Anyone using HQPD app?

[cat6man]

Hi Ales,

 

I have many thousands of albums, and the only way I can make sense of a library is with multilevel folders, i.e. classical, folk, rock. blues, etc.

Next level down for blues is the artist name.

Next level down for classical is Composers and Composers, under each is by artist name.

 

Any chance of having a by folder display of the music library?  That would clinch it for me.

I currently use bubbleupnp client on android, music on qnap nas with minimserver, and hplayerd (embedded) on ubuntu but that combo cannot seem to manage gapless playback.

 

Cheers

[cat6man]

Thanks Alex, the genre thing just doesn't work for me.  Case in point, I tried Roon and ran away screaming at the difficulty of using it with my large music collection.

 

A few more examples.  I can see a track being up to 8 levels down.

 

 

genre

---artist

-------studio albums

-------live albums

------------solo

------------group

------------big band

 

or

genre

----group

--------member 1 solo albums

--------member 2 solo albums

--------studio albums

--------live concerts

------------1960s

-------------------1965

---------------------------1965-02-14 New York

----------------------------------1st set

----------------------------------------track 1

----------------------------------------track 2

----------------------------------------etc

----------------------------------2nd set

----------------------------------------track 1

----------------------------------------track 2

---------------------------1965-07-04 Boston

---------------------------etc (5-20 concerts per year)

-------------------1966

-------------------1967

-------------------1968

-------------------1969

-----------1970s

-------------------1970

etc

 

[cat6man]

I would think so.  I'm using an old Nexus 7 on Android 6 and it is blazingly fast compared to bubbleupnp on my smartphone running the latest android.

 

I have a 5TB music library (uncompressed) and my library.xml file is around 9MB.

It syncs (only need to do this when library has changed) in less than a minute and navigation is very quick.

[cat6man]

by the way, in case anyone missed it, the app now let's you browse your music by directory/subdirectory.

outstanding (and really fast support from Alex)

[cat6man]

21 hours ago, Allan F said:

 

My music directory folders appear as follows on both my NAS and in HQPlayer:

M:

   >CD

   >DSD

   >Hi Res 

Each of the above has these sub-categories:

      >Blues-Jazz

      >Classical

      >Other

      >Pop-Rock

And each of the above is subdivided as:

         >Artist (alphabetically)

              >Album (alphabetically)

So, a typical entry might appear as M:\CD\Pop-Rock\Bob Dylan\Blonde on Blonde

 

Under 'Root of a library tree' in Settings of HQPDcontrol, I have 'entered "M:" However, in Dirs view of HQPDcontrol, at no level are the folders displayed in alphabetical order. Rather they appear as:

   >Hi Res

   >CD

   >DSD

Then

      >Blues-Jazz

      >Pop-Rock

      >Classical

      >Other

Most importantly,  at neither the Artists level nor the Albums level are the folders displayed in alphabetical order. Rather they are typically displayed as:

CD\Pop-Rock

    >Steve Earle

    >Dana Fuchs

    >Eagles

    >Jerry Garcia

    >Derek & the Dominos, etc.

 

This makes the Dirs view of little value below the four general genres because of the large number of folders at those levels. Is there any way for Dirs view to display the folders in alphabetical order the way they are displayed on both my NAS and in HQPlayer?

 

 

 

 

 

 

@allan,

 

i don't see this in my setup.  in Dirs view, everything is alphabetical

i see

Broadway

Classical

Country

Folk

....

 

Under Broadway, I see

Fiddler

Hair

Lion King

Wicked

 

I agree that if it were not alphabetical, it would be pretty useless but this works perfectly (and alphabetically) for me.

Something else must be going on in your set up.

It should work

[cat6man]

Ales & Jussi,

 

I do seem to have an issue that I do not understand.

I updated my music, then re-scanned and got a new library.xml and verified that the new music was there as seen in the library function in HQPlayer desktop.  However, when I synch your app, I don't see the new music that library.xml says should be there.

 

This happened (and confused me) once before.  Then, some combination of stopping/restarting HQPlayer desktop and/or hqplayer embedded solved the problem. 

 

Can you please elaborate on the sequence for updating library.xml so that the changes will be ready to be sync'd with the HQPD control?

[cat6man]

update:

it appears that i have to stop and restart hqplayerd in order for HQPDcontrol to sync with the new library.xml file

[cat6man]

I used to use an NAS but ran into issues with characters that hqp didn't like, so I moved everything to a usb drive on my NUC that runs hqp.............worth a try but I didn't have any problems with directory/subdirectory alphabetical ordering when I was on the NAS......just the issue with special characters in song titles, etc.

 

not sure what else could make our results differ

[cat6man]

1 minute ago, Allan F said:

 

Yes, but did HQPDcontrol support Dir view when you had the NAS? I have no problem with alphabetical display of directories and sub-directories in HQPlayer.

 

yes, i didn't use the app until it had directories

[cat6man]

fully agree, Ales did a great job and Dirs view gives me exactly what I needed

[cat6man]

On 2/18/2019 at 3:44 PM, cat6man said:

update:

it appears that i have to stop and restart hqplayerd in order for HQPDcontrol to sync with the new library.xml file

 

can anyone confirm that this is proper operation and that hqplayerd 'locks up' the library.xml file and therefore must be stopped in order to grab the updated library.xml file for re-sync with hqpdControl app?

[cat6man]

i'll have to check that and get back to you.

i was using HQPlayer Desktop to re-scan the content.

[cat6man]

On 2/22/2019 at 4:31 PM, Miska said:

 

Can you confirm it gets updated properly when browsing through the web interface? I assume you are re-scanning the content using the web interface. It should then get reflected through the web interface too. This same library content should end up in HQPDcontrol too when you select resync from HQPDcontrol menu.

 

 

i tried to re-scan from web interface but it seemed to take forever.

i had added one album to my /zNew Stuff/ subdirectory (contained about 100 albums).

 

i then re-scanned in hqplayer desktop, tried to re-sync with hqdpdcontrol and again did not see the new added album.

after stopping and restarting hqplayerd, re-sync with hqpdcontrol showed new album.