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Symlinked multi-library breaks playlists (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 months ago by abies_exarchia@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/navidrome@discuss.tchncs.de
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Been using navidrome for years, and I'm excited about implementing multi-library support. I have a ton of music and I want to create a personal library that is only a subset of artists from the parent library. I don't want to copy the files (this would be hundreds of GB) so I symlinked artists folders. This works for the most part, however playlists do not. They show up in my personal library but are empty. I'm having a difficult time figuring out my options. Has anyone wrestled with this yet? Thanks!

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[-] abies_exarchia@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks so much for the thoughtful response. So m3u playlists actually do work, but they show up as duplicates in the playlist sidebar and one is populated and one isn't. The playlists I'm most interested in are the internal (db) playlists. As the admin, my user account should have access to both libraries. Maybe I should test with another user account.

move the song files to the new library

So, if my core music files are in dir /music/parent you're suggesting that I mv them over to /music/child?

I tried hardlinks earlier, and while they showed up in the child library and worked properly the playlists still didn't work. I'll keep messing around and update this post if I figure anything out. Thanks!

[-] abies_exarchia@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I tried it with another user that had explicit access to both libraries and still couldn't get it to work. If I create a playlist and add songs from the child library I cannot see those songs when the parent library is enabled, and vice versa. Of course when both libraries are enabled I can see the songs.

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