I am using this airsonic-advanced fork (which is probably the must active developed at the moment) which supports CD Albums in cuesheet format instead of split tracks.
The way it works is that it creates virtual tracks based on the cuesheets and hides the main flac (60+ minutes track).
I am using DSub and it is working as expected; however, in Symfonium I see both the virtual tracks and the main flac from the cuesheet album.
It seems that this flac is still indexed somehow even if it shouldn’t
Logs:
Upload description: Veda82
Additional information:
Under airsonic-advanced Settings → Media Folders there is a new option called “Hide virtual tracks”.
If it is enabled, the original album files (60+ minutes) are shown instead of the tracks created from the CUEsheet file.
Could it be that Symfonium is ignoring this setting?
You say you don’t want to see the track not me. If the track is visible it’s because the server returns it during the API calls.
One more time, client app can only make API calls and can only use defined API calls. There’s no calls to say hey please do not return those tracks under that specific setting only this server offers. So it’s up to the server to properly not return that track to clients.
Symfonium does not invent data, so the server did not filter the data, so the issue on the server side.
I am only trying to understand what is going on, I am not claiming Symfonium is inventing data or something like that.
As I told you, in DSub I am not seeing those tracks, which is the same behavior I see in Airsonic Advanced web interface.
You claim that if I search in DSub it will “probably” show those tracks, I have tried again but I do not see those, that is why I was asking more informations to understand if I was looking correctly (again, to try to understand what is going on).
I am politely asking support (BTW, I also paid for the full version of the App since I like it very much) and it seems that it is you that do not believe what I am saying and dismissing what I am reporting.
BTW, did you even had a look at the provided logs to see if there is something than can help?
So maybe just maybe you may want to try to read what I write instead of repeating the same thing ?
I said that DSub would show the track if it used search3, it probably don’t.
I have looked at the logs but since you do not give the name of the tracks I can’t show you what happens.
But again I know how things works, Symfonium displays the data that the server sends and there’s no API parameter specific to that server to trigger or not a filter of the returned data.
So can you read again that sentence and tell me what part you do not understand so we can move on?
I can’t be more clear, there’s nothing in the API related to that server unique internal behavior, if the track ends up in Symfonium it’s because the server have returned it.
BTW you can try to enable the compatibility mode that may workaround that server bug. (Yeah I know DSUB works so it’s not a server bug)
if i may butt in here, I think the term that is being lost in this is “endpoint”. if my understanding is accurate, an endpoint is a specific access point the server uses for handling data and resources for the API calls that apps make. each endpoint has a specific format/purpose that’s meant to be standardised for the ecosystem to be able to function together.
there are different ones that can be used for similar purposes but are not the same, and airsonic-advanced is apparently misconfigured wrt some of these, as with the play count issue linked here earlier. that was my problem with airsonic-advanced. i moved to navidrome because of it.
i think the reason some issues pop up with Symfonium but not other apps is because Symfonium makes better use of the particulars of the differences between these endpoints (like how it can display song metadata for online radios which no other subsonic client ive found for android can do), for which it needs to use more “niche”(?) endpoints, which are more likely to be mishandled.
(i welcome anyone to let me know if anything ive said is incorrect btw.)
i hope this clears things up a bit. sorry about the issue you’re having, Veda. airsonic has some nice features, but it can be really frustrating too.
@rxci Thanks for trying to clear things up, I will try to dig more into the matter.
@Tolriq It seems to me you are taking it personally. I do not think I have insulted you or said that you don’t know your stuff. I will try this compatibility mode, and eventually move to another app.
BTW, I also opened a ticket on that github fork as well, at the time I was not assuming that the problem was with Symfonium; then I tried DSub and since I was not seeing the same issue, I asked for support here as well.