ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin

[coldslabs]

Ok, there's a new beta release (1.1.0b) in the beta repository. This implements the option to make library views recursive or not.

With recursive enabled: Create Library Views Complete 00:00:19
With recursive disabled: Create Library Views Complete 00:00:18

- Songs added as expected in both cases.
- Changing RECURSIVE setting initiated a new scan as expected.

Also, anyone running LMS on Windows care to give this a test for me?

I'm using the docker image with Debian 11.

Hopefully it'll just be offered as a straight upgrade from 1.1.0a.

I did not test the straight upgrade (I disabled the plugin and re-enabled it). If there is a way I can still test it?

[adhawkins]

I did not test the straight upgrade (I disabled the plugin and re-enabled it). If there is a way I can still test it?

Thanks for confirming the test data, appreciate it.

Not sure about being able to test. However, I've made another change that means I only need to scan the filesystem once even if you have multiple library views defined. Once I'm happy with that I'll release a new beta version. Hopefully you'll be able to do a straight upgrade with that one.

Andy

[Chunkywizard]

Thanks for the new beta Andy, I have now started to use your plugin :-)

One thing I found if that when I enable a view it still displays my Spotify artists/ albums. Are way to suppress those when in restricted view?

Cheers

CW

[adhawkins]

One thing I found if that when I enable a view it still displays my Spotify artists/ albums. Are way to suppress those when in restricted view?

To be honest, I have no idea.

All this plugin does is add IDs for matching tracks into the library view, so I'm not sure why Spotify libraries are showing up as well.

Maybe @mherger can advise?

Andy

[mherger]

>> One thing I found if that when I enable a view it still displays my
>> Spotify artists/ albums. Are way to suppress those when in restricted
>> view?
>>
> To be honest, I have no idea.

As Simple Library Views is based on local files on the local file system
there's no way to use it with online tracks.

[Chunkywizard]

Hi Michael, I don't want to use it for on-line tracks, I just want, that when I invoke a simple library view, the restricted view doesn't show Spotify tracks (ie turns off the Spotty plug-in!). Is that possible for Andy to code in some way?

Cheers

CW

[mherger]

> Hi Michael, I don't want to use it for on-line tracks, I just want, that
> when I invoke a simple library view, the restricted view doesn't show
> Spotify tracks (ie turns off the Spotty plug-in!). Is that possible for
> Andy to code in some way?

Ah, got you. Yes, that should be fairly easy. Replace

WHERE url like ?

with

WHERE url LIKE ? AND url LIKE 'file://%'

This ensures that only local files are part of the library.

[Chunkywizard]

Thanks Michael!

Andy, does that make sense and can you make the change please?

[adhawkins]

Ah, got you. Yes, that should be fairly easy. Replace

WHERE url like ?

with

WHERE url LIKE ? AND url LIKE 'file://%'

This ensures that only local files are part of the library.

But the value passed to 'like' is already a file:// URL. It's created using:

		my $pathSearch = Slim::Utils::Misc::fileURLFromPath($dir) . "/%";
		$sth_recursive_insert->execute($id, $pathSearch);

Or am I misunderstanding what 'fileURLFromPath' does?

Andy

[adhawkins]

I've just uploaded v1.1.0c - this incorporates some minor efficiency updates which may make a difference on large libraries or slower storage. The scanning of the disk for .simple-library-views-xxxx files is now done once for all libraries, rather than individually for each library.

This should just updated from 1.1.0b if you have the 'beta.xml' repo listed in LMS.

Comments appreciated.

Andy