After much searching I have a work around to get Raspberry Pi to use MM library. Since my main listening is classical music the usual player offerings are pretty useless at categorising music as I wish, so I cannot rely on player on Pi to build a decent catalogue.
Issue - I need (say) Clementine audio player on Pi to use MM library categorisation (MMW running on Windows PC) for a large collection (over 9,000 files) held on a NAS, in various file formats, etc. MM set up with an album title for each work or group of works eg "Bach, JS: BWV 246 St Luke Passion"
1 - I added the MM extension Export/Create Playlists for Child Nodes (from
http://solair.eunet.rs/~Ezvezdand/Expor ... bNodes.htm)
2 - Select all (or subset of) albums in MM
3 - Use extension to create playlists for each (selected) album (all 919 files saved on the NAS)
4 - Mount the NAS which contains all the music files on the Pi - so that is now on the Pi as "/home/pi/WDMyCloud/Public/Shared Music"
5 - I used a neat (free) program called fnr (from
https://findandreplace.codeplex.com/) to bulk replace the NAS file path in the playlist files with the Pi path as noted in step above
6 - Then copied all the playlist files from NAS to Pi (/home/pi/Music). So now have for example a playlist file called "Bach, JS- BWV 246 St Luke Passion.xspf" on Pi
7 - Then get Clementine audio player on Pi to look at files in this folder - result is list of albums as per MM library
After much searching I have a work around to get Raspberry Pi to use MM library. Since my main listening is classical music the usual player offerings are pretty useless at categorising music as I wish, so I cannot rely on player on Pi to build a decent catalogue.
Issue - I need (say) Clementine audio player on Pi to use MM library categorisation (MMW running on Windows PC) for a large collection (over 9,000 files) held on a NAS, in various file formats, etc. MM set up with an album title for each work or group of works eg "Bach, JS: BWV 246 St Luke Passion"
1 - I added the MM extension Export/Create Playlists for Child Nodes (from http://solair.eunet.rs/~Ezvezdand/ExportM3UsForSubNodes.htm)
2 - Select all (or subset of) albums in MM
3 - Use extension to create playlists for each (selected) album (all 919 files saved on the NAS)
4 - Mount the NAS which contains all the music files on the Pi - so that is now on the Pi as "/home/pi/WDMyCloud/Public/Shared Music"
5 - I used a neat (free) program called fnr (from https://findandreplace.codeplex.com/) to bulk replace the NAS file path in the playlist files with the Pi path as noted in step above
6 - Then copied all the playlist files from NAS to Pi (/home/pi/Music). So now have for example a playlist file called "Bach, JS- BWV 246 St Luke Passion.xspf" on Pi
7 - Then get Clementine audio player on Pi to look at files in this folder - result is list of albums as per MM library