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Prior99 / mopidy-subidy

Mopidy extension for playing music from Subsonic servers.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Directory Browsing only works two directories down #3

Closed jbouter closed 7 years ago

jbouter commented 7 years ago

Browsing directories doesn't work multiple directories down. I've tested this using Ario (GTK frontend to mpd) and ncmpc.

For instance, the directory John Lennon/Imagine would be browsable, however John Lennon/Studio Albums/Imagine is not.

Prior99 commented 7 years ago

Unfortunately, this is because of the way Mopidy and Subsonic work. Correct me if I am wrong:

Mopidy has no understanding of "Directories". There are artists, albums and songs. Artists have albums and albums have songs. (Maybe I understood the browsing-backend part of mopidy wrong, though)

Subsonic just recurses through your directories until you find a song and then reads it's metadata, but doesn't use it to build a hierarchy.

So this plugin (at least the browsing) needs your hierarchy to be Artist/Album/Songs.

If someone could point out to me on how to properly list the artists as well as all albums for a single artist (which was the problematic part when I tried to implement it this way) in the Subsonic API I would be very grateful as I too needed to change the structure of my library to fit this restriction.

jbouter commented 7 years ago

Alright! Thanks for your feedback. It's probably better if I re-organise the albums anyway. I'm rather new to mopidy and subidy, so this information is new to me.

Prior99 commented 7 years ago

Please do not close this issue yet. I will have a look at it at the weekend. I am not quiet sure if I understood the browsing feature of mopidy correctly. This might be possible.

But I'd rather reorganize my media instead of waiting for a patch ;)