MediaServer: MediaDB
This backend is part of the stable distribution, but is still considered experimental. Changes are expected in the near future. Please keep in touch with the developers for more informations and see MediaDB-ng.
MediaDB MediaServer
This backend exposes the audio files in the filesystem, using a database (Sqlite db) as its backend, with ID3 tag support and cover art retrieval.
It serves cover art with the Album object, and keeps references to the MusicBrainz DB. It should not scan for files, but gets feeded with proper tagged ones via some import tool or/and allow imports via the web-UI.
Additional dependencies
Thsi backend depends on:
For the sqlite db handling:
For id3 tag extraction:
UPnP ContentDirectory structure
The content is exposed in the following tree layout:
- All
- Albums
- Artists
Configuration
The backend accepts these options:
- name:
- name of the media server, as exposed to the UPnP world (default: MediaStore?)
- medialocation
- path the root directory containing the audio files
- mediadb
- path to the SQLite DB data file
- coverlocation
- path to directory where to put the retrieved covers
Examples
Open Tickets for this backend (new...)
