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I've just spent the better part of an hour reading through the forums and I can't seem to find what I need, so here goes a post. I'd like to limit certain users to access only certain folders within Subsonic. A couple of examples would be 1) the ROKU I only want to use for video streaming and i don't want my 20k + songs showing up. 2) The grandparents would like access to my videos folder but don't need to see my music 3) Friends would like to listen to music but I would prefer they didn't access my videos.
At present i have everything in 2 master folders: MUSIC & VIDEO. What is the nest way too give a user access to one of these and not the other? All help is greatly appreciated.

Apparently this is not implemented at this time. I would love this feature too.

npinto59 wrote:I've just spent the better part of an hour reading through the forums and I can't seem to find what I need, so here goes a post. I'd like to limit certain users to access only certain folders within Subsonic. A couple of examples would be 1) the ROKU I only want to use for video streaming and i don't want my 20k + songs showing up. 2) The grandparents would like access to my videos folder but don't need to see my music 3) Friends would like to listen to music but I would prefer they didn't access my videos.
At present i have everything in 2 master folders: MUSIC & VIDEO. What is the nest way too give a user access to one of these and not the other? All help is greatly appreciated.

Well... this may or may not work, but you might be able to use if tests and limit the 'musicFolder' select box in the left.jsp

WARNING: PSEUDO-CODE

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<c:if test="${model.user.username eq 'grandma'}">
<script>
document.getElementById("musicFolder").value = "videos";
document.getElementById("musicFolder").disabled = true;
</script>
</c:if>

not sure if this will work though...

You can extend it to be choose statements instead...

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<script type="text/javascript">
<c:choose>
<c:when test="${model.user.username eq 'grandma' || model.username eq 'roku'}">
document.getElementById("musicFolder").value = "videos";
document.getElementById("musicFolder").disabled = true;
</c:when>
<c:when test="${model.user.username eq 'friend'}">
document.getElementById("musicFolder").value = "music";
document.getElementById("musicFolder").disabled = true;
</c:when>
</c:otherwise>
document.getElementById("musicFolder").disabled = false;
</c:otherwise>
</c:choose>
</script>