Hey community! In the recent days, I’ve run to a number of dead-ends trying to view and navigate my music collection through Mopidy. At first, I thought the issue might be the Front-end I’m using, but now after comparing a bunch, it seems the problem might be in the core of Mopidy/MPD itself. For …

You can see the fields we currently support in our data model documentation . There is a last modified field: last_modified Integer representing when the track was last modified. Exact meaning depends on source of track. For local files this is the modification time in milliseconds since Unix epoc…

Hey @kingosticks ! Thanks for the swift reply and insights ( once again! )! Hmm, the ‘last modified’ would do the job pretty closely actually! Thanks for pointing me towards the data model docu. And actually, now that I look closer, when I sort my files with Nautilus, or CLI even, the field I’m alw…

[image] 01tot10: What do you mean with configurable directory functionality exactly? It has a configuration option which allows you to add custom stuff to the browse list: local/directories : List of top-level directory names and URIs for browsing. The default value (below) has two option…

Actually, I’ve just realised that Mopidy-MPD doesn’t output the Last-Modified field in it’s track info so even if you found an MPD client with true support for it, it wouldn’t work with Mopidy. That’s pretty easy to fix if someone was interested in doing so. EDIT! I am going mad, all of the above i…

Hey @kingosticks Thanks for your insights again! Re: configurable directory functionality: Oh, yeah now I get it! We are talking of the “Browse” options and it’s features. Thanks for pointing out it’s customizable as well, I never tweaked ‘local’ really, and hadn’t realized the directories are al…

I think that workaround should work OK but I see Iris has implemented something now anyway. Exposing an album last modified field is a bit abstract, where would we stop? Artist last modified? Genre last modified? Like mpd (the program), everything revolves around tracks. So while we could work out t…

Hey @kingosticks ! Yes, the Iris team has answered to my prayers and actually implemented album sort based on 'last_modified" as given by the tracks inside the albums! Soooooo gooooood! So yes, the work-around is pretty much a solution. Also, I agree with your reasoning on ‘where to stop’. But I do…

I’ll revive this old topic, since I’m still puzzled with Mopidy’s logic when it comes to sorting albums. This post is a bit of a ramble due to my underlying confusion, so try to bare with. The topic raised it’s head again due to my Bandcamp Wishlist, as returned by mopidy-bandcamp, gets listed in a…

Mopidy’s current Track model has a date field and also a last_modified field. The former is the release date, the latter is backend-specific and maybe could be used as you want (if it isn’t already, not checked). We could also add a new date_added field to our Track model. But that’s (probably) onl…

Hey @kingosticks , Thanks again for your insights, they’ve been really helpful along the way, not only in this specific case. Regarding the Track-model - Yes, that seems to be the most complete model in use. More specifically, the last_modified field serves the purpose most accurately. Generally, I…

Mopidy/MPD - Sort albums by Date Added?

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Matthias_Meulien October 20, 2023, 2:18pm 14

@kingosticks I confirm the limitation for the artist model. I tried to report this limitation in Retrieving artist details from an artist ref through HTTP API

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Mopidy/MPD - Sort albums by Date Added?

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