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Allow subsonic browse by folder structure
I'd like to request that browsing of a subsonic server be made possible by the folder structure instead of only tags.
The use case I'm running in to is that when multiple codec types(FLAC,MP3,etc) of an album exist on a subsonic server, browsing by tags currently makes it impossible to distinguish between them.
See here for API: http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp#getMusicFolders
I second this, also I think I should be able to see the subsonic contents inside my local library (as in sync after login just like in the Internet tab)
Oh yes please! I've sorted most of my music per local folders, having this in Clementine would be awesome!
My response to this on the original "Subsonic support" issue (here):
I originally implemented it in the way you describe, however it didn't fit with the feel of Clementine very well and didn't allow easy re-use of all the Clementine library functionality, e.g. filtering, configurable grouping, global search, etc. It might be possible to implement both models or a hybrid model and choose which model to show, however it's a much bigger task because of the lack of re-use. The current behavior is the most useful in my mind so I'd be inclined to let somebody else implement the other model if they wanted to. Perhaps submit it as a feature request for more focused discussion?
@thegr8brian It's not entirely infeasible to have two different implementations of Subsonic support, which you can choose between (but not use both at the same time), but it would take a chunk of work and it's not a priority for me personally. Out of interest, do all of the different versions of the same album still show up? Can you use the "File type" column to figure out which is which? If so, this isn't really a Subsonic-specific problem - I imagine you have the same problem with a local library.
@hemlockII What do you mean by seeing Subsonic contents inside your local library? All services on the "Internet" tab have their own libraries, the "Library" tab exists only for local folders that Clementine scans itself. This is how Clementine works. Having any kind of "unified library" would be a large architectural change.
:+1: for the feature request. The most obvious reason why (in my opinion) is for compilation albums, soundtracks, or other albums with multiple various artists. Here's a screenshot with the album "Nightmare Revisited" as example:
@alexfornuto This is what the "album artist" tag is for (assuming your music is tagged correctly).
Ahh, thanks! I'd still like this feature, for other groupings I make not based on artist or albums.
this would be a great improvement to access multiple subset of collection. Subsonic and Madsonic allow to browse different folders for different collections. I have as an example :
- a folder with soundtracks : album artist won't really do
- a folder with music by artist / album; album artist is good.
- a folder with only compilations: album artist does not do fine neither.
and again It is a nightmare without at least folder collection support if I want to shuffle only on soundtracks ( and no soundtrack genre will not do, as there might have some classical or other genre in soundtracks)
I agree. In my opinion, only being able to browse by artist is unusable if you have a large library. My library has nearly 10,000 artists and it's very hard to find stuff in a way that is logical to me without folder browsing.
Pretty please? I always end up having to use the browser instead of clementine :(
I just installed the application, disappointed there is no folder structure grouping.
