Ignore files/directories by name

[samoshit]

When I upload mp3 albums to my ftp server, it creates a directory similar this:

( 68M 16F - COMPLETE - Rock - VBR )

I'm sure some of you are familiar with it. Its created by sfv checking scripts. Anyways, I'd like to have Subsonic disregard it by matching *(*COMPLETE*)* or by regular expression.

Thanks.

[samoshit]

bump

[kf_man]

I would really like the capability as well. My specific usage is to block ".svn" directories as a portion of my music is checked into Subversion.

[mleinart]

+1 for this.

Here's the scenario for me - I run Subsonic on my home linux fileserver which serves the Macs on my network. Most of my music is organized nicely into directories like Artist-Album/. The problem is that Netatalk (Appletalk for Linux) creates new subdirectories in each of these directories called ".AppleDouble" to store metadata not supported by non-Apple filesystems. Within this directory will be tiny metadata files with the same names as in the music directory. It looks like this:

SomeArist-SomeAlbum/
SomeArist-SomeAlbum/.AppleDouble/
SomeArist-SomeAlbum/.AppleDouble/SomeArtist-01-Track1.mp3
SomeArist-SomeAlbum/.AppleDouble/SomeArtist-02-Track2.mp3
SomeArist-SomeAlbum/.AppleDouble/SomeArtist-03-Track3.mp3
SomeArist-SomeAlbum/.AppleDouble/SomeArtist-04-Track4.mp3
SomeArist-SomeAlbum/SomeArtist-01-Track1.mp3
SomeArist-SomeAlbum/SomeArtist-02-Track2.mp3
SomeArist-SomeAlbum/SomeArtist-03-Track3.mp3
SomeArist-SomeAlbum/SomeArtist-04-Track4.mp3

What happens then is that when I go into one of these directories and "Play All" or "Add All", Subsonic walks down the tree into the .AppleDouble directory and adds the metadata files as if they were music files. The web-player hangs on these and I'll need to manually skip to the first of the real files to play the album.

A similar problem happens when the directory contains album art - Subsonic will try and read the metadata jpg files instead of the real ones and I'll get broken images.


A simple "Exclude these files" option (globs or regex would satisify more people, but explicit names alone would fix my problem) would make me super happy.

thnx

[sindre_mehus]

Yeah, I agree - that would be useful and fairly simple to implement.

I can't promise anything, but I hope to add it in 3.7 or 3.8.

Thanks,
Sindre

[mleinart]

One more note:

I've noticed the problem with the .AppleDouble files is a lot more of an inconvenience in random mode. In random, every other file or so is an invalid .AppleDouble file so I'm constantly having to come back to the page to skip ahead in the playlist since these files just hang the player. I'm sure this is a problem for other scenarios needing this functionality as well.

[seitz]

Has this been added? It is definitely killing me now too

[gallyjh]

I'd like to bump this as well. It's pretty annoying to have to have a subsonic_exclude.txt in every directory where I have over 1000's of directories. Perhaps it would be nice if there was a global ignore? Maybe in the root subsonic_exclude.txt you make look like:

.svn g

and the 'g' would signify it to be global for all children directories?

[bigworm]

I need of this same thing..any progress?

When I upload mp3 albums to my ftp server, it creates a directory similar this:

( 68M 16F - COMPLETE - Rock - VBR )

I'm sure some of you are familiar with it. Its created by sfv checking scripts. Anyways, I'd like to have Subsonic disregard it by matching *(*COMPLETE*)* or by regular expression.

Thanks.

[ootuoyetahi]

I would like this to. Perhaps have it ignore any 0 byte file or folder.

[Gomez]

Same here, my collection would look better with ignore files / dirs.

[kitzingmarko]

+1

[bigworm]

Noticed 4.2 came out...any chance for this in 4.3?

[bigworm]

Bump for those who still want this!

Yeah, I agree - that would be useful and fairly simple to implement.

I can't promise anything, but I hope to add it in 3.7 or 3.8.

Thanks,
Sindre

[mustangman5l]

Yeah this would be nice. Upgraded to WHS 2011 and installed Drive Bender to replace DE. DB put it's duplicates in the same folder structure as the original file (i.e. it creates a duplicate folder). This is wreaking havoc on my collection...

BUMP!