Sorting wav files by directory

@dnahman wrote:

Hi there,

I’m attempting to use mt-daapd to serve uncompressed wav files that I have ripped into a hierarchical directory structure:
/artist_name/cd_title/01-song-title.wav …

Is there any way to get mt-daapd to present this library sorted by artist and CD title like it does when you use mp3s with ID3 tags? Or am I looking at a code modification to make this work?

Any hints or pointers would be much appreciated
–David

That’s not something that can be done right now without a code change.

Hopefully, though, it will be possible in the future once there is a userspace plugin for custom tagging. Then you’ll be able to write a script to synthesize tag information based on path.

That’s post-1.0, though.

— Ron

@dnahman wrote:

It sounds like this script interface that you are talking about is something different than the metadata scanner interface mentioned in the wiki. Is that correct?

Correct. At some point, I want to have a plugin that will hand off tags to a user-written script (s-lang, probably) so the user can “fixup” tags before they get written to the db.

Presumably I could write my own directory based version of scan_get_xxxinfo() for *.wav files as well? I’ll take a look at the code and see how involved that would be.

Yup, that would do it. See scan-wav.c. You’ll need to dummy up the MP3FILE entries you want (artist, album, etc). Make sure strings are strduped, as they get freed later.

— Ron