Re: modify library structure

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

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> So what I would like to have is something like:
>
> RYGEL/music/Album;All;Artist;Genre;Year
>            /classical/Album;All;Artist;Genre;Year
>            /kids/Album;All;Artist;Genre;Year
>            /radio/Album;All;Artist;Genre;Year
>
>
> or like this:
>
>
> RYGEL/music/music_all/Album;All;Artist;Genre;Year
>            /music/classical/Album;All;Artist;Genre;Year
>         ...

So you want a hybrid between directories and tag-based structure? It
could be done by code, but that looks like some amount of work.

That's not possible by configuration. It was somewhat possible to modify
the tag-based structure in some older version, but that didn't prove to
be very well-working.

> Best would be if for every seperate path I give in rygel.conf there 
> appears a seperate sub-library in the in the browser/tree.
>
> My question is if there is an easy way to achive this? Or where I have 
> to start  if I have to modify rygel to get this? Do I have to write an 
> own root container? Is this possible at all or is the tree structure 
> fixed by the upnp standard?

No, the tree has nothing to do with UPnP. It's something we/I decided,
but it's pretty common.

> How does the control points/browsers work with that? I mean e.g. 
> bubbleupnp (android) seems to show the full tree, rhytmbox as well, but 
> banshee seems to only show the "music" entry.

I think banshee does its own client-side filtering, so does e.g. Windows
Media Player.