Moode: Can Moode library be based on just part of a USB drive?

[Ron L]

I've been using Moode Audio for several years using music that's stored on a separate Raspberry Pi accessed as a NAS via Samba (SMB) as RASPBERRYPI.local/mybook/Music. For the first time, I tried using a USB drive plugged into the Moode Raspberry but found that Moode indexes the entire USB drive to create the library. Since I can limit a NAS drive to a specific folder, I thought I could do the same with a directly attached USB drive, but it appears that I'm wrong. It would be good to be able to index just part of the USB drive since I saw a post saying that Moode can actually be used as a file server for that USB drive, but I just want Moode to look at the Music folder and not all the other folders on the USB drive. Is that possible?

Thanks.

 

[Tim Curtis]

Locally attached USB drives are scanned/indexed for audio format files (FLAC, MP3, DSF, AIFF etc) . Are there non-audio-format files on the drive that are being indexed?

 

[Ron L]

Non-audio files on USB drive were not indexed into the library ... but Moode searched through the entire drive looking for audio files, and that takes time. Furthermore, some of the folders on the drive were not my main Music folder but they had guitar instruction files, including mp3 files, that I did not want indexed into the Moode library but they were indexed anyway. I would just like to be able to designate the folder(s) to be indexed on the USB drive just as I can do for NAS drives. Tim - thanks for helping with this question!

 

[Tim Curtis]

There is no built in equivalent to network shares for locally attached USB drives but MPD provides a way to exclude folders from indexing.

Create an empty file named .mpdignore in each top-level folder that you want to exclude. Theres no need to create the file in each sub-folder. Note that the dot prefix specifies that its a hidden file in Linux. To see it in directory listings use the -a option for the ls command.

 

[Ron L]

Thanks! .mpdignore sounds like a solution.

 

[Tim Curtis]

You will need to add a line to the file containing a single asterisk *. This is the wildcard character meaning ignore everything.

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