Mopidy-InternetArchive¶
Mopidy-InternetArchive is a Mopidy extension for playing music from the Internet Archive.
This extension lets you search for and stream recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by Internet Archive users. It also gives you access to a vast number of high-quality live recordings from the Live Music Archive, and thousands of free audiobooks from the LibriVox collection.
Browsing the Internet Archive¶
If your Mopidy client supports browsing, there should be a top-level
directory named Internet Archive. Beneath that, you will find the
Internet Archive collections listed in
internetarchive/collections
, and you should be able to
browse individual audio items (albums) and files (tracks) within
these.
For practical and performance reasons, the number of items that will
be shown within a collection is limited, e.g. you will not see all
167,967 audio items of the Live Music Archive 1. The
default configuration sets this limit to 100, but
this can be changed using internetarchive/browse_limit
.
To allow browsing collections using different sort criteria, every
collection provides a number of views, virtual subdirectories which
let you browse the collection’s items by popularity, title, publish
date, and so on. The default views are set up to resemble the
archive.org Web interface, but can be changed at your own discretion
with internetarchive/browse_views
.
Searching the Internet Archive¶
The Internet Archive only supports searching for items, but not for individual files or tracks. Therefore, only albums will show up when searching in Mopidy. This also means that only album-related search fields are supported, so searching for track names or numbers will yield no results from the Internet Archive.
The number and ordering of search results returned from the Internet
Archive can be changed with internetarchive/search_limit
and internetarchive/search_order
. Unless you explicitly
specify an Internet Archive collection to search within, search scope
will also be limited to the collections listed in
internetarchive/collections
.
Archive Favorites¶
If you have an Internet Archive account - also termed a Virtual
Library Card - you can access your Archive Favorites from Mopidy.
To do so, you just need to add the identifier of your favorites
collection to internetarchive/collections
. Typically, the
identifier is fav-{username}, but you should be able to figure it
out from the archive.org Web site. When added to
internetarchive/collections
, you will be able to browse and
search your Archive Favorites just like the other collections listed
there.
Footnotes
- 1
As of Jan. 9, 2017.