Question/suggestion about media parsing

[wasspaul]

I have succeed in getting the experimental branch up and running. Thanks for making this available.
Now that its working I have started to place some media on to the system. In particular, I would like to add my reasonable sizable music collection. Currently it is arrange in a hierarchical fashion.
Artist1
Album1
Song1
Song2
Album2
Song1
Song2
Artist2
.....

Best I can see the current system does not support this structure. A very large flat list of songs seems impractical to me (which I think is the current implementation).
Is it possible to support the above structure (certainly for music) but I also think this type of structure would be beneficial for all media types.

In addition, I think all media classes would benefit from not requiring corresponding images for each piece of media. If they exist sure use them. If they don't just show the files name.

I tried to figure out how to implement the above and am certainly not there yet. My best guess is a significant modification to the file
media.py which in turn would generate a new media.json. Does this seem correct? Is all that you think is needed?

Once again thanks for creating and releasing this project.

[wasspaul]

Sorry the hierarchy structure failed to render correctly above
try 2

Artist1
----Album1
-------------Song1
-------------Song2
----Album2
-------------Song1
-------------Song2
Artist2
.....

Slightly better hopefully clearer

[Jstudner]

This is actually the same layout I use in my jellyfin server. I am working on it for the bigger nomad, but right now its not an easy fix for the normal one. I am going to take a crack at it, music shouldn't be too hard to have like that. I defiantly see the appeal, original this wasn't meant to have any fancy sorting since it was a quick little project but now that there is so much interest I am probably just going to add support for the structure and metadata for plex and jellyfin (so you can literally just copy it over)

Ill keep you posted on the music part, shouldn't be too hard to update the json creation logic to support that layout, but I also need to edit the frontend if you want to sort by those options. I might actually do this soon though, I have a way of getting myself distracted for good feature ideas haha

[Jstudner]

I am going to mess with it a little longer, but the frontend doesn't sort well using this layout. I can get the backend to support three layers of folders, but the frontend keep freaking out sorting them. I am making some changes though, I will have loop and shuffle, and I am going to add some level of playlist support since I can do that. (so one level of subfolder, the main page is still all songs, but there is a menu with the subfolders that can each be played separate like albums.) its not a perfect solution but it would be a big improvement. on the big nomad I will get the full support.

(also I spent like half the day yesterday on this so there is totally a chance I was doing something stupid and it just starts working so I do full support anyway)

[wasspaul]

Thanks for all your work on this.

[Jstudner]

My pleasure!

[Jstudner]

Glorious news, I got this working with the new indexing system. the songs page needs a ton of clean up, but you can now have /music/artist/album directories, they also support songs at any level so you can use them how you see fit (you can have /playlist 1 and /artist/album on the same system)

Will update again when I actualy publish the update

[wasspaul]

That is good to hear. Thanks for your efforts. I think this change will make Nomad more usable for people with sizable music collections. I am looking forward to trying this out.