ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin

[adhawkins]

Just checked and the issue is fixed, thanks very much!

That's great news, thanks for confirming.

By the way, whilst playing around I had an idea for a useful feature. Would it be possible to have a view that excludes certain libraries?

For example, I would like a view of all my music -children's -audiobooks. I know I could make this view by flagging all of the music directories, but that’s a tag in every artists folder and I have quite a few.

Would that be possible?

Anything is possible, it's only software! That's a feature I've considered right from the start, I just need to have a think about how it could be both specified (in terms of the configuration page) and implemented.

https://github.com/adhawkins/SimpleLibraryViews/issues/3

For now, one way around this would be to put all your Children's music in a top-level folder, and all your Audiobooks in another. Then your 'regular' music would be in a third folder, and you drop in an SLV file there.

Andy

[Chunkywizard]

Thanks Andy. I did consider restructuring my directories but I’d rather not. If you add the feature I’d be delighted to test it for you :-)

Cheers

CW

[Chunkywizard]

Michael,

not sure if this a consequence of the new LMS version or some sort of caching but on my desktop I can not see the Library View entry under My Music any more

However on my iPad if displays (and works) fine

Any ideas why?

CW

[kidstypike]

Additional Browse Modes plugin? Settings are per player.

[Chunkywizard]

good call, that was it! Thanks for the help

[adhawkins]

I've just release v1.1.0 to the repo. You LMS should offer it as an upgrade from the Beta test versions automatically.

Thanks to everyone involved in the testing process, much appreciated.

Andy

[OlivierS]

Hi all,

I just installed this plugin a few days ago and I feel it's a smart and elegant solution for my classification; a simple and clear concept is always the friend of efficiency (unfortunately not always easy to implement, I know that after many decades of software dev, so I appreciate). Congratulations !

Like other users in this thread I experiment auto rescan difficulties:
- my system is not on line 24/7 and when I start it my NAS is not always online, so the rescan eliminates each track from the db and it takes several minutes for just 2500 tracks
- after that, when I restart the server with my NAS online, the rescan takes another very long time to recreate the old things

So I think it would be a good thing if the db was not destroyed when I boot with the music disks offline.

IMHO if we had a general option for scanning method in the server, used by all scanning or auto scanning plugins it would be a good solution, for example: "Don't scan offline sources"
another option, more brutal and limited, could be a checkbox in the plugin: "Auto rescan" (Yes/No)
another option etc... I don't know... ;o)

I would be happy to read any ideas about that, again it's a VERY NICE plugin and I want to use it !

Regards,

[adhawkins]

Hi,

Thanks for your kind words about the plugin. Glad you're finding it useful.

So I think it would be a good thing if the db was not destroyed when I boot with the music disks offline.

I don't think that this is specific to this plugin, sounds like what you're describing is that the entire music database is empty if you do a scan with the NAS offline. If that's the case, then the main server software would need to be modified to make this less inconvenient in some way.

If so, probably best to post in one of the more 'general' forums.

Andy

[OlivierS]

Hi,

Thanks for your kind words about the plugin. Glad you're finding it useful.


I don't think that this is specific to this plugin, sounds like what you're describing is that the entire music database is empty if you do a scan with the NAS offline. If that's the case, then the main server software would need to be modified to make this less inconvenient in some way.

If so, probably best to post in one of the more 'general' forums.

Andy

Yes, I think you're right, there should be a global option, and I'll suggest something in more general forum. But for now, when all other autoscan plugins are inactive, the only presence of Simple Library Views plugin actives an autoscan at restart of the server and I think it should be better if optional. Maybe there are also other reasons and situations where someone would block that autoscan. I'd love to help if I could, with long experience with software development but without any experience with Perl and LMS plugins; maybe would you indicate to me some efficient doc to understand plugins mechanisms, for me to get a better idea ?
Regards,

[mherger]

adhawkins - what's the reason you'd do an unconditional rescan on every restart (https://github.com/adhawkins/SimpleL...ugin.pm#L124)? Maybe whatever the reason could be addressed differently?

[kidstypike]

Hi,

Thanks for your kind words about the plugin. Glad you're finding it useful.


I don't think that this is specific to this plugin, sounds like what you're describing is that the entire music database is empty if you do a scan with the NAS offline. If that's the case, then the main server software would need to be modified to make this less inconvenient in some way.

If so, probably best to post in one of the more 'general' forums.

Andy

With respect.

I was one of the first to try your SLV plugins all those years ago, I lost interest in it when I discovered it initiated a library scan on LMS start/restart.

I no longer have SLV installed.

I've just switched off my NAS that holds my music files and started LMS, it does not initiate a scan when it discovers it's library is missing, I just cannot play any local files. Plays radio stations no problem.

[adhawkins]

adhawkins - what's the reason you'd do an unconditional rescan on every restart (https://github.com/adhawkins/SimpleL...ugin.pm#L124)? Maybe whatever the reason could be addressed differently?

That's a very good question Michael. I can only assume that while I didn't fully understand how the server and scanning worked, I put that in for some reason.

If it's not necessary, then perhaps OlivierS can try editing that line out and see if that resolves his issue? If it does, I'll remove it and issue a new version.

Thanks

Andy

[OlivierS]

That's a very good question Michael. I can only assume that while I didn't fully understand how the server and scanning worked, I put that in for some reason.

If it's not necessary, then perhaps OlivierS can try editing that line out and see if that resolves his issue? If it does, I'll remove it and issue a new version.

Thanks

Andy

Hello,

I just saw your post now, and yes I had spotted and disabled this line; the result seems to be correct, but I didn't do so many tests and in the end I am happy (for now..) with the standard virtual libraries that I did not know before

Thank you for your answers

[adhawkins]

I just saw your post now, and yes I had spotted and disabled this line; the result seems to be correct, but I didn't do so many tests and in the end I am happy (for now..) with the standard virtual libraries that I did not know before

Thanks. I'll see if I can remember how to release a new version without this line

Andy

[Cerb]

I'm finally giving this plugin a try after using these boxes for twenty years - and I seem to have the same issue as other folks, with what appears to be all of my online service saved artists (Pandora, Spotify, Tidal) in all of my library view 'Album Artist' lists, regardless of the library view. No albums are listed for those artists if they are clicked. Thoughts?

Logitech Media Server Version: 8.3.1 - 1676361197 @ Fri 17 Feb 2023 06:37:09 AM CET
Simple Library Views plugin: v1.1.0