More than one library

[Huebi]

Hi,

is it possible two have more than one library? I would like to have my Audiobooks separated from my Music und not a mix of both. There two different directories on my NAS, but when i specify bith of them then i'm getting a mixture of music and audiobooks.

//Huebi

[Tim Curtis]

You should be able to do this with the new feature "Save and reuse searches for Library Tag/Album view" in upcoming 8.3.4 release (Q3).

Here's the status thread for the upcoming release. https://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread....2#pid47242

[Huebi]

You should be able to do this with the new feature "Save and reuse searches for Library Tag/Album view" in upcoming 8.3.4 release (Q3).

Ok, i've updated to 8.3.5 today. 

The saved searches are a bit tedious to use (a click/tap doesn't select it, but asks again if it should be activated), and I can now display all my audiobooks via the genre "Audiobook", for example. however, I haven't found how to display all albums that do NOT have a certain criterion. I can specify a list of all other genres, but that I would have to adjust a new genre again and again. Have I overlooked something or you can not specify an exclusion criterion in the advanced search?

//Huebi

[Tim Curtis]

Click just brings up a context menu with Activate/Delete options. If it were implemented such that a click activated the search then a separate trash can button would be would need to be added to each line to provide a delete option.

MPD does in fact support != or !EXPRESSION in searches. Post some examples of searches you would like to perform using the exclusion operator and I'll see if something can be added to Adv Search.

Not that MPD only supports the AND operator when combining EXPRESSIONS.

MPD Search Filters
https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pro...ml#filters

[Nutul]

Click just brings up a context menu with Activate/Delete options. If it were implemented such that a click activated the search then a separate trash can button would be would need to be added to each line to provide a delete option.

MPD does in fact support != or !EXPRESSION in searches. Post some examples of searches you would like to perform using the exclusion operator and I'll see if something can be added to Adv Search.

Not that MPD only supports the AND operator when combining EXPRESSIONS.

MPD Search Filters
https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pro...ml#filters

You mean something like

genre !Audiobook

if it works like this, the saved searches are even more powerful than I first thought.

[Huebi]

You mean something like

genre !Audiobook

if it works like this, the saved searches are even more powerful than I first thought.

If there would be such a NOT operator that would be great

[Tim Curtis]

You mean something like

genre !Audiobook

if it works like this, the saved searches are even more powerful than I first thought.

If there would be such a NOT operator that would be great

Please post some example searches that you would use so I have something to work with.

[Huebi]

Please post some example searches that you would use so I have something to work with.

What I currently have in mind is grouping the files by genre. Grouping different genres together is not a problem, but I would also like to have something like "everything without audiobooks", like this

Code:

Genre !Audiobooks

or also everything without classics.

Code:

Genre !Classical

It doesn't need to be more complicated than that for me at the moment

Or full scope: 

Code:

Select *
from library
where genre is not "Classical"
  and gnere is not "AudioBooks"
  and year is between 1972 and 1978

Ok, just kidding

[Nutul]

I am talking just for discriminating Audiobooks AND Music.

There is a quick-filter for folder; now I don't know if this looks for PART or ALL the path (@Tim Curtis can comment...), but if you put them all under /Audiobooks, while you music under /Music, maybe it's possible to filter by folder...

ETA

Just checkd, my music is grouped at artist level under the first letter; using quick-filter "folder /Music/B" gives me exactly that: everything under /Music/B, so in your case "folder /Audiobooks" and "folder /Music" should lead to the initial desired functionality.

[Huebi]

Still i cant excliude classical from the rest, these are in the same samba share/folder