Subsonic API Multi disk view

[SenorSmartyPants]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Option to display a individual disks in a boxset, instead of the current list of all tracks. I saw this mentioned in #272 but it was crossed out. Was this decided against or just not implemented?

Describe the solution you'd like

Display sub folders for each disk in a boxset, using disk subtitle for folder name (and year of release). Bonus material sometimes has a different release date than the original CD.

Additional context

DSub does not have a way to provide separation of disks in the track list (other than just the track number). I would like to be able to select play all on 1 disk in a box set easily.

[deluan]

As the UI does not support folders, the best we can do is what is already implemented. With the current implementation you can see the tracks grouped by discs in a boxset, play/shuffle one disc and so on. The image in the mentioned issue, is what you see if the album is properly tagged with disc subtitle tags.

The crossed-out item in that issue is related to your "Additional context": To allow Subsonic clients like DSub to show discs as subfolders in a boxset, if using browse by folder (browse by tag does not support it). I may implement it in the future.

[SenorSmartyPants]

Yes, I'm only asking about the subsonic API. No need to change the Navidrome Web UI.

Consider this my +1 for browse by folder to show discs as subfolders.

[certuna]

The Subsonic API already supports DiscNumber (it's included in the Child ComplexType), it's up to the client app to subdivide an album into discs. If it doesn't do that, what could Navidrome do?

[KingDuckZ]

It would be nice if the boxset displayed the cover art for the corresponding disc too, for albums that have a different cover for each disc!

Anyways I noticed the spinning disc in the play bar already displays the correct cover, so thank you for that :)

The grouping itself works fine with me in Strawberry (and also the cover art for each song seems to be the correct one).

[certuna]

In principle songs can have individual covers in the Subsonic API, but not sure how Navidrome handles this in the DB?

[deluan]

The Subsonic API already supports DiscNumber (it's included in the Child ComplexType), it's up to the client app to subdivide an album into discs. If it doesn't do that, what could Navidrome do?

@certuna, I agree it is up to the client to do The Right Thing ™️ , but some simply don't. In my use case, DSub correctly displays shows the tracks in order, but does not make a clear separation between discs:

My idea is to leverage the "browse by folder" API, which would allow an album to have "subfolders" (the discs), and each could have its own cover (answering @KingDuckZ question)

In principle songs can have individual covers in the Subsonic API, but not sure how Navidrome handles this in the DB?

From Subsonic API getCoverArt docs:

id - The ID of a song, album or artist.

So yes, if the client calls this endpoint passing a song ID, it will return the embedded cover of that song, if available. It falls back to the album cover.

[SenorSmartyPants]

Any updates on the possibility of implementing the "Browse by folder" option.

[deluan]

I took a look, it is not that simple, but easier to implement than browse-by-folder itself. I'll try to implement it after the next release

[SenorSmartyPants]

@deluan any updates on this?

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[SenorSmartyPants]

This is a feature request, and I still value it as an easy way to play a single disk from a multi disk album in subsonic clients.

[deluan]

Update: I'm revisiting the DB schema to support multiple folders, and will try to squeeze this in. No promises on timeline, though.

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[SenorSmartyPants]

This is a feature request and I would still find it valuable and hopefully others would as well.

[deluan]

Hey @SenorSmartyPants are you still using DSub? Symfonium and Tempo both have a clear separation of discs in an album, and soon OpenSubsonic clients will display disc titles as well:

• https://opensubsonic.netlify.app/docs/responses/disctitle/
• https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/commit/2c9035fdd02566a551b65c83cd288591faaf7b7a

So, can we close this, as the OS discTitle attribute is already supported by Navidrome?

[SenorSmartyPants]

I am still using DSub. I've been checking out Ultrasonic but haven't made that my daily driver yet as I have some issues with it/getting used to it. I need a client that supports Android Auto (Tempo does not seem to), and would prefer open source.

Checking out Tempo: it does delineate where one disc starts, but does not give the ability to click to play one disc and not the other (which is the functionality I am looking for)

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