From eb614425096d27501dc8700d5c0e9943e77be88a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rasmus Steinke Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 04:40:25 +0100 Subject: adding listallinfo warning --- README.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2a488c5..0871ee0 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -64,3 +64,15 @@ the sticker database in very little time. So if you plan to use ratings, it's a good idea to have music_path option in config file. If your music is on a different machine just mount it locally. + +#### Finally a word on cached database +clerk highly depends on the ability to show albums/tracks in a formatted way. +Artist, album, track and date info must all be visible in a single line, otherwise +the filtering wouldn't work. +The only way to archive this is by using mpd's listallinfo command. +That command is evil and should not be used. Sadly there is no alternative. +The only issue that could arise in clerk is that it simply does not work. +If this happens to you, make sure to increase the command buffer size in +mpd config. +Hopefully someday mpd will offer an alternative for this, but I can't see +this happening anytime soon -- cgit v1.2.3-24-g4f1b