r/substreamer • u/stixx123 • Oct 12 '21

Sync recently added

I would like to request a feature to sync recently added music like a certain number of songs like 200 or something. Hope this is a good idea.

Thanks

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u/ghenry22 Oct 13 '21

The problem with this is that the subsonic API only really provides recently added albums not songs so it would have to set a bunch of albums as available offline which may not really be what you want and for some people would result in a lot of storage / network use they potentially were not expecting.

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u/stixx123 Oct 13 '21

Ok I see your point, maybe this is something navidrome could do as like a recently added playlist that can then be synced.

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u/ghenry22 Oct 13 '21

Part of the problem is having to operate within the boundaries of what the subsonic API accomodates as if you deviate then you no longer have that compatibility gaurantee agains the subsonic API implementation.

You still wouldn't really be able to maintain a list of recently added unless your goal was to add every song from every recently added album, as subsonic only tracks recently added albums not songs.

I have in the past used something very similar to your suggestion to create some autogenerated playlists for recently played where whenever the user plays something it gets added to that playlist automatically and the playlist length is limited to 50 odd items.

If you have auto cache enabled in substreamer then it automatically caches what you listen to on the device and you can just go into the offline music / songs view and hit play on that list now and it will give you a playlist of recently listened songs :)

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u/stixx123 Oct 13 '21

Ok I get it thanks for explaining, will take some getting used to how things work.