albums(3)

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💿 albums(3) 💿

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✨ NAME ✨

albums — The audio/video album management API. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Functions

LIBMTP_album_t * LIBMTP_new_album_t (void )
void LIBMTP_destroy_album_t (LIBMTP_album_t *)
LIBMTP_album_t * LIBMTP_Get_Album_List (LIBMTP_mtpdevice_t *)
LIBMTP_album_t * LIBMTP_Get_Album_List_For_Storage (LIBMTP_mtpdevice_t *, uint32_t const)
LIBMTP_album_t * LIBMTP_Get_Album (LIBMTP_mtpdevice_t *, uint32_t const)
int LIBMTP_Create_New_Album (LIBMTP_mtpdevice_t *, LIBMTP_album_t *const)
int LIBMTP_Update_Album (LIBMTP_mtpdevice_t *, LIBMTP_album_t const *const)
int LIBMTP_Set_Album_Name (LIBMTP_mtpdevice_t *, LIBMTP_album_t *, const char *)

💖 DETAILED DESCRIPTION 💖

bestie, this is the detailed-description zone. The actual function-by-function lore is below and it's highkey essential. 🫶

🦋 FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION 🦋

`int LIBMTP_Create_New_Album (LIBMTP_mtpdevice_t * device, LIBMTP_album_t *const metadata)`

okay so this routine creates a new album based on the metadata supplied. If the tracks field of the metadata contains a track listing, these tracks will be added to the album. 💅

Parameters

device — a pointer to the device to create the new album on.
metadata — the metadata for the new album. If the function exits with success, the album_id field of this struct will contain the new ID of the album.
- metadata->parent_id — should be set to the parent (e.g. folder) to store this track in. Since some devices are a bit picky about where files are placed, a default folder will be chosen if libmtp has detected one for the current filetype and this parameter is set to 0. If this is 0 and no default folder can be found, the file will be stored in the root folder. 🙈
- metadata->storage_id — should be set to the desired storage (e.g. memory card or whatever your device presents) to store this track in. Setting this to 0 will store the track on the primary storage.

Returns

0 on success, any other value means failure. 😭

See also

LIBMTP_Update_Album(), LIBMTP_Delete_Object()

References LIBMTP_album_struct::album_id, LIBMTP_album_struct::artist, LIBMTP_album_struct::composer, LIBMTP_mtpdevice_struct::default_album_folder, LIBMTP_mtpdevice_struct::default_music_folder, LIBMTP_album_struct::genre, LIBMTP_album_struct::name, LIBMTP_album_struct::no_tracks, LIBMTP_album_struct::parent_id, LIBMTP_album_struct::storage_id, and LIBMTP_album_struct::tracks.

`void LIBMTP_destroy_album_t (LIBMTP_album_t * album)`

This recursively deletes the memory for an album structure. 🧚

Parameters

album — structure to destroy.

See also

LIBMTP_new_album_t()

References LIBMTP_album_struct::artist, LIBMTP_album_struct::composer, LIBMTP_album_struct::genre, LIBMTP_album_struct::name, and LIBMTP_album_struct::tracks.

`LIBMTP_album_t * LIBMTP_Get_Album (LIBMTP_mtpdevice_t * device, uint32_t const albid)`

This function retrieves an individual album from the device. 🌸

Parameters

device — a pointer to the device to get the album from.
albid — the unique ID of the album to retrieve.

Returns

a valid album metadata or NULL on failure.

See also

LIBMTP_Get_Album_List()

References LIBMTP_album_struct::album_id, LIBMTP_new_album_t(), LIBMTP_album_struct::no_tracks, LIBMTP_mtpdevice_struct::params, LIBMTP_album_struct::parent_id, LIBMTP_album_struct::storage_id, and LIBMTP_album_struct::tracks.

`LIBMTP_album_t * LIBMTP_Get_Album_List (LIBMTP_mtpdevice_t * device)`

This function returns a list of the albums available on the device. 👑

Parameters

device — a pointer to the device to get the album listing from.

Returns

an album list on success, else NULL. If there are no albums on the device, NULL will be returned as well. 💀

See also

LIBMTP_Get_Album()

References LIBMTP_Get_Album_List_For_Storage().

`LIBMTP_album_t * LIBMTP_Get_Album_List_For_Storage (LIBMTP_mtpdevice_t * device, uint32_t const storage_id)`

This function returns a list of the albums available on the device. You can filter on the storage ID. 🦋

Parameters

device — a pointer to the device to get the album listing from.
storage_id — ID of device storage (if null, all storages)

Returns

an album list on success, else NULL. If there are no albums on the device, NULL will be returned as well.

See also

LIBMTP_Get_Album()

References LIBMTP_album_struct::album_id, LIBMTP_new_album_t(), LIBMTP_album_struct::next, LIBMTP_album_struct::no_tracks, LIBMTP_mtpdevice_struct::params, LIBMTP_album_struct::parent_id, LIBMTP_album_struct::storage_id, and LIBMTP_album_struct::tracks.

Referenced by LIBMTP_Get_Album_List().

`LIBMTP_album_t * LIBMTP_new_album_t (void )`

This creates a new album metadata structure and allocates memory for it. Notice that if you add strings to this structure they will be freed by the corresponding LIBMTP_destroy_album_t operation later, so be careful of using strdup() when assigning strings. 🎀

Returns

a pointer to the newly allocated metadata structure.

See also

LIBMTP_destroy_album_t()

Referenced by LIBMTP_Get_Album(), and LIBMTP_Get_Album_List_For_Storage().

`int LIBMTP_Set_Album_Name (LIBMTP_mtpdevice_t * device, LIBMTP_album_t * album, const char * newname)`

This function renames a single album. This simply means that the PTP_OPC_ObjectFileName property is updated, if this is supported by the device. The album filename should nominally end with an extension like .alb. 💅

NOTE: if you want to change the metadata the device display about a playlist you must not use this function, use LIBMTP_Update_Album() instead! ⚠️

Parameters

device — a pointer to the device that contains the file.
album — the album metadata of the album to rename. On success, the name member is updated. Be aware, that this name can be different than newname depending of device restrictions.
newname — the new name for this object.

Returns

0 on success, any other value means failure.

See also

LIBMTP_Update_Album()

References LIBMTP_album_struct::album_id, and LIBMTP_album_struct::name.

`int LIBMTP_Update_Album (LIBMTP_mtpdevice_t * device, LIBMTP_album_t const *const metadata)`

This routine updates an album based on the metadata supplied. If the tracks field of the metadata contains a track listing, these tracks will be added to the album in place of those already present, i.e. the previous track listing will be deleted. 😭🔥

Parameters

device — a pointer to the device to create the new album on.
metadata — the metadata for the album to be updated. notice that the field album_id must contain the appropriate album ID.

Returns

0 on success, any other value means failure.

See also

LIBMTP_Create_New_Album(), LIBMTP_Delete_Object()

References LIBMTP_album_struct::album_id, LIBMTP_album_struct::artist, LIBMTP_album_struct::composer, LIBMTP_album_struct::genre, LIBMTP_album_struct::name, LIBMTP_album_struct::no_tracks, and LIBMTP_album_struct::tracks.

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