mpd has a support for maintaining extra meta tags for songs in a separate database called the sticker database, see User’s Manual — Music Player Daemon 0.22.4 documentation
Would be great if you could add this nice feature in MAFA too.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Favorites in MAFA can be regarded as items having the highest rating (5/5 in the common terms of ratings).
Stickers in MPD are currently limited only to songs (tracks) in the MPD db. Extra metadata can’t be attached to Albums or Artists.
That’s why the favourites feature in MAFA is implemented locally in the client, and not using stickers.
There is also no MPD approved standard for sticker semantics that different clients can share, so each client has its own stickers defined with different meanings.
Can you please describe a bit more what would you like the proposed song rating feature to be like, and how would it differ from the current Favorites feature?
The best results come with cantata (OK, it is a desktop app):
Thanks,
I’ll add it to the suggested features in the to-do list.
Thank you very much!
Hi Alex,
some Info’s about stickers database:
https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user.html#the-sticker-database
Add this line to “/etc/mpd.conf”:
sticker_file "/mpd.stickers"
The mpd.stickers file is a normal SQLite3 file with only one Table called “sticker”:
Value of 10=5 Stars, 9=4,5 Stars, 8=4 Stars,…
I don’t know if mpd protocol will give “mpd.stickers” infos directly or if you have to make a SQL command to get the ratings. But MPDroid is OpenSource (GitHub - abarisain/dmix: A modern MPD Client for Android.) and you can refer how they have implemented the Ratings.
Hi, thank. I’m aware of the sticker db and protocol. It’s just very limited and requires relatively a lot of work on the client side to implement for albums and other tags except for individual songs.
There are open issues for MPD to improve sticker support.
For know this feature request is in the to-do list but with low priority.