Restrict library to one folder

SawaFish

Can anyone help me figure out how to restrict RuneAudio to one specific folder on my external HDD?

I've hooked up an external HDD with 3 partitions, ideally I want RuneAudio to only use one specific folder in 1 partition for its music library. This is because I have both FLAC and MP3 versions of all my music, which makes my library rather large, and the updating takes forever...

I'm using a Raspberry Pi, the HDD is formatted with two exFAT and one HFS partition. I want to use a folder, and subfolders, on one of the exFAT partitions.

ACX

Hi SawaFish,
why don't you mount only that specific folder instead on the whole drive? You can specify the path in the "Remote directory" field.
Another option is to drop a file named .mpdignore in every folder you want to exclude from indexing.

RockOn_23

Hi,

I am trying Rune audio since 20 min

Thank you for this great piece of software.

I am using a quite huge external USB HDD with constantly changing content (even on the top level) and unfortunately a lot of non music audio files. Working with .mpdignore is not possible (as far as I understood it) because even on my hdd top level I have constantly new folders.

Is there a way to include only specific USB mount folders (/music and /audiobooks) in the database update instead of the whole hdd? There is no configuration in the web GUI (like "Remote directory" field for Network mounts). Maybe be editing some symbolic links etc.?

Thanks a lot
Kr
Benjamin

hondagx35

Hi Benjamin,

There is no configuration in the web GUI (like "Remote directory" field for Network mounts).

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Frank

RockOn_23

Hi Frank,

But it only influence the NAS mount, not the USB HDD?!

Kr
Benjamin

waves

Not sure if it works, but maybe worth a try.

I use mhddfs to make files from multiple usb SD devices show up as one mount point. Perhaps it can be used to similarly unify multiple mounts from one drive into one mount point. Read this thread for some details
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hondagx35

Hi Benjamin,

But it only influence the NAS mount, not the USB HDD?!

sorry i missed USB in your question.

What you can do is:
- turn off usb auto mount on the settings page
- mount your usb hdd via fstab manually
* use the UUID from your hdd, see here
* mount it on /mnt/MPD/LocalStorage or /mnt/MPD/USB

Frank

RockOn_23

Hi,

thanks for your help.

Despite my limited linux knowledge I found a way to manage it manually via the command line. Maybe you can assist me to incorporate it in the USB auto mount config (??).

first I unmounted the USB HDD

umount /dev/sda1

created a new directory and mounted it there

mkdir /mnt/MPD/myhdd
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/MPD/myhdd

finally I created symbolic links to my /audiobooks and my /music folder into /mnt/MPD/USB

ln -s /mnt/MPD/myhdd/audiobooks/  /mnt/MPD/USB/
ln -s /mnt/MPD/myhdd/music/  /mnt/MPD/USB/

and rebuild the mpd library. This seems to today exactly what I needed. I just see these two folders in rune (and not the many others from my hdd).

Is there a problem with this method? Is there maybe a way to incorporate something like

"first automount all drives plugged into the USB (like implemented now)" and then "if (LABEL="HDD_extern" and UUID="04901BFF901BF5C0"){do all steps mentioned before}")

automatically in the automount config (or somewhere else)?

Kr
Benjamin