Multiple libraries
I am ripping my CDs to folders on a NAS drive, which is accessed from my Node X using the Android app. I have folders for Pop, Jazz etc with subfolders in each by artist and then subfolders of those for each album.
If I want to play some jazz music I want to browse through the jazz artists. I don't want to see Coltrane (jazz) next to Coldplay (pop), for example. Otherwise one single list of artists will be huge.
I would like to create multiple libraries, one for each type of music. This could either be by having one share going to MyNAS\Pop and another to MyNAS\Jazz (so multiple shares, each with one library), or by having a mechanism to set up multiple libraries on one share. It would be a bonus to be able to allocate each library a friendly name too. Then on the Home screen I could select each library just like I can select from a list of radio stations etc
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Oops! I just tried it again and it does indeed work. When I tried before, the Genre > Artist and Genre > Album views seemed to be exactly the same as the standard Artist and Albums views, with everything shown. Now it does seem to be showing just the correct artist and albums. Maybe they changed/fixed it in one of the recent updates.
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.... Or just use the "genre" when you're tagging the files.
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In general the idea of different libraries is good. I have a different use case. I have 2 librraries. One with musik and one with audiobooks. When I shuffle the play, it makes no sense to add here audiobook files.
The idea with the 2 librraries is, wenn I select the music library, everything is like today, But when I select the audiobook library, I have some additional functions and some function that I never need.
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I've been using it now for nearly two years and am up to 33,000 tracks. I STILL think having an option for at least one more library would be good. The Genres is OK but it means my main Artists, Album, Songs views are combinations of Classical works and the others. Having two libraries would be so much better.
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My son has a completely different taste of music. Creating a separate partition on a NAS does not solve the "problem", since his and my Nodes are on the same network and share their indexes. Some time ago I started a little homemade project to create a 2nd subnet in our home. Using a cheap Cudy WR3000 ( 30-40 € @ Amazon) router running OpenWRT, as a client on the primary network (Fritzbox), and a series of traffic rules result in a separation of libraries without loosing the ability to control each Node from the primary network. Of course the multiroom feature doesn't work anymore but never was important for us. It is still work in progress but the results are satisfactory for now.
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Long ago there was a streamer by the company called Simple Audio, the App had “users” and each user could select which network share(s) the “user” wanted to view / play.
It was great as I setup shared directories like POP, Rock, R&B, cheesy Pop, Christmas etc. I could then say select Christmas during December and de-select it again in January. All without removing shares or reindexing. It removed “clutter” from my library without impacting other users.
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Controlling a Node on a subnet2 with the controller on the subnet1 (over wifi between subnets) seems to be almost impossible with regular consumer routers (no support for vxlan). A very useful addition to the controller app to help solve this could be the possibility to enter an ip address in the controller app to connect to a client on another subnet without the need of discovery and multicast. It probably is a big ask, but it would make the separation of libraries much easier. ( unless there already is a way of addressing available in the app that we don't know of?)
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To be honest, I think the idea of having different IP addresses so that different Nodes can access different libraries is a very specific solution to this problem. It only applies where different users have their own Node and only want to see their own music. A much more general solution would be to have more than one library accessible from the controller app so that people who want to separate music from podcasts or audio books or by genres (or seasonal music) could do so. It would still solve your problem as the "Most Used" section on the main app screen would still show just your own library but would make it much easier for other cases too.
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@Graham,
Of course you are absolutely right, it's because I don't care (much) about multiroom that I was looking for this specific solution. In an ideal world your description of the library structure would be perfect. I'm aware this is too much to ask from Bluesound, seeing they are already struggling to get the controller out of beta. I was suggesting the ip address solution as an intermediary, quick, step towards a more general solution, without any consequences for other users. I can only hope that Bluesound will add this request to the stack of the other requests to make the system more polished.
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