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janbar
Usage/instructions?
Hi, I just installed Noson on my Ubuntu laptop and successfully connected it to my Sonos. Thanks a lot for putting this together!
One thing I'm missing is some sort of guide on how to operate Noson. I'm a little confused by the interface (Is "This Device" my laptop or the Sonos? What's "My Index"?), and I haven't been able to figure out how to do some basic things like play local mp3s from my laptop.
Is there some sort of guide I'm missing? I didn't see anything like that on https://janbar.github.io/noson-app/ or this repo.
No guide exists, but I think to make it one.
- "This device" is your laptop. All the music files from the standard folder "Music" should be streamable to your sonos.
- "My index" is the musical index of the sonos. It exists if you have connected a share to your sonos to store music files.
- Finally you have to use the App like a mobil App: Flick, press, press long etc have a function like make as favorite, play the song, delete the song from queue, move the song in queue or playlist etc.
@janbar Ah, I see, thanks for such a quick response!
I don't have my music in ~/Music; is there a way to point it to another directory?
@janbar I have the same problem. I don't have my music in ~/Music.
Moving it over isn't an option either atm as it's a pretty huge library. :disappointed:
I will try to add a dialog to specify an other folder. It is quite simple but need testing... i.e entering "/" could cause a wide system scan ☠️
ln -s /path/to/giant/music/library ~/Music/giant_library worked great for me. But I didn't figure out to do that until I came here, so some additional documentation that ~/Music is the only indexed location would be very good.
Hi, I added some details about this feature in the README.md file. Enjoy.
About to let the user choosing the music location, it could be dangerous. Depending of the user entry the app could scan all the filesystem and then probably hang your PC because the scanner is powerful and use threading to scan files. The best way should be to do like @vellichor.
Thank you for writing a nice Linux app for us all!
I couldn't find this in the readme, or grepping through source, so I'll ask: is it possible to add non-sonos radio stations to some kind of list? I'm a big fan of radio caprice (they have dozens of offerings), but Sonos doesn't like them, and it would be nice to be able to bookmark them rather than looking up the IP address every time I want to listen to one.
How can I recompile Noson, which I have built from source, to use another location as the index point instead of ~/Music. I have thousands (about 15,000) files under ~/Music, which seems to be confusing Noson's indexer. Many of these files have no proper music ID header; others are duplicates except for the sound format and have duplicate headers. I would like to have Noson index another directory (say ~/Noson) and link only the files I want Noson to see into it. Which source files need to be modified?
