Music Library Index

Given track metadata objects, constructs a searchable object model. This module is used both in the client and the server of Groove Basin.

Features

• Sort order ignores 'a', 'an' and 'the' in artists, albums, and names.
• Sorting and searching is case insensitive and diacritics-insensitive.
• Searching uses word-based filtering (this is how most music player applications implement filtering) on all track fields.
• Distinguishes albums by name, date, and album artist.
• Produces these indexes:
  • Artists in sorted order
    • For each of these artists, albums in sorted order.
      • For each of these albums, tracks in sorted order.
  • Albums in sorted order
    • For each of these albums, tracks in sorted order.
  • Tracks by user-defined key.
  • Artists by library-defined key.
  • Albums by library-defined key.
• Searching allows the use of special constructs:
  • Quoted terms ("...") exactly match every character, including spaces, upper- and lower-case letters, and characters with diacritics. Inside quotes, use \" for a literal quote and \\ for a literal backslash.
  • Terms starting with not: match anything not matched by the rest of the term. For example metal not:metalica or just not:"Justin Bieber".
  • Parentheses can be used to group terms. For example tool not:(opiate live).
  • Use or:(...) to match any of the terms in the parentheses. For example or:(chopin mozart bach). Use further nested parentheses to return to "and"-style matching. For example or:(chopin mozart (johann sebastian bach)).

Usage

var MusicLibraryIndex = require('music-library-index');
var library = new MusicLibraryIndex();

library.addTrack({
  key: "Anberlin/Never Take Friendship Personal/02. Paperthin Hymn.mp3",
  name: "Paperthin Hymn",
  artistName: "Anberlin",
  albumName: "Never Take Friendship Personal",
  year: 2005,
  genre: "Other",
  track: 2,
  albumArtistName: "Anberlin",
});

library.addTrack({
  key: "Anberlin/Never Take Friendship Personal/08. The Feel Good Drag.mp3",
  name: "The Feel Good Drag",
  artistName: "Anberlin",
  albumName: "Never Take Friendship Personal",
  year: 2005,
  genre: "Other",
  track: 8,
  albumArtistName: "Anberlin",
  label: {"favorites_id": 1},
});

library.rebuildTracks();

library.addLabel({
  id: "favorites_id",
  name: "favorites",
});

library.rebuildLabels();

console.log(library.artistList[0]);
console.log(library.trackTable);

Tests

  basic index building
    ✓ trackTable 
    ✓ artistList 
    ✓ albumList 
    ✓ searching 

  compilation album
    ✓ filed in various artists 

  tracks from same album missing year metadata
    ✓ still knows they're in the same album 

  different albums with same name
    ✓ detects that they are different 

  album with a few tracks by different artists
    ✓ only creates one album 

  album by an artist
    ✓ should be filed under the artist 

  album by an artist
    ✓ sorts by disc before track 

  album artist with no album
    ✓ shouldn't be various artists 

  unknown artist, unknown album
    ✓ should be put into the same album 
    ✓ searching should not affect anything 

  album with album artist
    ✓ shouldn't be various artists