[PROBLEM] Blank screen Library > Tags, Albums

[RPI4 Rambler]

@RPI4 Rambler

Hi, Marco.

MPD already indexes the metadata you are asking for.

Here as proof, on a stock moOde 6.7.1 player with a NAS library served as a SMB share from OpenMediaVault, are some examples of the output I asked for from you:

Code:

pi@moode3a:~ $ mpc list albumartist

Aaron Copland
Abdelazar
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Al Di Meola
...

pi@moode3a:~ $ mpc list artist

A.Khachaturian
A.Piazolla
A.Vivaldi
Abdelazar
...

pi@moode3a:~ $ mpc list album

'Four' & More
16 of Their Greatest Hits
1999 - Chopin - Klavierkonzert 1 u.a. - Ax
2400 Fulton Street: An Anthology
...

pi@moode3a:~ $ mpc list track

1
10
101
102
...

pi@moode3a:~ $ mpc list title

"Air on the G String" (from Suite III), BWV 1068
"Airs from Vauxhall Gardens"
"Jewish Rapsody", Int. V. Malinovski
"Manfred" Ouvertüre op. 115
...

pi@moode3a:~ $ mpc list genre

Alternative
Ambient
Avant-Garde
Avant-gardelectronica
...

pi@moode3a:~ $ mpc list date

0
1949
1950
1955
...

pi@moode3a:~ $ mpc list disc

1
102
14
2

The moodeutl -s output you posted looks normal.

My position is that simply meddling with a system's innards without understanding the system is as likely to produce a positive result as simply meddling with my innards because I have a problem if you haven't some training about the systems of the human body. 

We forumistas* have some knowledge of the innards of moOde but we're still trying to get enough data from your system to understand where lies the problem dealing with your massive library. I still think starting with one share, preferably the smallest of the 6 (so maybe less than 50k tracks) would help establish that everything is basically working.

Regards,
Kent

*forumista === anyone not named Tim!

Hi Kent,

First order of business: next time I'll speak to Boris Johnson, I will tell him to stop meddling with Britain's economy because he is so blatantly lacking in knowledge of its innards. 
Actually mpd is not involved (or only slightly) in indexing in Moode. It's being done by php7.3_fpm or some such program (don't recall precisely off the top of my head), several instances of that program oftentimes. It does, of course, use mpd.conf as indexing parameters. But not all indexing parameters. Anyway, Moode's MPD uses 

Code:

metadata_to_use "+comment"

which means that the default MPD metatags are used plus the "comment" tag, the MPD defaults being

Code:

"artist,album,title,track,name,genre,date,composer,performer,disc"

However, Moode overrides and/or adds to the default metatags as evidenced in the moodeutl output:

Code:

Extra metadata          = track,disc,composer,year,encoded

I would like to have the following metatags:

Code:

"albumartist,artist,album,track,title,genre,date,disc"

My glaring ignorance of Moode's innards prevents me from finding the option to do so, even in Moode's GUI.  But wait! I could just edit the Metattag override file to get what I want. And I would like to be able to choose to view the metatags in any combination possible. But wait! It's forbidden by the forumistas! Darn it. 

Well, as to your suggestion to try things with a small library, it's a good idea, I just do not have the time nor the physical condition to do so. 

Cheers,
marco