[API Request] Album Collections

[certuna]

Proposal description

Playlists, but with album objects instead of song objects. Plex supports this, and there seems to be user demand for it.

If this is added, do we want to handle it 1:1 exactly like Playlists? Or do we like another structure?

Backward compatibility

• No backward compatibility impact.

API details

• new endpoints createAlbumCollection, deleteAlbumCollection, updateAlbumCollection, getAlbumCollection, getAlbumCollections
• new responses albumCollection, albumCollections, albumCollectionWithAlbums

[Tolriq]

We need to define first the proper API for http POST support. All APIs with large number of parameters via GET are dumb and reach limits easily.

[certuna]

Fair enough, we can revisit this topic when that part of the API is finalized.

[Tolriq]

A few server already have some support, just need to have them react :p #26

[jeffgt14]

Is the idea for Album Collections to also solve the age old "Box Set" problem? Would there be a way to tie an album collection back to an Artist so it's seen under the Artist view?

In the past, I've gotten by with folder browsing so that the Box Set shows up under the Artist and I can browse individual albums when I go into the Box Set.

Example below with the Iron Maiden 2017 - The Complete Albums Collection 1990-2015 Box Set