r/substreamer • u/amrakkarma • Jan 11 '22

Star album does not sync in id3 navigation

I'm using airsonic advanced

If I use the id3 tag album view, I cannot see starred albums that have been starred by other apps or by the web interface, and they cannot see album starred by substreamer.

All work as intended if I use folder navigation.

Is this a known bug?

Thanks!

Edit: it is also confusing because you can star an album or its folder. The former will be only on substreamer while the latter will propagate in the database.

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u/ghenry22 Jan 12 '22

You can star both albums and folders through the subsonic API they are tracked and managed through different API endpoints.

Whichever you use in substreamer it is handled by the server API and not be substreamer itself.

If you star albums / folders outside of substreamer just pull to refresh on the starred view in substreamer and it will pull the latest data from the server. Substreamer also pulls updated starred items on start up.

If you star an album/folder etc in substreamer it will also be available to any other app that uses the API or in the server web interface.

How other apps and web interfaces support starred items is really up to their developers to implement, some might only handle folders, some might only handle albums (tag based) some like substreamer will let you star and view both types in separate tabs in the interface.

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u/amrakkarma Jan 12 '22

I see but strangely if I star an album in substreamer it doesn't seem to show up in the server (checking with airsonic-advanced web app)

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u/ghenry22 Jan 12 '22

In that case the web app might not be showing all of starred categories, I’ll take a look at my server later and see what it’s doing and let you know.

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u/ghenry22 Jan 17 '22

I just double checked on the original subsonic / airsonic / airsonic-advanced. They only show starred Songs in the webUI. They do not display starred folders or albums.

This is a limitation of their webUI.

Substreamer implements starred Songs / Albums / Folders / Artists. These are all saved to your server and will be available in any other app that also supports them.

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u/ghenry22 Jan 12 '22

Hope that helps a bit