better folder access and post tidarr copy process scripting

[c4ddy]

hello,

one thing I would really appreciate is the ability to have albums go to a different folder outside of the downloads folder. for example I have a Music folder that is my main library, and I have a playlists folder that is different and outside the music folder. so downloading albums should go direct to my music folder and playlists/mixes should go directly to my playlist folder. right now we are limited to only what is inside the download folder. i have a script that i have to run once things are downloaded the copy files to the right location. and then prompts a navi scan through the navi api

which leads to the second part, post tidarr scriptin. once tidarr has copied the file to its final location having the ability to run a script. in this case it would be once the files actually show up in the download folder running a script from that time.

does that make sense? questions?

[cstaelen]

Hi @c4ddy

Thanks for sharing your ideas 👍

1. Different folders per content type

You should be able to mount an external volume directly on the playlist subfolder.
IMO, this should work :

services:                                                            
  tidarr:                                                            
    volumes:                                                         
      - /path/to/music:/music                                        
      - /path/to/external/playlists:/music/playlists  # Override just playlists                                                           

This way albums go to /path/to/music and playlists go to
/path/to/external/playlists/ (your external folder).

2. Navidrome scan

Navidrome seems to watch regularly the library folder and auto-refreshes
when new files appear. If that's working for you, you probably don't
need to call the API manually. Or I missed something ?

3. Post-download scripting

There is already a feature exists.
Create a custom-script.sh file in your shared/ directory:

#!/bin/bash                                                                                 
# Available variables: ITEM_TYPE, PROCESSING_PATH, ITEM_URL                                 
                                                                                            
echo "Processing $ITEM_TYPE from $ITEM_URL"                                                 
                                                                                            
# Example: do something specific for playlists                                              
if [ "$ITEM_TYPE" = "playlist" ]; then                                                      
  # Your custom logic here                                                                  
fi                                                                                          

The script runs after download, before files are post-processed and moved to the final location.
The custom script is runned inside the tidarr container.
Depending your needs, maybe it could be helpful.

Check out Custom processing script for more details.

[c4ddy]

I have tried messing with the docker volumes but docker has problems with different mounts inside a parent.

example:

volumes:                                        
      - /path/to/downloads:/downloads
      - /path/to/playlist:/downloads/playlists
      - /path/to/music:/downloads/albums  # Override just playlists

With that example above docker doesnt mount at least one of the mounts below because they are inside the parent mount of downloads. it will do one of them either playlists or albums but not both. usually ignores the first mount below the parent and applies the second one.

as for the scripts. the custom script works inside the process folder where everything is processed and that is fine. but then after the custom script tidarr then copies the music from the process folder to the download folder.

once of my work arounds was just to create a script that would post process and copy the files to music folder or playlists folder depending on its location as a custom script. but it doesnt work because it is in the process folder when the custom script is run. then tidarr copies it.

for some reason I cant get navidrome to detect changes and auto scan on change, i can set a cron with navidrome but I dont want it running ever 12 hours but also dont want it running every 5 minutes. when my wife downloads music it needs to show up for her right away(within minutes) other wise she won't use it because she isnt going to bug me whenever she does that.

hopefully i am a little clearer in my response.

thanks for your assistance.

[cstaelen]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

A PR is on the go to add Navidrome update feature #615
It will be shipped in cstaelen/tidarr:prerelease soon. 👍

Regarding the docker volumes, I did not try before, maybe you can create a symbolic link ln -s /external/path/playlists /music/library/playlists and restart the container ?

I will investigate this point.

[cstaelen]

I'm thinking about extending the custom script feature to have the ability to write a custom-post-script.sh.
Which will be executed after files have moved.
It could receive the path of the previously moved item for any custom processing step.

We could keep playlists and mixes downloading in /music/playlists and write in custom-post-script.sh :

if [ "$ITEM_TYPE" = "playlist" ]; then                                                      
    mv /music/playlists/* /playlists
fi     

with

volumes:
  - ...
  - /external/path/to/playlists:/playlists

wdyt ?

You can test it by pulling cstaelen/tidarr:testing and add the custom-post-script.sh in the root of config folder.

[cstaelen]

custom-post-script.sh and Navidrome scan is now available in 1.1.7.

[c4ddy]

Amazing thanks for this.