I actually have already tried Ampache ; at the moment I find the Libresonic UI much more fluid and useable, so I'll stick with it. I might change at some point, but then I'll need some way to export data. This is where Beets comes in!
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 2:50 AM, Andy Pastuszak <apastus...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a side note, you should check out Ampache, another great music streaming > server, written in php that uses a LAMP stack, and heavily relies on > Musicbrainz tagging. Unlike Subsonic, Ampache is open source. > > Perhaps it might be worth it for the two projects to talk and find a way to > share info. > > Andy > > > On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 7:34:22 PM UTC-4, Adrian Sampson wrote: >> >> Woohoo! I'm glad that technique seems to be working. >> >> On Aug 16, 2016, at 6:38 PM, François-Xavier Thomas <fx.t...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the pointer! I'll add a PR to document this when I get to it. >> >> On the ~2000 starred songs I have, less than 1% don't match correctly >> now, mostly because some people put the same name on multiple songs in >> a single album. I should be able to do something about that. >> >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Adrian Sampson >> <adrian....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Yes, it is possible! The `lastimport` plugin is a good example: >> >> >> https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/master/beetsplug/lastimport.py#L215-L218 >> >> >> Basically, you can construct an object from the `dbcore.query` module and >> >> pass it to `lib.items` instead of a string. >> >> >> Adrian >> >> >> >> On Aug 15, 2016, at 5:01 PM, François-Xavier Thomas <fx.t...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> I quickly whipped together a working prototype in order to see if my idea >> >> works. >> >> >> I'm unclear about one thing. I'm doing something like this to match >> >> Subsonic media files with Beets' items : >> >> >> query = ( >> >> >> ... "artist:%s" % artist, >> >> ... "title:%s" % title, >> >> ... "album:%s" % album, >> >> ... ) >> >> >> matches = lib.items(query) >> >> >> >> Handcrafting a string query seems inefficient ; it also returns >> >> multiple results if a song title is a substring of another (e.g. >> >> "Song" and "Song (Instrumental)"), which is Not Good™. I didn't find >> >> an official way to directly query the Item model in the docs[0], is >> >> there any? >> >> >> [0] http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/api.html >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Adrian Sampson <adr...@radbox.org> wrote: >> >> >> Cool! Transitioning from Subsonic to a beets library seems like a common >> >> problem. >> >> >> I believe there are ID3 tags for both play count and star rating. There’s >> >> more about the rating tag in this thread: >> >> https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/122 >> >> >> At the moment, beets doesn’t support either, but this shouldn’t be a >> >> difficult change to make if you’re interested. In the mean time, you can >> use >> >> beets’s flexible attributes to store the data in the SQLite database >> without >> >> writing it to the files. >> >> >> These two attributes are exposed by the Subsonic API. The plan is to match >> >> the results with : >> >> >> 1) Filesystem path if possible (e.g. if Subsonic and Beets share a music >> >> collection) >> >> 2) Album/Artist/Title if there is only one result in the Beets database >> >> 3) Finally, user choice if there are multiple results >> >> >> >> This approach sounds great! >> >> >> Adrian >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> >> Google Groups "beets" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beets-users/_imCIAklSJU/unsubscribe. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> >> beets-users...@googlegroups.com. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> >> "beets" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> >> email to beets-users...@googlegroups.com. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> >> Google Groups "beets" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beets-users/_imCIAklSJU/unsubscribe. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> >> beets-users...@googlegroups.com. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "beets" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to beets-users...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "beets" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beets-users/_imCIAklSJU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > beets-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beets" group. 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