Artist index.

"Legacy" view is much more powerful.