08-27-2020, 12:46 PM
(08-26-2020, 09:41 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: @RPI4 Rambler
Ah, the penny finally dropped. You're talking about the metadata displayed in the moOdeUI, not the metadata scanned by MPD. This list is editable in the m>Appearance screen under Other>Extra Metadata, for which clicking on the information bubble reveals: "Enter any combination of track, disc, year, composer, encoded or None for display under the cover art." added] If it's not possible to add the fields you want, then you'll have to talk to Tim about it.
Or am I still off in left field somewhere.
Regards,
Kent
Hi Kent,
I forgot to mention that. I knew that already. There are plenty of metadata choices to be made through Menu --> Appearance, but I'm under the impression that they are not processed through MPD, which we were discussing at that point. Normally or let's just say "in other systems", all the metatags are handled by MPD but not in Moode and for good reason it would seem. According to the MPD developers, some metatags are not static or even stable. In particular "artist" and "albumartist" are ambivalently handled by MPD (?). I wonder what would happen if Moode's MPD gets a bump up to MPD 0.22. It exists, but it's not easy to come by and certainly unsupported.
Back to Moode: the values of the Appearance menu are of course stored in one of more files "or innards!".
Ok, the next bit may seem off-topic entirely, but as many view the size of my library as the root of the problem, let's take a deeper look.
The size of my system has been deemed "monstrous", "huge" etc. I'll try to explain the relevance of the size . Although being server systems first and foremost, the server systems I use on the QNAP NAS do not exhibit any problems with the size of my Library. Yes, they are server systems (which Moode is not) but all of them offer plugins (or embedded functionality) so they can also play music/video/photos directly. In fact QNAP NAS systems all support a number of DACs for these server systems. Qnap even have NAS systems (passively cooled) for use in the living room. So take for instance Twonky Server, I have it running on the same QNAP NAS that contains my entire music and video library which is bigger still than 'just my Moode library'. It lets you create any Library view one could ever envision. Automatic updating works flawlessly and its indexing is quite fast. Its price is $15, for which you can use mulitple installations on different machines.
Another server system (free, for now) I have running is Minimserver, the fastest of them all. It relies on Java though, which is certainly not known for its performance. It has a tiny front-end, but again it doesn't have a single problem with my library and can be extended with streaming functionality.
I own 7 NAS systems for all kinds of duties, and all use CPU's that are on a par with the RPI; the older ones have even slower CPU's. Mostly, their RAM is lower than what RPI4 offers from 128MB to max. 1 GB. My QNAP is an exception with 8GB of RAM. Now all these NAS systems are entry-level ones, so they all have ARM-based architectures similar to RPI's. NAS's in the higher price range usually have x86 architectures with matching CPU's (starting with the really low powered Intel Celeron's and up).
